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You might also note that in their first blog post they use the French language convention of puting a space before their exclamation marks and in this latest post they use the Engl…

Here is the first video I saw posted on the aviation subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1is1qoy/video_of_...

"I don't really know any high level programming languages, I really only know python."

Excuse me, have you never "perceived" a lie before?

> ...the sensor & motor portion of the human brain having had billions of years of experience. It doesn't really change the significance of the quote, but I can't help but point ou…

The way most people refer to this is "driving on autopilot."

Alaska was never really fully under ice. If you look at this picture of the Laurentide ice sheet [1] during the last glacial maximum [2] then that shows the most Alaska was covered…

Wow, shots fired at low income housing.

"Between 2009 and 2012" fits with the Kony 2012 documentary.

OP was suggesting a way to artificially control the temperature, so they would artificially add energy to raise temperature.

You seem to have interpreted the analogy as meaning "you might run out of turtles" instead of something like: "stacks of turtles aren't stable without stable beneath them, no matte…

OpenCV was not the "AI" here, the "AI" was a computer vision model trained at the roboflow website that he mentioned multiple times and that he used in the line commented with "# D…

No the opencv was just to capture video frames and they were iediately passed to the roboflow model through the ssh client.

>Rather coyly, Stanmore refuses to weigh in on the efficacy of such spells. “It is not my place to say whether the magic practiced by cunning folk was real,” she writes: “I don’t k…

Well sure, but whatever extra step you use to encode you will also need as an extra step to decode.

Of course. the first image of the blog post shows that you can "paint over" the largely unused area and you don't lose much of your original image. The hidden watermarks make use o…

"counterfeit presentment" is an interesting phrase to use to refer to a statue. I see there's a play by that same name written the same decade but it was actually written six years…

There's no artificial barriers being errected here by deciding to say "8" instead of writing out 8 zeros.

I found this article really odd. I thought for the majority of it that the author was conflating "goodness" of music with "survival". Saying all these songs disappeared into obscur…

Do you mean converting the RGB value to LAB values in the CIELAB color space and doing the interpellation there? Is there a better way to do it?

I read the article in reader mode so I didn't see the video. After I went back to check out the video I was surprised that the submerged paddle were going in a circle instead of a …

>Using images from seismic reflection surveys and ground truth data from drilling efforts in the Gulf of Alaska, researchers uncovered the existence of the slide, as well as the se…

You are potentially talking about this one from March this year. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4

Nice example of a fencepost error.