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Brice Ménard, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and a researcher at Anthropic, explains how he worked with Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in UV light. The map will be a valuable educational tool, allowing students to see in detail the rich structure of the Milky Way visible at this wavelength.

Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces – and home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces – this is the place!

This cross platform rendering engine’s website doesn’t render well at all on Chrome on Android

back to web 1.0! Nice anyway :)

Christine lagarde was found guilty of negligence, in favor of someone else. Marine Le Pen was found guilty of deliberately embezzling money for her own party. The cases are in no way comparable.

At least in France, the courts are independent of the executive.

“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.

n everyday language, words are constantly being created, and these words either persist or disappear. Although this phenomenon has been the subject of much linguistic research, the factors which influence the fate of a new word remain largely unknown, partly because of the difficulty of recording spontaneous language use over time. Examining the varieties of language used on social media allows us to overcome these limitations. We collected over 650 million tweets written in French, covering several years of ordinary interactions between 2.5 million users. We also collected the network of social links between these users. We identified nearly 400 words that appeared in the corpus between 2012 and 2014, and tracked their diffusion over 5 years within the network of users. Some of these words lead to changes, while others generate only ephemeral buzz. By looking at the position in the network of users who adopt these innovations, we show that words adopted by users who are more central in their community and easily in contact with other communities become established in the language, and vice versa. Thus, the position in the network of speakers who adopt these words is enough to predict their fate.

C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (18 May 1954 – 16 August 2024) was an American medieval German philologist and markup language specialist. He was co-editor of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 spec (1998), and chair of the XML Schema working group.

Very distinct strategies can be deployed to recognize and characterize an unknown environment or a shape. A recent and promising approach, especially in robotics, is to reduce the complexity of the exploratory units to a minimum. Here, we show that this frugal strategy can be taken to the extreme by exploiting the power of statistical geometry and introducing different invariant features. We show that an elementary robot devoid of any orientation or location system, exploring randomly, can access global information about an environment such as the values of the explored area and perimeter. The explored shapes are of arbitrary geometry and may even nonconnected. From a dictionary, this most simple robot can thus identify various shapes such as famous monuments and even read a text.

The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of protests by members of the LGBTQ community[note 1] in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Yesterday, OpenAI announced the most important AI model yet in 2024: Sora, a state-of-the-art (SOTA) text-to-video model that can generate high-quality, high-fidelity 1-minute videos with different aspect ratios and resolutions. Calling it SOTA is an understatement; Sora is miles ahead of anything else in the space. It’s general, scalable, and it’s also… a world simulator?

A department of poultry science?