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About me
I'm Kyle. I'm a dev at Tumblr. I'm an INTP. This is my blog.
I post stuff I like. Stuff like NYC history, pop-culture tidbits that I just don't understand, pics from my travels, and offbeat science.
I started the Black Techies NYC meetup, try to stay upbeat and active, and probably play soccer more than I should.
- Github
- Last.fm
Talking diversity, tech, and social media on a panel for Google I/O Extended in Harlem.
I hadn’t seen this before, and it is rather touching. This is Google’s self-driving car promo, in which a legally blind man drives to Taco Bell.
The panel at Morgan Stanley’s 2013 EDIT (Enhancing Diversity in Technology) Forum.
Left-to-right: Stacy Brown-Philpot (COO, TaskRabbit), Navarrow Wright (CTO, Interactive One), Soledad O’Brien (CNN Anchor & CEO, Starfish Media Group), Kan Kotecha (Managing Director, Morgan Stanley), and Kyle Wanamaker (Engineer, Tumblr, Organizer Black Techies).
Photo credit: kphillycat, http://instagram.com/p/XrwOQeMHsb/
It was so much fun to participate with such amazing folks!
Adam Laiacano: How to approach a problem: self-indulgent music recommendations.
I’ve been thinking a lot about music recommendations lately, and I realized that I’m usually a little bearish about listening to recommended bands that I’ve never heard of before. Maybe it’s just because I listen to a pretty broad variety of music, but I love re-discovering a band that I know but…
Adam has yet another awesome write-up of cool data-sciency stuff. This one takes 7 years of last.fm history and attempts to build a recommendation system. Awesome!
Source: adamlaiacano
NYU’s ITP School has an awesome winter show of interactive technology projects. It ends today at 8. It’s worth checking out (and it’s free).
Tumblr for iPhone 3.0: Now available on the App Store
iPhone users rejoice! We’ve redesigned and rewritten the app from the ground up, so get ready for an even better Tumblr experience:
- Sleeker Dashboard: High-res images, Spotify support, improved photosets, and more.
- New post forms: Faster uploads and handy shortcuts (swipe the compose button up for camera, swipe left for text)!
- Offline support: Post, like, reply, and reblog even when you’re not connected!
- Speed: Faster, super-responsive interface.
- Tag search and Radar!
Enjoy all these amazing features and much more! Download the app now.
#IncubateNYC & Imagine Harlem Present: Uptown 2.0: Internet Week New York
Join us in a conversation on building an organized tech community in Harlem on May 20th
(via blktechies)
Source: imagineharlem
Vaudeville: a 12-foot-tall rideable mech you control with Kinect and your smartphone
Plenty of anime fans have longed for the chance to ride in a mech of their own, and now a Japanese firm is trying to make that dream come true with Vaudeville — a giant robot that you can control with Kinect or through your mobile phone.
WANT
So this guy apparently builds his own marble machines and they are awesome.
Video: Early fax machine technology, in 1937.
What a crazy video. A news reporter needs to send a photo of an aeroplane taking off from the top of a moving car, so he sends it over the telephone lines using Telephotography.
Skip to around 2:30 for the demonstration of telephotography, but the first couple of minutes is also pretty amusing for the crazy 1930’s news reporters.
Just plain wow!
(via 8bitfuture)
