Tag: ai
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Links van 14 tot 18 december 2025
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure – Creatures of Thought Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and finally the rise of hybrids that fused home video game systems with personal computers.…
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Links van 28 november tot 1 december 2025
20 Years of ZBrush… And I'm Blown Away by Nomad Er zijn geen zekerheden meer — "After almost 20 years of using ZBrush, we are giving Nomad a try! This is our first impressions of Nomad after using it for a few weeks. We're covering both the ipad and desktop version of Nomad" 3D, sculpture,…
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Links van 10 tot 22 oktober 2025
Microsoft is taking steps to open-sourcing Windows 11 user interface framework – Neowin Microsoft wants to make Windows 11’s UI framework open-source, and it has shared details about this complex process. UI, microsoft HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML — Acko.net Reinventing the DOM to ditch all legacy baggage could coincide with redesigning it for…
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Links van 19 april tot 13 mei 2025
“Alien Life and How to Find It” presented by Clara Sousa Silva Professor Clara Sousa-Silva presents “Alien Life, and How to Find It”. Over the last few decades, scientists have found thousands of planets beyond our own. Some of those planets might be habitable, and perhaps even inhabited already; but how can we tell? Clara…
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Links van 20 februari tot 1 maart 2025
Hittite Monuments A list of monuments from Hittite civilization with images and brief information. Hittieten, archeologie, geschiedenis (6105) The Discovery of a New Bronze and Iron Age Kingdom in Turkey: The Site of Türkmen-Karahöyük – YouTube Türkmen-Karahöyük is een recent ontdekte archeologische site in Centraal-Anatolië die een onbekend Bronstijd- en IJzertijd-koninkrijk onthult. Uit een inscriptie,…
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Links van 27 januari tot 6 februari 2025
The leading AI models are now very good historians The headaches that LLMs have caused in the classroom are (I believe) more than counterbalanced by what they can offer as tools for research and self-directed learning. For this reason, I’m now even more optimistic about the long-term impact and utility of AI tools for historical…
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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…
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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…