Tag: point

If you are a game-changing leader you show up with a point of view about the future. If that point of view solves a problem in the marketplace, you become the ‘go to’ person on the topic. Maybe it’s about technology, team performance, business development or customer experience. It...

Using a pen to leave our mark is falling from favour and increasingly it’s the touch-screen and fingertip that are replacing paper and ink. But once upon a time, and not so long ago, cheap plastic ballpoints were everywhere. They’re still to be found aplenty in office stationery cupboard...

Overview Would you look at that, we made it! 17 pages of the bundle have come and gone, and there have only been a few hiccups here and there along the way. Pretty good if I do say so myself. The new format is operating smoothly from what I can tell, although there are a few factors as to why ...

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up a Wi-Fi Access Point using hostapd, a popular open-source software package for creating Wi-Fi networks on Linux systems. Install Hostapd & Dnsmasq For the Access Point to work, you’ll need two items: hostapd — the Access Poi...

Itwas the chicken feet soup that did it. The soup and the heat under the tin roofs covering most of the market. And all the signs in Thai. She didn’t speak Thai, but she knew the word for chicken, gai, and approached the vendor, carefully enunciating the g-a-i. The sign said — or at...

Almost ten years ago, I embarked on a life-altering trip that reinforced what I truly value in this world and unleashed a passion for travel which will keep me trotting the globe until the day I die. It was the summer of 2013. A few weeks earlier, I graduated from Seattle University with a master...

This is the full version of Talking Points. It was written for YOU and includes all the relevant real estate news and views, plus deeper analysis of topics that matter, and often a bit of inspiration as well! The goal is to prepare you for a busy weekend of client contact. In addition, paire...

I try to write about things I experience and attend to personally. It gives me agency and a sense of control over my little corner of life. I felt much more involved beyond that little corner after the euphoria of the “Transgender Tipping Point” in 2014 with Lavern Cox on the cover of Ti...

Developers have been confiscating people of color’s land for decades. If they couldn’t buy Blacks out of their property, they would harass them out or get the city to realign the property for some state-intended purpose and take one’s land. This happened countrywide. Bruce Beach wa...

Where is the tipping point? Will there be a point when the continual advances in technology meant to make our lives better do just the opposite? Or will we live in Orbit City like the Jetsons? AI, including police robot dogs and self-driving cars, what could go wrong? You know, all these AI th...

A point cloud is a set of data points in space. The sensors that generate point cloud, measure a large number of points on the external surfaces of objects around them. Point clouds are used for many purposes, like creating 3D CAD models, formetrology and quality inspection, and for a mult...

Maxwell-Boltzmann’s Distribution: To understand why water evaporates at temperatures below its boiling point, we use Maxwell-Boltzmann’s distribution. This statistical notion represents the distribution of particle speeds in a gas. It helps us comprehend the spectrum of kinetic energy...

The Greek roots of the word “photography” mean drawing with light. They stress the importance of graphics in the medium. The combination of a high Point of View (POV) and graphic compositions can play a central role in the story one wants to tell. At a distance, you have time to sl...

Point math is a branch of mathematics that deals with the arithmetic operations on points in different geometrical spaces. It may sound complicated, but the core ideas behind point math are simple, intuitive, and easy to grasp. This simplicity, coupled with its versatility, makes point math a powerf...

It can be explained better with an image so let’s take a look at this figure. As you can see points 1 and 3 are inside the polygon but point 2 is not because point 1 has 1 crossing (odd), 2 has 2 crossings (even) and 3 has 3 crossings (odd). I ran a semi-infinite ray horizontally (increasin...

In the shadows of my life, I find myself trapped in a merciless dance with addiction. Isolated and tethered to the relentless grip of drugs, each day unfolds like a tragic script I never intended to write. My body, once a temple of dreams and ambitions, now serves as a battleground where the d...