Last week, the Living Molecules app was released on the iTunes AppStore, in its “minimum viable product” form, to use the parlance of our times. To no great surprise, the recognition sequence for taking camera images and applying an algorithmic transform to decode the binary payload was less than perfect in version 1.0, though due to a couple of rookie mistakes on my part, the nature of those imperfections taught me a couple of things that I should have already known. Continue reading →