Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015) https://gmunk.com/Windows-10-Desktop/
Gmunk
Windows 10 Desktop — GMUNK
Windows 10 DesktopJuly 2015 –– An icon is defined, among other things, by its longevity. Icons don’t withstand change - they endure it, by evolving...
Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003) http://tomwaitslibrary.info/biography/copyright/frito-lay/
The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html
LANCE EWING
The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder
There is nothing unusual about the outside of these disks, but there is something unique about the data that is stored on them, something that Sierra On-Line would have been totally unaware of and certainly wouldn’t have wanted them to include.
First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/first-pictures-from-euclid-satellite-reveal-billions-of-orphan-stars
www.nottingham.ac.uk
News - First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars - University of Nottingham
The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the Perseus cluster of galaxies.
We're ending our Samsung collaboration https://www.ifixit.com/News/96162/were-ending-our-samsung-collaboration
iFixit
We’re Ending Our Samsung Collaboration
It’s not us, it’s you. It’s with a heavy wrench that we have decided to end our partnership with Samsung. Despite a huge amount of effort, Samsung’s approach to repairability does not align with our mission.
Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13817
arXiv.org
Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent
Second-order training methods have better convergence properties than gradient descent but are rarely used in practice for large-scale training due to their computational overhead. This can be...
Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4835311
Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident/
Google Cloud Blog
Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud shares details of an incident impacting one Australian customer's use of Google Cloud VMware Engine. Learn what happened and how we're preventing it from happening again.
Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go https://github.com/roblillack/spot
GitHub
GitHub - roblillack/spot: React-like desktop GUI toolkit for Go
React-like desktop GUI toolkit for Go. Contribute to roblillack/spot development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought (2014) [pdf] http://gjgreenberg.bol.ucla.edu/docs/rpp/04_tversky.pdf
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908) http://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-helen-keller-on-her.html
Blogspot
Before the Soul Dawn - Helen Keller on Her Life Before Self-Consciousness
From The World I Live In , by Helen Keller Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world....
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215
MIT News
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the “multiple demand network,” which is also recruited for complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problems…