"I am not a military man. I never wanted to be in the military. I am a candidate in historical sciences. And a writer for a bit. I would have to spend time researching history, writing scientific and popular science works. But lately, I've been in the military. Because there is a war in my... Read more
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How Group Minds Differ
We humans have remarkable minds, minds more capable in many ways that in any other animal, or any artificial system so far created. Many give a lot of thought to the more capable artificial “super-intelligences” that we will likely create someday. But I’m more interested now in the “super-intelligences” that we already have: group minds.... Read more
Writing embedded firmware using Rust
Written on Sept. 25, 2021, 5:45 p.m. Updated Dec. 1, 2021, 11:36 p.m. Overview Microcontrollers (MCUs) are ubiquitous in modern electronics. These combination hardware/software devices are called embedded devices, and their software is usually programmed in C or C++. Rust is a modern language that's recently become a viable alternative. This article explores Rust's capabilities... Read more
Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”
Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?” Hi! Try the new Wakamai Fondue beta! Join the pack! Join 8000+ others registered users, and get chat, make groups, post updates and make friends around the world! www.knowasiak.com/register/
Algorithm Uses Evolution to Design Robots
There are also a host of noninvasive technologies that can record from or stimulate the brain, some of which are approved for medical use. Other companies sell noninvasive neurotech directly to consumers for applications such as meditation, focus, and sleep; these devices need only meet the safety standards that govern consumer gadgets, not the far... Read more
Show HN: A Chrome extension to generate markup link reference for current page
master Switch branches/tags Could not load branches Nothing to show {{ refName }} 1 branch 0 tags Code Latest commit reorx bump 1.3.0 0bab029 Dec 19, 2021 bump 1.3.0 features: - settings: default format - new format: MediaWiki 0bab029 Git stats 16 commits Files Permalink Failed to load latest commit information. Type Name Latest commit... Read more
JWST Deployment Explorer
⇧ Scroll/Click Thumbnails div> 000 Click the sequence of Webb Deployment images above to explore each. On it's ~1,000,000 mile journey to L2 Webb will go though the major deployment steps shown above (there are many sub-steps not shown). Explore each of the major steps by clicking above and then using the additional info buttons... Read more
MDN Open Design: New Logo
MDN Open Design: New LogoWe are working on a new logo for MDN and would love your input! Take a look at potential designs and vote for your favorite(s) at the bottom of the page.Option 1: Design NotesLowercase pixelated ‘m’ suggests elements/people coming together to make a greater whole.Option 2: Design Notes• M monogram made... Read more
Smart Distancing Systems combine motion tracking and laser projection
SDS or Smart Distancing Systems, by Dutch artists Jólan van der Wiel & Nick Verstand, is their creative and hi-tech way to provide social distancing guidelines in public spaces. "By intelligently using visually attractive shapes, social distancing can now be more enjoyable, more beautiful and above all, more functional than before," the duo writes. "Marking... Read more
Bottles: Easy GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
Empowered by environments Bottles introduces a new way to handle Windows prefixes using environments, a combination of ready-to-use settings, libraries and dependencies. Choose between Gaming and Software environment based on the type of software you want to start. More advanced users can choose the Custom environment to configure the bottle on their own. More about... Read more
Pyramid Investment Scheme dupes $165 each from a million in India
Twenty-four persons, including three government school teachers from Telangana, who duped more than 10 lakh people to the tune of ₹1,500 crore in money circulation scheme were arrested by Cyberabad Commissionerate’s Economic Offences Wing here on Saturday.Commissioner of Police V.C. Sajjanar said that the accused were running a money circulation scheme by the name of... Read more
Drone Startup to Fly Pallets Without Pilots
A Black Swan drone, from Dronamics, stands at the ready. Delivering things by drone began as a stunt in 2012, when a model airplane dropped a burrito by parachute to a hungry customer waiting below. The concept then graduated, first to a proof-of-principle venture in Iceland using multicopters, then to a well-funded Amazon project in... Read more
Network Science by Albert-László Barabási (free textbook)(2015)
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Hotwire/Turbo and Ruby on Rails in the real world
I’ve recently been working on a new project at work which utilises Rails and Hotwire. There’s lots of articles out there about getting started with Hotwire in Rails but I couldn’t find much in the way of how to architect a Rails app in this way or how to run it in production, so this... Read more
Remote control, Even if it Can’t Boot to an Operating Syste m
You've definitely used VPN or other remote access tools like TeamViewer if you've ever needed remote access to a PC. This type of software, on the other hand, can only work within the remote machine's operating system, which means it can't access the BIOS, reboot, install an operating system, or turn on the computer. There are... Read more
Outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Norway, Nov to Dec 2021
Home Eurosurveillance Volume 26, Issue 50, 16/Dec/2021 Article Rapid communication Open Access http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101147 Like 0 Access full text Article Lin T. Brandal1,* , Emily MacDonald1,* , Lamprini Veneti1 , Tine Ravlo2 , Heidi Lange1 , Umaer Naseer1 , Siri Feruglio1 , Karoline Bragstad1 , Olav Hungnes1 , Liz E. Ødeskaug1 , Frode Hagen2 , Kristian... Read more
A sublime landscape: New model explains Pluto’s lumpy plains
Unfreezing — The convection thought to drive the area's geology may come from cooling, not heat. John Timmer - Dec 17, 2021 1:21 pm UTC Enlarge / The polygons of Sputnik Planitium. Expectations for active geology on Pluto were pretty low prior to the arrival of the New Horizons probe. But the photos that came... Read more
A Search for Analogs of Boyajian’s Star: A Second List of Candidates
[Submitted on 1 Nov 2021] Download PDF Abstract: In data from the Kepler mission, the normal F3V star KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's star) was observed to exhibit infrequent dips in brightness that have not been satisfactorily explained. A previous paper reported the first results of a search for other similar stars in a limited region of... Read more
Treevis.net
treevis.net - A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization 2.0 by Hans-Jörg Schulz Dimensionality Representation Alignment Fulltext Search Techniques Shown all 2D 3D hybrid all explicit implicit hybrid all axis-parallel radial free --- Join the pack! Join 8000+ others registered users, and get chat, make groups,... Read more