ALiEn β 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-levelβ¦
1931: Kurt GΓΆdel 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 β 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No longer maintained
Iβm 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.β¦
No longer maintained
Iβm 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.β¦
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 serveβ¦
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. Butβ¦
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
Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror https://www.digitalviolence.org/
digitalviolence.org
Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
Forensic Architectureβs Digital Violence investigation is a multidimensional study of the global use of the malware Pegasus made by Israeli cyber-surveillance company NSO Group.
Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/PCkKU357M2Q/
Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above https://www.wired.com/story/how-underground-fiber-optics-spy-on-humans-moving-above/
WIRED
How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above
Vibrations from cars and pedestrians create unique signals in cables. Now scientists have used the trick to show how Covid-19 brought life to a halt.
The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpapi-idempotency-key-header-00
IETF Datatracker
The Idempotency-Key HTTP Header Field
The HTTP Idempotency-Key request header field can be used to carry idempotency key in order to make non-idempotent HTTP methods such as "POST" or "PATCH" fault-tolerant.
When static makes your C code 10 times faster https://mazzo.li/posts/c-performance-anecdote.html
mazzo.li
When `static` makes your C code 10 times faster