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A simple tool to extract data from PDFs and images using Google's gemini-2.0-flash-001 model.

I recently came across Barricelli reading Labatut's book "The MANIAC"

A voice from the field here (Puglia, southern Italy). I can assure you that the landscape has changed drastically in a decade. Where a few years ago you could see immense expanses …

Not to be picky, but Sora is here: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sora,_Laz...

I think mechanical ventilation (MV) is less risky and almost as effective in preventing spread of viruses. Probably, coupling MV with a boxed UV lamp (no UV radiation outside the b…

It is like quantum mechanics: the measurement process produces a perturbation of the physical system

Personally, I like very much leveldb/rocksdb. They're very fast and solid.

You're right, that is big issue. Anyway, it's a matter of a lot of things that adds up together.

An Hydro plant doesn't have the same security requirements as a nuclear one. You may think for example to shielding for ionizing radiation. It all adds up to the count.

That is not completely true. Thermodynamics tells that, overall, to produce energy, you must spend a lot more energy. You may think to the nuclear plant: it doesn't build by itself…

If you think about it, the adult-media field is scalable by design

I think being a generalist is definitely a value. In a near future, specialists will be substituted by artificial intelligence (AI). Generalists, instead, will stay at their place,…

Almost like Donald Knuth's TAOCP!

This is a good introduction to the topic: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cr00033a001

This is one of the magnetic field effect on radical pairs recombination. Once you put a magnet near the site of a chemical reaction where radical pairs are formed, the rate of the …

It seems like the story of the chicken or the egg: do these differences come from meditation or are they the reason that push people towards meditation?

This is really common in Italy. Some years ago there was also some politicians involved. They rent houses of public property for an epsilon of their price. In the palace where I li…

I'm a physicist, with a PhD in physics. I worked for a while as a post-doc in Italy and recently I quit University, working now in the private sector as a Data Scientist. I'm happy…

When I was in academia, I was involved in experiments consisting in the exposure of flies (drosophila melanogaster) to 900 MHz controlled electromagnetic fields. I participated to …

Hello people! A voice from the field here. As in most of the cases in Italy, we can say that the approach is: "the situation is hopeless, but not serious". Apart from the joke, it …

Do you know about data science competitions on https://www.kaggle.com ? There are lots of resources, codes and insightful discussions

I think the writer is overgeneralizing his particular use case. Surely, the situation he represents doesn't need any AI/ML, but it is the result of a simple use case, with little v…

maybe this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6PpPqbR4YU ?

The main advantage of this fusion reaction is that it is aneutronic, i.e. it doesn't produce any neutrons, so it is relatively safe. Petawatt class lasers are nowadays possible and…