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by jhncls 5y ago
Sometimes it is helpful to first reduce the number of colors (preferably to 256 if that doesn't cause too much banding, depending on the number of color shades used). Then png usually compresses a lot better. Png compresses badly when
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by jhncls 5y ago
How will printing money lead to redistributing wealth? The wealthy will still have their properties, their stocks, their personal connections, their education, ... . When the water level rises, all boats will rise together.
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The Day Britain Stopped(en.wikipedia.org)
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Scientists win $3M 'Breakthrough Prize' for mRNA tech behind Covid-19 vaccines(livescience.com)
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How a Viking king inspired one of our best-known modern technologies(thelocal.dk)
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by jhncls 5y ago
The correct way is to count in binary, and easily reach 1023 without needing a third hand [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_binary
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by jhncls 5y ago
You probably want to read the follow-up: - How was it? - Underwhelming. Hot and sweaty face, battery nearly dead, impossible to drink coffee or water. So I guess there is only upside :)
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Tensegrity(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jhncls 5y ago
This suggests that laws such as the European GDPR are important, even if the exact way they are formulated can be discussed.
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by jhncls 5y ago
Would this algorithm allow for an image version of the Burrows-Wheeler transform? So, sorting image rows and columns using a compressibility criterion. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...
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by jhncls 5y ago
Is this the same Eric Schmidt as in "If You Have Something You Don’t Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Doing It"? [0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-ceo-on-privacy-if_n_38...
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AI drone may have 'hunted down' and killed soldiers in Libya with no human input(livescience.com)
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Tensegrity(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jhncls 5y ago
It's a quote from Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926) [0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle#Misattributed
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Using Pigeons to Diagnose Cancer(scientificamerican.com)
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A weird theory of gravity could break cause-and-effect(livescience.com)
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A bubbling pool of mud is on the move, and no one knows why(nationalgeographic.com)
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Learn How to Fold a World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane(wired.com)
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by jhncls 5y ago
Some programmers might enjoy that he introduces zero-based indices for these determinants.
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The 'frodosome,' a brand new organelle(livescience.com)
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Phenakistiscope(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jhncls 6y ago
M.C. Escher already knew about a curl-up beetle as documented in 1951. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl-up [1]: https://www.instructables.com/Articulated-MC-Escher-Curl-up-...
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by jhncls 6y ago
You seem to be hinting to Chesterton's fence [0]. [0]: https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
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by jhncls 6y ago
This reminds of Randall's xkcd colors[0], who did the reverse experiment: given a color, what would be the most appropriate name? The 954 names made it into Python's matplotlib. [0] https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/
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by jhncls 6y ago
Wikipedia seems to disagree (and includes a photo): "Denen die Got lieben müssen, alle dinge zum besten dienen." Which it suggests translating as "For those who love God, all things must work together for the best". htt
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by jhncls 6y ago
Don Knuth's 2017 Christmas lecture featured a way to count how many ways a rectangle can be subdivided into rectangles [0]. It got its own entry in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [1]. [0] https://youtu.be/
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by jhncls 6y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25574661 of a few days ago.
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This talk is especially noteworthy as Jeremy apparently got accused very harshly of breaking a code of conduct[0]. [0] https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/
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My attention was drawn by the following explanation of the Front cover design: The roses in the foreground (Roses by D. R. Fowler, J. Hanan and P. Prusinkiewicz [1990]) were modeled using L-systems. Distributed ray-tracing with one extende
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New nanobiomaterial from the silk of a mite with promising biomedical properties(phys.org)
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