United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.html
CNBC
United Airlines will buy 15 ultrafast airplanes from start-up Boom Supersonic
Boom says its first commercial supersonic jet, the Overture, will fly at Mach 1.7 and cut some flight times in half.
An Unbelievable Demo https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters https://usa.oceana.org/publications/reports/oceana-finds-hundreds-vessels-vanishing-along-argentinas-waters#
Oceana USA
Oceana Finds Hundreds of Vessels Vanishing Along Argentina’s Waters
ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program https://alien-project.org/
alien-project.org
artificial life environment
Artificial LIfe ENvironment (ALIEN) is an artificial life simulation tool based on a specialized 2D particle engine in CUDA for soft bodies and fluid-like media. Each simulated body consists of a network of particles that can be enriched with higher-level…
1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedel-1931-founder-theoretical-computer-science-AI.html
people.idsia.ch
1931: theoretical computer science & AI theory founded by Goedel
His famous 1931 paper identified the fundamental limits of math, logics, theorem proving, computing, AI.
I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka https://gentlydownthe.stream/
Show HN: 3dasd – open-source DIY room-scale 3D scanner https://3dasd.com/
3Dasd
Introduction
3dasd # Welcome to 3dasd.com, home for a fully open-source DIY room-scale 3D scanner!
No longer maintained
I’m not maintaining this site and this whole project anymore. If you happen to have any questions, you can still reach me via the contacts though.…
No longer maintained
I’m not maintaining this site and this whole project anymore. If you happen to have any questions, you can still reach me via the contacts though.…
GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer https://copilot.github.com/
GitHub
GitHub Copilot
AI that builds with you
A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING
Kleinbottle
Acme Klein Bottle
Glass Klein Bottles
Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020) https://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207
MIT News
Simple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve…
Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/another-0-day-looms-for-many-western-digital-users/
Krebs on Security
Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users
Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw. But…
Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition https://vaclavkosar.com/ml/Wav2vec2-Semi-and-Unsupervised-Speech-Recognition
Vaclavkosar
Wav2vec: Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Speech Recognition
Word2vec for audio quantizes phonemes, transforms, GAN trains on text and audio from Facebook AI.
How to add eBPF observability to your product https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-07-03/how-to-add-bpf-observability.html
Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013) https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/
Soviet Venus Images (2004) http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
Mentallandscape
Soviet Venus Images