Tag: archeology
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Links van 30 maart tot 5 april 2026
Bird brains — Dhanish We default to thinking intelligence scales with brain size, that it's a mammal thing, that it correlates with being "higher" on some imaginary evolutionary ladder. Turns out it's about neuron density and architecture, not mass. A 10 gram raven brain running 1.2 billion neurons is doing more per gram than almost…
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Links van 27 tot 30 maart 2026
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green on the reactor’s walls and in the control panel room. Thus began my day-long search, traipsing…
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Links van 7 tot 16 maart 2026
We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI | Techdirt As Maye discovered through painful experience, the answer is to stop treating AI as a policing problem and start treating it as an educational one. Teach students how to write. Teach them how to…
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Links van 31 januari tot 9 februari 2026
5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid – Archaeology Worlds With modern computer programs that can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago the researchers have established what the Planisphere tablet refers to. It is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he…
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Links van 8 tot 10 januari 2026
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity – Effectiviology The Napoleon technique is a productivity technique that involves postponing dealing with something if it’s likely to get resolved without your immediate input. For example, based on the Napoleon technique, you could decide to wait a day before replying to emails that ask for your…
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Links van 1 tot 4 januari 2026
Turning 20 while the world turns upside-down | Parv Mahajan I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, lots of jobs will be gone soon. Probably, the smartest thing alive will no longer be human. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re…
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Links van 18 tot 24 december 2025
Open Access We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more…
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Links van 7 tot 13 december 2025
rePalm – Dmitry.GR Pixter was quite popular, as far as kids' toys go, in USA in the early 2000s. A friend brought it to my attention a year ago as a potential rePalm target. The screen resolution was right and looking inside a "Pixter Color" showed an ARM SoC – a Sharp LH75411. The device…
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Links van 1 tot 6 december 2025
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s – jaeblog jaeblog In my mind, Tektronix is a brand that makes electronics lab equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Turns out, they made quite a few terminals and a couple of computers! A good friend saw this one for sale local to him, and I poked him…
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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 6 juni 2011 tot 7 juni 2011
2012: Supernova (2009) (V) – GoofsMiscellaneous: Despite the title, this movie has no connection whatsoever with 2012. Nook Simple Touch compared to Kindle 3 – Marco.orgMy ideal e-reader would be the Nook hardware and interface, but backed by the Kindle’s ecosystem and services. It’s easier for Amazon to achieve Nook-like hardware design than for B&N…
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Links van 13 maart 2011 tot 14 maart 2011
Incredible Space Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock | triggerpit.comOn September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew. He is also known as @Astro_Wheels on twitter, where he has been tweeting space photos to his…