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https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04178

Lectures on Faster-than-Light Travel and Time Travel
Barak Shoshany

These lecture notes were prepared for a 25-hour course for advanced undergraduate students participating in Perimeter Institute's Undergraduate Summer Program. The lectures cover some of what is currently known about the possibility of superluminal travel and time travel within the context of established science, that is, general relativity and quantum field theory.
How to professionally say

A guide for your daily "professional" interactions
(not really, try at your own risk)

https://howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com/
Finally got this!
For more info about this visit - https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
Now for fun, I'm asking y'all to write a prompt and if it feels good enough, I'll type it in and share the image with everyone. Let's get started 🌄
Cracking-Android-Pattern-Lock-in-Five-Attempts.pdf
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Pattern unlock is extremely insecure and should be avoided at all cost. This is discussed in detail in the Cracking Android Pattern Lock in Five Attempts research paper.
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https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source

DreamWorks Animation has just announced their intent to release their proprietary production renderer, MoonRay, as open source software later this year.  MoonRay is DreamWorks’ state-of-the-art MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Croods: A New Age, The Bad Guys, as well as the upcoming Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, which hits theaters December 21.  MoonRay was developed by DreamWorks’ world-class engineers, and includes an extensive library of production-tested, physically based materials, a USD Hydra render delegate, multi-machine and cloud rendering via Arras
https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/

HTML but with brains.
Easily migrate templates, include or extend html files, do calculations and even loop through items and dynamically show them in a much faster and easier way. Pair up with a site generator or your own framework to have a productive environment.
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https://axbom.com/world-map/

Given that the people who claim ownership and ensure distribution of this map have historically been white and rich representatives of the countries in the northern hemisphere, we may have a clue to the reason for its persistence. Why would any of these representatives and leaders have wanted their countries to suddenly appear smaller in favor of poorer countries? But perhaps more obviously: the map is centered on Europe and is a source for adopting global east and west naming conventions.
In 1963, a man knocked down a wall in his basement and discovered a mysterious underground city. The subterranean city is up to 18 stories and 280 feet deep in places and probably thousands of years old. The Derinkuyu Underground City is the largest of its kind: It could house 20,000 people.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/derinkuyu-underground-city/
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Richest billionaire in each country

In better quality

Of the more than 200 countries in the world, only around 70 are home to billionaires.
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Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children

https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/10/video-gaming-may-be-associated-with-better-cognitive-performance-in-children

The researchers found that the children who reported playing video games for three or more hours per day were faster and more accurate on both cognitive tasks than those who never played.
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