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Sometimes you gotta go old school

· One min read
Louis Roehrs
Architect

Lost your headphones?

Yes, this handset works!

I forgot my high-tech Bluetooth headphones and had to reach for this handset. The sound quality is actually amazing and there is a whole additional benefit. People (at least Gen-X and boomers…and my kids!) get that I’m actually on the phone and talking to someone not in the room. Sometimes, this old tech provides the ambient information to others that is lost in our continually connected, wireless world. Combine with this with the Lightning to 3.5 mm Audio dongle from Apple, and you can use this with your iPhone, too. It works really well, can leave your phone in the pocket and people will know you are on the phone, even while walking down the street.

Looking for your headphones, but they are too tiny to find? This big handset is much harder to lose under the bed, in the covers, or under the car seat.

If you are looking for that On-Air indicator or looking for a way to notify others and let them know you are on a call or on the phone, I highly recommend picking up one of these today!

Traveling the world and trying to npm a webapp on a slow connection?

· 2 min read
Louis Roehrs
Architect

How To Fix NPM Timeout Errors On Slow Internet Connections

Is npx create-react-app failing with timeouts while you are on a good old fashioned copper connection?

Sometimes when we work with slow or unstable Internet connections, npm often fails to complete its commands, like npm install and npm update with a timeout error. For that kind of situation, we can simply change some npm configurations like fetch-retries, fetch-retry-mintimeout, fetch-retry-maxtimeout and cache-min to minimize these timeout errors.

Using your GPU to make a lava lamp

· One min read
Louis Roehrs
Architect

We can use the GPUs and some trignometric functions to make a digital, real-time lava lamp. If you only see a black square, try a different browser that supports WebGL and be sure to turn on the WebGL support for your browser.

Mandelbrot with WebGPU

· 3 min read
Louis Roehrs
Architect

Web GPU Mandlebrot

This Mandlebrot set is being displayed in your browser using your GPU. This is not a movie. It is being calculated and rendered in realtime. If you only see a black square, try a different browser that supports WebGL and be sure to turn on the WebGL support for your browser. If only Benoit Mandlebrot, an IBMer, had a GPU on which to run his JavaScript code.


We can build a gpu kernal which simply provides the GPU with the code in JavaScript to tell the GPU what color to set the pixel at the given x, y coordinate and bind it to an HTML canvas.

Get this. It will even run on an AppleWatch!


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After IBM Watson Trend, Watson has been put to work for Marketing Practitioners

· One min read
Louis Roehrs
Architect

Our IBM Incubator team built the next big thing for Watson.

This video really shows how new technology will assist practioners to work more in depth with their information and accomplish more than they can today. The practioners will be able to tackle problems with alacrity that are just not being tackled today. I do not see this type of technology as replacing humans with computers. Humans don’t currently have the capability as the amount of data and processing required is already too much for current staffing levels to handle. What I see happening is that businesses that adopt and use this technology will grow and have the resources to bring in more people that generate the value unlocked in partnership with this technology.

Please, sit down and enjoy.

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IBM Watson Trend wins 2016 DAA award for Excellence

· One min read
Louis Roehrs
Architect

WINNING!!

Last night at the 2016 Digital Analytics Association Excellence Awards Gala, the application my team built, IBM Watson Trend, received the Technology of the Year Award! This is a notable industry award – especially given the competition, which included both top tier firms as well as innovative startups, such as Adobe and Ensighten.

What a fun night! Especially the part where the head of Google Analytics hands us the award!

Edit: The Digital Analytics Association was consumed by the American Marketing Association.