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The hardware is a helmet with a buch of sensors and IR LEDs on the inside. There's a writeup of the process and a picture of the outside here: https://condu.it/thought/10k-hours Th…

Also worth reading is the blog post by the Cloudflare CIO Sam Rhea on how they are actually using it internally, with some examples. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-ai-with-…

Cloudpunk and its sequel City of Ghosts should be on the list. Very laid back games heavy on charming atmosphere with a great soundtrack. The voxel city design is excellent. https:…

The feedback from the VC crowd is that the historical 5 year startup timeline is down to 18 months these days. That means finding PMF, funding rounds, hiring and scaling to $25 mil…

Define easily. There is an approach that apparently works and is based on spectral analysis of the images. https://github.com/aloshdenny/reverse-SynthID

His RISKS Digest should be required reading for anybody studying computer and software engineering. RIP Peter.

It's partly the weight that made the 11" MacBook Air great: MacBook Air: 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs) MacBook Neo: 1.23 kg (2.70 lbs)

Thomas Wake: "Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with…

See also: Clarkson's Farm [0], for some of the messy reality of running an actual modern farm in England (though edited for entertainment value). I suspect the current AIs are not …

You could mod the game with more varied events, which were of course AI generated to begin with. Bit of an inception scenario where AI plays an AI modded game. The other option is …

I'll go further. Ignore the Perl specific bits and Conway's "Perl Best Practices" is one of the best general programming books ever written. It has so many great pieces of advice t…

Global rollout of security code on a timeframe of seconds is part of Cloudflare's value proposition. In this case they got unlucky with an incident before they finished work on pla…

My armchair is equally comfy, and I have an actual paper to point to: Jaxley: Differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynami…

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I'll second that recommendation. One of the more interesting videos is AI creating utopian and dystopian worlds in Minecraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnQvdypW_I Invokes sha…

More discussion on Ubuntu forums https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/problem-with-updates-error-fa...

The worst part is that they marked the incident as resolved after 32 minutes, but didn't mention that mirrors for the packages on security.ubuntu.com have huge queues. OK fine, we …