Tag: ai
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Links van 13 tot 24 december 2024
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn | The Scientist Magazine® We recently joined a number of other scientists in calling for a certain line of research to not be pursued: work that could result in the creation of “mirror bacteria.” These are bacteria made of all components that natural cells possess,…
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Links van 6 tot 13 november 2024
Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’ On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator. wetenschap, Carl Sagan Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery In the northern reaches of Russia, enigmatic craters have begun appearing in broad expanses of windswept…
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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 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 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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De toekomst is hier
Ik ben na maanden nog altijd heel hard verliefd op ChatGPT. Er gaat geen dag voorbij dat ik het niet gebruik, en voor de stomste dingen eerst. Het blijft uiteraard maar wat het is, en garbage in is garbage out, en als de juiste vragen niet gesteld worden en er wordt niet bijgestuurd en ge…
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One down, three to go (for now)
Ayup, de eerste levering van Ikea is toegekomen: honderden kilo’s Pax-kasten. Het leveren was een beetje een klucht: twee mannen in een grote kamion, één die eerst achter het stuur bleef zitten terwijl de andere (die noch Nederlands noch Frans sprak maar wel hier en daar een woord van de twee zei) één voor één…
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UX London, dag 3/3
Bit of a change of pace, vandaag. Ik was het eerlijk gezegd uit het oog verloren tot gisteren, dat de drie dagen eigenlijk drie helemaal verschillende dagen waren. Dag één was Designing Products, dag twee was Designing For People, vandaag was het Designing the Future. En kijk: elke spreker vandaag was op zijn/haar eigen manier…
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Links van 18 januari 2018 tot 20 januari 2018
Adactio: Journal—Needs mustIn Resilient Web Design, I documented the three-step approach I take when I’m building anything on the web: Identify core functionality. Make that functionality available using the simplest possible technology. Enhance! Now I’m wondering if I should’ve clarified that second step further. When I talk about choosing “the simplest possible technology”, what I…
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Links van 24 maart 2016 tot 28 maart 2016
Why is David Cameron so silent on the recapture of Palmyra from the clutches of Isis? | Voices | The IndependentIn the end, it was the Syrian army – and its Hizballah chums from Lebanon, and the Iranians, and the Russians – who drove the Isis murderers out of Palmyra So You Wanna Be a Chef—…
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Links van 7 april 2014 tot 10 april 2014
Giving Away Our Recommendation Engine for Free | Mortar Blog | Data Science at ScaleWhat’s better than a recommendation engine that’s free? A recommendation engine that is both awesome and free. Today, we’re announcing General Availability for the Mortar Recommendation Engine. Designed by Mortar’s engineers and top data science advisors, it produces personalized recommendations at…
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Links van 21 januari 2014 tot 29 januari 2014
Post mortem – Thanks & lessons learned | Notes from the trenchesLessons learned – Don’t operate in a market where a single player can arbitrarily decide to kill you. Especially don’t work in a market that’s controlled by an entity that explicitly refuses to communicate with you (or anyone else) or to explain their guidelines.…
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Doe uzelf keer de duvel aan
Ik heb gisteren te hard in mijn oor gekoterd. Geen angst: niet in mijn trommelvlies gezeten of zo, geen gehoorschade, geen bloed. Maar wel: gelijk dat heel mijn hoofd aan de rechterkant een blauwe plek is. Ai. Ai. Ai. Miljaaarrrrrr dat doet pijn! En slim dat dat is, ja. Grmbl.
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Links van 19 april 2012 tot 22 april 2012
IBNIZIBNIZ is a virtual machine designed for extremely compact low-level audiovisual programs. The leading design goal is usefulness as a platform for demoscene productions, glitch art and similar projects. Mainsteam software engineering aspects are considered totally irrelevant. IBNIZ stands for Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo. The name also refers to Gottfried Leibniz, the 17th-century polymath…
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Links van 12 november 2011 tot 5 december 2011
Arcade Improv: Humans Pretending to Be Videogames – Waxy.orgInstantly, Mike and Jerry understood, along with everyone in the audience born before 1978. Catherine Young & Family, Page OneA family working in the Tifton (Ga.) Cotton Mill. Mrs. A.J. Young works in mill and at home. Nell (oldest girl) alternates in mill with mother. Mammy (next…