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RiverREM - Generating River Relative Elevation Model (REM) Visualisations
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github.com/OpenTopography/Rive <-- shared GitHub repository
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opentopography.github.io/River <-- shared documentation
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opentopography.org/blog/new-pa <-- shared Open Topography blog post about RiverREM
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H/T Heidi Luchsinger / Open Topography
[this post should not be considered as an endorsement of this product aka caveat emptor]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #Python #LiDAR #RiverREM #visualisation #hydrology #water #river #rivervalley #floodplain #terraces #GitHub #opensource #opendata #DEM #REM #model #modeling #RiverRelativeModel #documentation #tutorial #learning #tool #elevation #raster #sinuosity #drainage

I have released a new version of the #Moodle #Wordselect quiz question type. This release is to confirm compatibility with Moodle 5.0 and it also fixes a minor bug.

Wordselect is a very easy to use question type that allows a teacher to create text where one or more words are indicated to be the correct answers. The student can select one or more words and is marked according to if they are correct.

moodle.org/plugins/qtype_words

moodle.orgMoodle Plugins directory: Word SelectA very easy to use "select the words" Moodle question type.

After I started my first #IT job (and created my Digital Ocean VPS at that time) I decided to create kind of character card for myself, like in #RPG, for writing down my #sysadmin skill levels and progress. I did it in Postgres, probably because database container was one of first things I had on my VPS then.

I created slightly complex system of arbitrary skill and knowledge points, trying hard to not overestimate my skill levels. Like in standard games there are bigger gaps between higher levels and separate "overall sysadmin level" with own points, indirectly dependent on skills' levels' upgrades (and more directly on other kind of knowledge points). Many things are highly relative here as it is not possible to accurately describe own degree of knowledge in numbers. Also some kind of skills could have more "levels" (e.g. familiarity with more complex software learned gradually with time) than others. I have point scale for 10 levels now. And I am almost sure I wouldn't reach higher than 6-7 "overall sysadmin level" in my lifetime :blobcatsweat:

I didn't update it since October 2023. Today I log in and tried to clean that mess. I feel I should make short paper notes about my progress frequently, like I was doing in previous job. Updates would be easier...

#admin#geek#nerd

Quiz Heartbeat

Students can be slow (or unaware of) problems when attempting a #Moodle #quiz. This plugins gives an overview of the time elapsed since the last interaction between a student and the Moodle server during quiz attempts

moodle.org/plugins/quiz_heartb

moodle.orgMoodle Plugins directory: Heartbeat quiz status overview (quiz_heartbeat)Overview of the time elapsed since the last interaction between a student and the Moodle server during quiz attempts

Understanding Geological Time With Associate Professor Stijn Glorie [video]
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youtu.be/H2M2ZuVe9pE?si=iTahPK <-- shared video
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“A/Prof Stijn Glorie is a geochronologist at University of Adelaide who uses radio-isotope decay to date rocks, revealing Earth’s evolution and aiding insights into mountains, ores, and climate-tectonics links…”
#geology #time #learning #education #dating #age #epochs #understanding #rocks #structuralgeology #Quaternary #conception

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It took a couple of weeks learning how the the values yaml files for rook ceph are supposed to be written. But I have finally managed to get a rook ceph storage cluster configured on a Talos kubernetes cluster!

I can do this stuff!

Next step is getting it to work with an ArgoCD CI/CD pipeline.

My oh my, The Mind Benders class I taught at FOCI wrapped up last night and what a wonderful whirlwind! I had the most amazing students who time and time again, were so hungry for knowledge, and wanted to learn more and more.
We learned to bend neon, make digital vector patterns, blink the neon with programmable microcontrollers and I even showed them how they could work with a glassblower to pull their own tubes.

My TA, @dinkytown was incredible- typically fulfilling the class's needs before I even asked her. I am thrilled that she learned a bunch in the class.
It was able to train two FOCI staff members to bombard (the dangerous process of purifying and putting gas in the tubes)- so now FOCI neon renters can get their tubes filled quicker.
The artist talk and demo I gave was well attended, and now FOCI has the doodle I made during the demo in their permanent collection.

The amount of work and perseverance it’s taken me to accrue 24 University credits over the past 12 months has been significantly more difficult than I imagined.

Has it been worth it? Going back to University in my late 30’s?

Absolutely.

✅It’s given me purpose.
✅ It’s helped me develop better critical thinking skills.
✅ It’s opened my eyes to disciplines I knew nothing about.
✅ It’s given my overactive mind a place to grow.
✅ It’s taught me that my learning disabilities do not define me. I am worthy and capable.

💜🫶🏻 Here’s to the next year!
#school #learning #university

File formats as Emoji: 0xffae


by @beet_keeper

tldr: emoji.exponentialdecay.co.uk

File Formats As Emoji (0xFFAE or 0xffae) might be my most random file format hack yet. Indeed, it is a random page generator! But it generates random pages of file formats represented as Emoji.

The idea came in 2016 with radare releasing a new version that supported an emoji hexdump. I wondered whether I could do something fun combining file

#0xffae#Code#Coding

Hello, everyone. I've decided to start a #game with the help of #ai. I know almost nothing about #programming, but I plan to follow my progress here. Feel free to contribute and talk to me. Now I'm going to start the first day by #learning how to get started.

I'd like to know what you think about having a mentor like this, I imagine we have something we've always wanted, someone to ask everything all the time without losing the cohesion of the subject. What u think? Just free tools