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Re:Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry on Saturday September 26, 2026 @11:12PM (#49863022)
Yup, the article has images behind hyperlinks if you want to see him naked. Just Ctrl+f: "the original design with everything hanging out. "
Re:The Secret Poker Game You Can Play on the Subway on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:58PM (#43105143)
You might also note that in their first blog post they use the French language convention of puting a space before their exclamation marks and in this latest post they use the English language convention of no space.

>Now I can update this blog and push to github, instant deploy !

vs

>I would be delighted to hear from you!

Here is the first video I saw posted on the aviation subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1is1qoy/video_of_...

Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:21AM (#42915503)
"I don't really know any high level programming languages, I really only know python."
Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:13PM (#42720633)
Excuse me, have you never "perceived" a lie before?
> ...the sensor & motor portion of the human brain having had billions of years of experience.

It doesn't really change the significance of the quote, but I can't help but point out that we didn't even have nerve cells more than 0.6 billion of years ago.

Re:The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @10:45AM (#42451391)
The way most people refer to this is "driving on autopilot."
Re:The Famous Bering Land Bridge Was More Like a Swamp on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @03:40AM (#42448974)
Alaska was never really fully under ice. If you look at this picture of the Laurentide ice sheet [1] during the last glacial maximum [2] then that shows the most Alaska was covered in ice which was 26 to 20 thousand years ago.

The time frame where the Bering land bridge is being looked at for the OP article is a wider 36 to 11 thousand years ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentide_ice_sheet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum

Re:Gratitude Despite the Odds on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @06:55AM (#42316615)
Wow, shots fired at low income housing.
Re:IMG_0001 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:13AM (#42315149)
"Between 2009 and 2012" fits with the Kony 2012 documentary.
Re:A simplified Python simulation of diffusion on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:08AM (#40842681)
OP was suggesting a way to artificially control the temperature, so they would artificially add energy to raise temperature.
Re:CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4 on Friday June 28, 2024 @03:21AM (#40818474)
You seem to have interpreted the analogy as meaning "you might run out of turtles" instead of something like: "stacks of turtles aren't stable without stable beneath them, no matter how many turtles you use."
OpenCV was not the "AI" here, the "AI" was a computer vision model trained at the roboflow website that he mentioned multiple times and that he used in the line commented with "# Directly pass the frames to the Roboflow model".
No the opencv was just to capture video frames and they were iediately passed to the roboflow model through the ssh client.
Re:Call Your Local Wizard on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:31PM (#40548837)
>Rather coyly, Stanmore refuses to weigh in on the efficacy of such spells. “It is not my place to say whether the magic practiced by cunning folk was real,” she writes: “I don’t know, I wasn’t there.” She does propose that all of their fellow citizens believed in the cunning folk’s powers. Many magicians had excellent reputations in the art of finding buried treasure or directing the outcome of lawsuits, and she maintains that this could only be the result of a consistent record of success.

That last line of this quote and the first line of this quote sound to me like they contradict each other.

Re:Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @03:53AM (#40364201)
Well sure, but whatever extra step you use to encode you will also need as an extra step to decode.
Re:Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:48AM (#40363204)
Of course. the first image of the blog post shows that you can "paint over" the largely unused area and you don't lose much of your original image. The hidden watermarks make use of this unused area so you can just paint over that area with blank data in order to "scrub" any hidden watermarks.
Re:The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014) on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:35PM (#40361758)
"counterfeit presentment" is an interesting phrase to use to refer to a statue. I see there's a play by that same name written the same decade but it was actually written six years later.
There's no artificial barriers being errected here by deciding to say "8" instead of writing out 8 zeros.
Re:All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:16PM (#40289464)
I found this article really odd. I thought for the majority of it that the author was conflating "goodness" of music with "survival". Saying all these songs disappeared into obscurity and that's okay because they were bad and we know they were bad because they disappeared into obscurity.

They even invoke "Survival of the Fittest" which often trips up high school kids who think fitness is strength or some other specific quality (like goodness) and you have to correct them that the definition of fitness is "that thing that gives a population survival".

Re:A 100x speedup with unsafe Python on Monday May 06, 2024 @11:33PM (#40282099)
Do you mean converting the RGB value to LAB values in the CIELAB color space and doing the interpellation there?

Is there a better way to do it?

I read the article in reader mode so I didn't see the video. After I went back to check out the video I was surprised that the submerged paddle were going in a circle instead of a straight line.

How can they say they too many birds cause the later positions to be unstable if this is their model? Don't they just run out of circumference and so they can't really model so many birds because the paddles start to overlap?

I suppose the math models the higher number of birds but they didn't 3d print that math and put it in a fish tank.

Re:A Million Years Without a Megaslide on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:02PM (#40127345)
>Using images from seismic reflection surveys and ground truth data from drilling efforts in the Gulf of Alaska, researchers uncovered the existence of the slide, as well as the seafloor topography from before and after it occurred.

I wonder why they call it "ground truth data" instead of just "data". The paper calls it "drilling data" when pointing out where they got which information.

You are potentially talking about this one from March this year.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4

Nice example of a fencepost error.
Re:Find My Device on Android on Monday April 08, 2024 @02:12PM (#39972300)
These seems like the most interesting thing to come from the post and every time you refresh the comments you will see more people asking about this feature.
Re:Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:41AM (#39864656)
Yeah lol I was poking fun at the hilarious false equivalence.
Re:Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse on Friday March 29, 2024 @10:28AM (#39864516)
First they came for the gamblers and I did not speak up because I am not a gambler.
Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:13AM (#39863088)
The final sentence of the article answers the headline with,

> “We haven’t seen an answer"

Alright.

Re:What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? on Sunday March 24, 2024 @02:45AM (#39805495)
But so that means that you could lose land or gain land if enough earth moves and the relative change to the land marks is in your favor or not. But it's just not a big enough of a deal to do it a different way. I do wonder what the most significant occurrence of that is though.

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