The image of the Panzer of the Lake is a photo of a German Panzer IV D tank that fell into the Meuse River in Houx, Belgium on May 13, 1940. The photo was taken later, possibly in 1941, by a German pioneer or tank recovery crew.
Researchers developed AlphaQubit, an AI-based decoder that accurately identifies quantum computing errors with state-of-the-art accuracy. This breakthrough could enable reliable quantum computers to solve complex problems and lead to scientific breakthroughs.
Anti-Aliasing techniques include SSAA, MSAA, MLAA, SMAA, and FXAA, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, but Analytical Anti-Aliasing offers a simpler and more effective solution by fading the shape's border by exactly one pixel. This approach preserves shape even at low resolutions and can be implemented without extra buffers or hardware requirements, making it a promising solution for ...
SQL can be used to solve various problems such as graph matching, constraint satisfaction, and model checking due to its ability to express conjunctive queries and homomorphisms. This perspective allows SQL to be seen as a model checker for first-order logic and a solver for graph homomorphism problems, making it a powerful tool for solving complex problems.
Niantic is pioneering a Large Geospatial Model that uses machine learning to understand scenes and connect them globally. This model will enable computers to perceive, comprehend, and navigate the physical world.
US road infrastructure is generally good, with over 80% of interstate highways in good or very good condition, but non-interstate roads, especially in urban areas, are often poor quality. Compared to other countries, US interstates are high-quality, but non-interstate roads are lower quality, and more data is needed to accurately compare road quality internationally.
A digital twin of St. Peter's Basilica was created using 400,000 images and AI, allowing visitors to explore it from anywhere. The project, a collaboration between the Vatican, Iconem, and Microsoft, will be available for the 2025 Holy Year Jubilee.
Alexi and Jonas from Autotab, a Chrome-based browser for complex task automation, are seeking feedback on their product. They've developed a dedicated authoring tool for intent specification and control flows to improve reliability and performance.
Distro seeks a Head of Marketing to lead all marketing channels, requiring B2B startup experience. The role is hybrid with 4 days in Palo Alto HQ, based in the Bay Area.
The term "artificial intelligence" has been misused to describe various technologies, but its history is complex, with different approaches emerging and falling out of favor over the years, including expert systems, neural networks, and probabilistic methods. The field has undergone significant shifts, from the 1980s AI winter to the current resurgence of interest in machine learning and ...
The user developed an open-source robot platform called Blossom for human-robot interaction research, which they have continued to improve and expand. The platform now includes a redesigned frame, improved telepresence interface, and conversational interaction with a language model, and has been showcased at Maker Faire Coney Island.
MIT will cover tuition costs for 80% of US families with income below $200,000. Undergraduates from families with income below $100,000 will pay nothing towards their education.
Prusa Research has shifted away from open source hardware with their new Core ONE printer, sparking disappointment among fans who valued the company's commitment to open source principles. However, the company's decision may be a necessary business move to remain competitive in the market, and their printers will still be highly hackable and upgradable.
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A Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 passed near two broken submarine cables in the Baltic Sea, slowing down before and after the incidents. Danish navy is shadowing the ship, but no boarding has occurred, and the incident is being investigated.
Antonio optimized the Rope's point translation method, resulting in a 70% speed-up and 250% throughput increase, by using a bitmask to index newline characters. He then added a similar index for tabs to improve performance, which will be used in a future update to the text editor.
Google updated its site reputation abuse policy targeting third-party content on established sites for product reviews and affiliate marketing. This change resulted in significant drops in search rankings for sites like Forbes and Time, with lost traffic estimated at $7.5 million.
The unbug crate provides macros to catch errors during debugging sessions, allowing developers to pause and log messages without having to conditionally compile them out. To use unbug, enable the feature, return or continue immediately after macro invocation, and use a debugger like VSCode with Rust Analyzer and Code LLDB extensions.
A hedge fund professional found a new library called FireDucks that significantly optimizes Pandas performance without requiring code changes. FireDucks is up to 200x faster than Pandas and leverages the C engine, proving that Python can be optimized for speed with the right tools.
The user is building a personalized content feed and wants to combine full-text search and vector similarity search using BM25, a widely used algorithm for full-text search that ranks documents based on their relevance to a query. BM25 uses four components: query terms, Inverse Document Frequency (IDF), term frequency in the document, and document length normalization, and the user can ...
UX stays out of the user's way, updates should make Ensō feel smaller/dumber (MISS – Make It Stupid, Simple). It should feel a bit like a toy (still looking for the right word here)
An ex-library book is a used book that once belonged to a public library or institution and has been discarded. It often carries library markings and may have a poor reputation due to heavy use, but can be a cheap and accessible way to own a book.
Researchers at Berkeley Lab found that retrofitting US shipping fleet to battery-electric systems could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 34-73% by 2035. Electrifying up to 85% of ships would be cost effective in 2035 with 95% electricity decarbonization.
The user is starting a new article series about Unix utilities, specifically Pipe Viewer (pv), a tool for monitoring data pipeline progress. Examples of using pv include compressing large files, timing data transfer rates, and copying large amounts of data over the network.
recur is a command-line tool that runs a command repeatedly until it succeeds or no more attempts are left with optional exponential backoff. It uses Starlark for the success condition and supports scripting with features like exit codes and total time.
Orlando Reade's book "What in Me Is Dark" explores how John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" has been reinterpreted and repurposed by various groups and individuals. The book delves into the poem's themes of slavery, rebellion, and freedom, and how they have been used to justify and challenge different ideologies.
University of Toronto researchers have developed a camera setup that visualizes light in motion one million times faster than normal, opening avenues for new 3D sensing techniques. This technology can capture ultrafast moments of a scene from multiple viewpoints and has potential applications in sensing, filmmaking, and autonomous vehicles.
GNU Artanis is a web framework written in Guile Scheme, designed for small to medium web applications. It's licensed under GPLv3+ and LGPLv3, with a pure Scheme core and a high-performance asynchronous server design.
When cable cuts occur, whether submarine or terrestrial, they often result in observable disruptions to Internet connectivity, knocking a network, city, or country offline. This is especially true when there is insufficient resilience or alternative paths — that is, when a cable is effectively a single point of failure. Associated observations of traffic loss resulting from these disruptions ...