Categorie: Links
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Links van 11 tot 15 oktober 2024
The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter | Aeon Essays In the late 20th century, Japan was known for its minimalism: its Zen arts, its tidy and ordered cities, its refined foods and fashions. But Tsuzuki peeled away this façade to reveal a more complicated side to his nation. And Tokyo was the perfect setting for…
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Links van 8 tot 10 oktober 2024
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain When the British government announced last week that it was transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to the country of Mauritius, Gareth immediately realized its online implications: the end of the .io domain suffix. In this piece, he explores how geopolitical changes can unexpectedly disrupt the…
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Links van 4 tot 8 oktober 2024
US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting | Montana | The Guardian An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive…
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Links van 30 september tot 4 oktober 2024
Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds | History Today If you’ve never encountered this aspect of Anglo-Saxon England before, there is a ready explanation. To the founding fathers of academic history – the scholars of late Victorian and early 20th-century England – the Anglo-Saxons were ‘us’, and it was from them that we derived much…
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Links van 26 tot 30 september 2024
XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today One of the all-time great XKCDs. It’s amazing that “check whether the photo is of a bird” has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, or CLIP, or ResNet+ImageNet among others). AI, XKCD How to Make Viral 1950’s Super Panavision 70 Videos…
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Links van 23 tot 25 september 2024
transparent like frosted glass • Buttondown /insert discussie over mentaal model en hoe de interface u daarbij moet helpen, en dat het hoegenaamd niet uitmaakt of het mentaal model al dan niet de échte waarheid weergeeft. A good interface is a locus. It is usually where our explanation ends, but always where it begins. It…
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Links van 18 tot 22 september 2024
Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy | Games | The Guardian In 2004, Fable was as famous for what it didn’t deliver as for what it did. But this Python-esque fantasy game deserves to be remembered for more than that. games, Peter Molyneux Trove of dinosaur fossils found high…
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Links van 8 mei 2019 tot 13 mei 2019
Secular Web Kiosk: The Shroud of Turin: The Great Gothic Art Fraud — Because If It’s Real the Brain of Jesus Was the Size of a Protohuman’s!If Jesus had the proportions of the image in the shroud, then he was a severely deformed and pathological person who would have cut a shocking figure as he…
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Links van 20 april 2019 tot 7 mei 2019
Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Future? – The AtlanticCredentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible. Untergunther – Restoration of the Pantheon clockThe Untergunther is a French team whose activity is to restore the invisible parts of the heritage in total clandestinity. In November 2005, the…
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Links van 9 april 2019 tot 20 april 2019
Jordan Peterson’s BullshitPeterson does not speak for what is “normal.” His jargon of authenticity — that he is just a simple academic fighting for truth amid so much political correctness and censorship — masks his authoritarian ideas. He calls Marxism a “murderous ideology,” but his paranoid and conspiratorial politics are hard to distinguish from the…
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Links van 30 maart 2019 tot 6 april 2019
Gracht, kassei, sofa: kinderen weten niet meer wat het is – De Standaard‘Veel toekomstige leerkrachten hebben vandaag moeite met eenvoudige rekensommen en taal’, zegt Anita Wuestenberg, een gepensioneerde onderwijzeres die lange tijd betrokken was bij de lerarenopleiding voor het basisonderwijs. ‘Toen ik vroeg welke jeugdboeken ze kenden, antwoordden ze alleen met boekjes van Studio 100.…
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Links van 27 maart 2019 tot 29 maart 2019
The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker“We have the whole KT event preserved in these sediments,” DePalma said. “With this deposit, we can chart what happened the day the Cretaceous died.” No paleontological site remotely like it had ever been found, and, if DePalma’s hypothesis proves correct, the scientific value of the site…
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Links van 20 maart 2019 tot 27 maart 2019
Genital Jousting on SteamGenital Jousting is an online and local multiplayer party game about flaccid penises and wiggly anuses for up to eight players at once. Players control a detached penis complete with testicles and an anus. Multiple game modes provide a stimulating orgy of objectives: penetrate and be penetrated as fast as possible or…
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Links van 4 maart 2019 tot 19 maart 2019
MySpace is still active, and accidentally deleted 12 years worth of music – VoxThe wonky, pre-Facebook, customizable web page-based social network Myspace has lost all the music uploaded to the platform between 2003 and 2015, totaling more than 50 million songs from 14 million artists, which the company confirmed only after some participants in a…