Truly what is better than dropping and breaking a new toner cartridge.
I'm not sure this is useful but guess I'll pass it along.
Apparently politicians and marketers are sometimes less than truthful? Weird.
#information #literacy
On the one hand, yay electrify everything. However I'm wondering about the cost/benefit on already heavy vehicles going EV. The added weight will cause almost geometrically more road damage and a lot more tire wear (particles==bad). Versus SULEV/hybrid.
School bus does seem like a great candidate for today's battery tech. Gonna call this a win.
#climate #EV
https://investors.blue-bird.com/news-financial-reporting/press-releases/news-details/2023/Blue-Bird-Premieres-Next-Generation-Electric-School-Bus-at-STN-Expo-West/default.aspx
Y'all are going to want to log off the Internet now. The counter measures I've sent* to crush this obscenity could yield significant collateral damage.
Software resurrection of Johnny Cash singing 'Barbie Girl.'
*Kidding. Barely.
https://youtu.be/HyfQVZHmArA
Smells like cheap text classification. Gonna try this:
...we use gzip with a compressor-
based distance metric to do text classification.
Our method achieves an accuracy comparable to non-pretrained neural network classifiers on in-
distribution datasets and outperforms both pre-trained and non-pretrained models on out-of-
distribution datasets. We also find that our method has greater advantages under few-shot settings.
#nlp #programming
https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/
@Brisse Don't know much about 3D printing so apologies if this is old hat. New to me, dropped an image on it, got an stl file. can be flat, curved, etc
Image to lithophane
https://3dp.rocks/lithophane/
Do you like watching videos on YouTube but want an intuitive, feature-rich and privacy friendly app for that? Open source Android client:
#foss #youtube #privacy #software
https://newpipe.net/
Google’s head of AR software quits, citing “unstable commitment and vision”
Departure follows layoffs, project cancellations, and other chaos.
Did this guy do _any_ background research before taking the job??
Not gonna lie, I'm a breather, do it all the time. But before I go outside and breathe, I check this map:
Air Pollution in World:
Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
ssshhhh don't anyone tell Google they did this, they'll cancel it. They have definitely forgotten this project from 2008.
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
In case of of emergency: all available building instruction booklet PDFs from the LEGO website (As of March 2023)
#lego
https://archive.org/details/lego-set-instructions
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are marking their 77th wedding anniversary with a quiet Friday at their south Georgia home, extending their record as the longest-married first couple ever as both nonagenarians face significant health challenges.
We're witnessing next-level strategic global politics. Learning so much from Putin's 5D chess game. I'm sure the reunification step happens soon!
ideal for precision work