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>>> atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection The idea is: what happens with psychedelic experimentation at mass scale? Do we morph into an empathic nation of Deanna Troi's overnite ;)
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Very cool. Nintendo GBC era graphics fidelity and smooth animations playable instantly in browser. It's amazing how performant it is. "Wormhole" is the basis for a great "Pilotwings" flight trainer ;)
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>>> Yuengling "Hershey's Chocolate Porter" interesting...
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Looking back at this moment from the lens of a not too distant future history, the image that may become indelible: the volunteer indian funeral pyre builder https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/28/c
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Internet, on the Ground by Nick Merrill
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>>> web-based emulator is intended for computer graphics education Vulkan ShaderToy in the browser! This is huge. ShaderToy is used everywhere. And a LOT of people are struggling with getting great ray tracing results. Have you tri
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This seems like a significant milestone in AI. I mean what can't an agent with mastery of "guided search, learning, and game-theoretic reasoning" accomplish?
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Sanskrit lessons should be mandatory for all K-12 students ;) http://sanskrit-ai.com/
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Okko's Inn. The Greatest Miyazaki Film, that Miyazaki never made ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIXc0S3t3LY Also looking forward to Mamoru Hosoda's Belle out Jan 2022 https://www.youtube.com/wa
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"Nazi Germany lost the opportunity to build the first electronic computer in the late '30s when the Wehrmacht refused to fund Konrad Zuze, who had pioneered the use of binary code, stored programs and electronic logic gates"
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The Californian Ideology (1995)
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Well, even the NYSE uses "circuit breakers". But that's no solution ;) https://www.nyse.com/network/article/nyse-increases-resilian...
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Sounds like the Re-birth of the "Expert System". Now with neural networks ;) Learning from Artificial Intelligence’s Previous Awakenings: The History of Expert Systems https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/aimagazine
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And Gwei almost hit $1k! Triggered by the rush of eth holders to the exit. None of the proposed eips do anything to de-incentivize "surge pricing" in mining rewards during "bank panics". It would be counter-productive to
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I like the Swift Playgrounds materials a lot. It's a great grounding in Intro to CS. BUT it quickly gets boring for 9 y/o's. Even gamedev, Roblox, etc. They are digital natives so the novelty isn't a fascination to them,
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First of all, the linked LRB article is just a must read. The cyber beat is often the most underreported in investigative journalism. Probably because its so difficult to crack (hehe) into that subculture. But it's clear it's choc
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Hey, dragon, thanks so much for your thoughtful replies. This thread turned into a bonanza of revelations into the future of graphics apis. And I have to concur, cpus are getting so inexpensive and powerful, proprietary renderers (designed
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If StyleGAN3 is just StyleGAN with anti-aliasing, I feel there should be post-processing effect pass to smooth discontinuities. Lots of commercial 2D image filters in the wild exhibit pixel artifacts. And a simple averaging blur is enough t
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WebGPU computations performance in comparison to WebGL
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The Dawn of Everything. It's data-driven history. And I see it as part of a process of re-connecting with an Ancient World lost to the human imagination with time ;) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357
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4EVERLAND – The PaaS of Web 3.0
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The fake Tom Cruise on TikTok, while not "photo-real" in any sense of the word, seems to overcome any uncanny valley effects through shear force of personality. We don't just observe the face, we react to the spirit behind it
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I saw this toy in the bookstore this weekend and thought it looked like it had a LOT of potential (pun intended). It's called "Klutz Circuit Clay", and consists of two types of mold-able putty: conductive and insulating. A re
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Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure
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I love to see all the Nintendo preservation, enhancement and AI research ;) What's the best way to programmatically interface with an NES ROM in 2022? JSNES, from which you could run tensorflow.js, seems perfect for browsers. But NES-p
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Anyone desiring a more rigorous intro to the subject, I recommend the lectures of PPPL Director Steven Cowley. Like listening to James Bond 007 wax poetic about stellerators ;) Getting to a Fusion Pilot Plant https://www.youtube.
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Journey's through the Golden Age of Sci Fi led me back chronologically to its Victorian precursors. Just finished HG Welles' The Island of Doctor Moreau. And I have to say, it's like an ur-Text for all Sci Fi has to say about
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>>> Combining a series of new microscopy techniques, the group present a complete picture of the nanoscale chemical, structural and optoelectronic landscape of these materials It's not even relevant to call it "microscopy
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>>> huge list of things supposedly created by NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies Bowflex ;)
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>>> public opinion is opposed to space exploration It's always been true ;) If you put it to a vote, majority of americans will allocate public funds towards terrestrial concerns over a new space lab. Even though provable, tec
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