Happy 13th anniversary!

My husband and I are huge geeks, so we decided to sprinkle it throughout our wedding. We even had the ceremony at a planetarium! It was an amazing time!

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Here's to many more years!

Building a Potato-based GLaDOS as an Introduction to AI - Although not nearly as intimidating as her ceiling-mounted hanging arm body, GLaD... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/06/building-a-potato-based-glados-as-an-introduction-to-ai/ #artificialintelligence #jetsonorinnano #nvidiajetson #pipervoice #portal2 #glados #portal #llama

#portal : hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing

- French: portail

- German: das Portal

- Italian: portale

- Portuguese: portal

- Spanish: portal

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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

"Ich bin jemand, der gerne Rätsel löst", sagt der Physiker Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher. In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Universitätsmagazins #PORTAL erzählen er und seine Arbeitsgruppe von ihrem Spezialgebiet, den auf Kohlenwasserstoffverbindungen basierenden #organischenSolarzellen. Die Arbeitsgruppe gehört zu den international führenden in diesem Bereich. Zum Artikel geht es hier: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachrichten/detail/2025-05-15-solarzellen-die-naechste-generation-ein-besuch-im-labor-des-physikers-dieter-neher

Vor einigen Tagen las ich von einem neuen Portal, dass Fernverkehrsverbindungen mit der Bahn besser kalkuliert (d.h. auf Grund von angefallenen Verspätungen alles realistischer plant) als bisherige Portale (z.B. München - London). Leider habe ich mir damals den Link nicht gespeichert. Hat jemand eine Idee, wie dieses Portal für Bahnreisen heißt? Beim Portal der DB sind ja oft die Anschlusszüge weg, weil die Umsteigezeit eben ohne Verspätungen geplant wird...
#Fernleihe #Planung #Bahn #Planung #Portal #fedifrage
@jon@gruene.social - vielleicht von Ihnen dazu eine Idee?

Open a Portal to an NES Emulator - The Portal games were revolutionary not only for their puzzle-based, narrative-dri... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/open-a-portal-to-an-nes-emulator/ #softwarehacks #scripting #emulator #squirrel #portal2 #porting #smolnes #portal #c

Auf der Suche nach einer #Wochenendlektüre? Eine neue Ausgabe des Universitätsmagazins „Portal“ mit dem Titelthema „Kinder“ ist erschienen und ist online hier verfügbar: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/up-entdecken/upaktuell/universitaetsmagazin

In dieser Ausgabe lassen wir Wissenschaftler*innen zu Wort kommen, die sich mit dieser so prägenden Lebensphase zwischen Geburt und Pubertät auskennen.

Geospatial Services / Gateway – USDA NRCS [open data]
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #portal #download #spatialdata #opendata #remotesensing #earthobservation #NRCS #ISDA #FSA #FarmServiceAgenct #RuralDevelopment #agriculture #fedservice #fedscience #farming #farmers #soil #SSURGO #environmental #naturalresources #NaturalResourcesConservationService #TIGER #precipitation #temperature #conservation #easement #LiDAR #elevation #names #geography #geology #governmentunits #boundaries #watershed #hydrology #water #WBD #HUC #topo #imagery #roads #transportation #soils #SSURGO #USA #US #landcover #landuse #NLCD

Here is a video about doing ungodly things with portals. There is some fun #topology in all of this isn't there?

#portal #portal2 #math #simulation #illegal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEaw3Kuhf0

Why I the web.

Someone created an #AI assistant modeled after GLaDOS from the #Portal series. It can speak, think, and even control their smart home through Home Assistant. The best part? It costs less than $50 to build.

And comes with potato?

https://www.xda-developers.com/glados-portal-control-smart-home/

This Potato Virtual Assistant is Fully Baked - There are a number of reasons you might want to build your own smart speaker virtual assi... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/15/this-potato-virtual-assistant-is-fully-baked/ #artificialintelligence #3dprinterhacks #home-assistant #smartspeaker #raspberrypi #respeaker #portal2 #portal

A while ago I discovered someone made an e-ink Portal-inspired calendar. Well last week I finally caved, and bought all the parts to make my own!

This was my first foray into using an ESP32 (as well as soldering) so all things considered, I'm happy that it's running at all given my lack of skills in the areas.

If you want to make your own, the printables page has the models and a link to the GH with the code, BoM, and build instructions:
https://www.printables.com/model/345226-portal-e-ink-calendar

I know it's not super timely, but the last build I played of the fan-made Portal 64 port didn't have title screens, menus or options.
This week I played the last build and it felt like a commercial release! Even had the Valve splash screen when it launched!

Elleringhausen – Der Künstler Jürgen Suberg
Im April 1994 pr
https://privatarchiv.rzgierskopp.de/1994/04/elleringhausen-der-kuenstler-juergen-suberg/
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#AtelierSuberg #Elleringhausen #Filme #GebudeInElleringhausen #GebudeInMeschede #KsterHansMartin #Kreishaus #Kunst #Meschede #Religion #StadtMeschede #StadtOlsberg #SubergJrgen #Bildhauer #Chorraum #Haan #Kathedrale #KathedraleStSebastianMagdeburg #Kirche #KircheStChrysantusUndDariaHaan #Magdeburg #Maler #nl2504 #Portal #Westportal