Norman Wildberger is the creator of rational trigonometry, an alternative to classical trigonometry. After using this beautiful theory for about 10 years, I think the main advantages for me have be…

Offline Internet Archive project. Contribute to internetarchive/dweb-mirror development by creating an account on GitHub.

Since the release of the first text-to-speech (TTS) model, researchers have been looking for ways to improve the way these systems generate speech. The

The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 web3 it's making me uncomfortable. Narratives based on zero data are accepted as self-evident. Everyone is expecting as a sure thing "civilization-altering" impact (& 100x returns on investment) in the…

Cooking on a gas stove caused asthma symptoms for an estimated 70,000 children in the Netherlands last year. That is the conclusion of two European organizations, based partly on research by TNO. Gas hobs produce carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and other…

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Text generator prompting with Boolean operators. Contribute to jeffbinder/promptarray development by creating an account on GitHub.

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several…

Krista Diamond | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,342 words) In 2012, I was working at a hotel in Glacier National Park when a man I’d just met invited me for a day of tubing and drinking beer on the river. Little did I know, I would nearly drown…

New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at ...

Last week at the AMD CES 2023 keynote hosted by Lisa Su, new 65 Watt Ryzen 7000 series processors were announced.

Summary of S.1444 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Mind Your Own Business Act of 2021

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Vello is a new GPU accelerated renderer for 2D graphics that relies heavily on compute shaders for its operation. (It was formerly known as piet-gpu, but we renamed it recently because it is no longer based on the [Piet] render context abstraction, and has…

When I first started getting successful in my 20s, I went through a period where I loaned money to anyone that asked me. Well into six figures went out — “emergency” expenses, start a business, make a down payment, etc. Most of the people just never spoke…