HOT TAKE: everything with a battery should have an off switch

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Chapters:
00:00 Introducing JPEG and RGB Representation
2:15 Lossy Compression
3:41 What information…

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Human activity and behaviour is contributing to an increasing number of disasters across the world, putting millions of lives and every social and economic gain in danger, warns a new UN report.

We were magicians and the web was our magic

(1978) 30m, dir. David Loeb Weiss. On July 2, 1978, the last hot lead edition of the New York Times rolled off the presses. Weiss, a proofreader for the Times,...

<div class="desc text-stone-500 font-mono text-sm">Posted On 05.08.2022</div> A parser is a program that usually takes a stream of lexical tokens and transfo...

[Note: Shuna, aka eggbeater, has covered this subject well and honestly in many posts, notably the culinary school question.  I address it in the intro to the new paperback of Making of a Chef and on my FAQ page. But when I read Bourdain's take in his most…

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥 - naptha/tesseract.js

The writer and musician Ali Sethi has created an unconventional hit with “Pasoori.”

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Editor’s Note: The Surface Transportation Board is conducting an in-person hearing April 26-27 (EP 770, Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service) with the CEOs of the “Big Four” Class I railroads—BNSF, CSX, Norfolk

Rory Cellan Jones visits the Dundee studios of DMA Design - fresh from the success of Lemmings, but before they became Rockstar Games - where artists, level designers, musicians and video game testers are hard at work developing an ambitious, and tonally…

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What is Agile? And where does it come from?

Physically-based differentiable rendering has recently emerged as an attractive new technique for solving inverse problems that recover complete 3D scene representations from images. The inversion of shape parameters is of particular interest but also poses…

I first heard about the dinosaur 🦕 VS shark 🦈 analogy when I read this excellent article about relational databases: