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The same phenomenon also applies to color blending. In a modern context this phenomenon is especially visible in UI elements that blur the background: Up until recently many UIs di…

Perhaps it's simply play drive, much like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6olQ-GGfCJE ("corgimorphization") Cuteness makes us want to hug, tease and whirl around the little b…

> Yes but consciousness is not in any way a foundation of the universe. The universe is fractally structured regarding simplicity: It is simple at its foundation upon which we find…

> Simple answer to complex problems, outside science and engineering, are almost always wrong. True, but it seems that the universe is simple at its foundation and complex in some …

The worst aspect of our universe might be that it does not care about our feelings. We have evolved to gain status in terms of competence and knowledge, but most edifices of ideas …

It can be demonstrated that GANs learn to model certain image contents with separate input variables like the presence of certain objects or 3D rotations [0] all by themselves, so …

> almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy This statement seems questionable and needs to be backed up by statistics. Looking at the front-page, the most entertaining…

ELI5: What is the consensus on the disadvantages and advantages of diesel? I've heard conflicting information on this: Some say reducing the number of cows would be much more effec…

Is there a list of the experiments and the effect sizes and how they differed from the original studies?

The Carbon X1 6G is 120 grams lighter and has much more ports. Gonna leave Apple for good. The MacBook Air was an amazing machine for the past 8 years, but Apple lost its way. Too …

Conversely, those algorithms which cannot be converted to sequential possibly only run on exotic Turing Machines like ones with infinite bands or infinite parallelism and those lik…

How out of possibly hundreds of different operations that could take the hex table and and that date in possibly 5 different date formats as arguments, would you find out that it's…

Could someone summarize this for people with reading difficulties (and for karma)?

The problem is that more technology also creates even more dangers that we would need to work on the same time. Whether we invest more or less in tech does not seem to affect the o…

How did they locate the hole?