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This is a creative art project. Obviously, it doesn't work, and cannot work as designed. Most consumer night-vision cameras emit near-infrared light with LEDs at around 750-900nm, …

A GPU (or a cluster of GPUs) might be able to process, say, 10,000 frames in one second. This does not mean that the same GPUs can process one frame in (1/10,000) of a second. Even…

I might not fully understand the use cases of multiple cursors, but if you were trying to accomplish the same thing (change every other occurrence of "item" to "item odd") in vim, …

In the US, the top 1% own 35% of the country's total wealth.

Haha, just won- and the algorithm happened to be one that was posted on the front page of HN earlier this week! It just goes to show, there's no reason to get work done when you ca…

"Mr. Bo went to Oxford University... The current cost of that is about £26,000 a year. His current studies at Harvard's Kennedy School cost about $70,000 a year... A question raise…

If I'm not mistaken, the linked article employs the rhetorical device known as sarcasm. The point being that Timeline is not, in fact, a world-changing feature.

I would argue that ELIZA, and the chatbots that have been programmed since, are not solutions to the Turing test. Have you ever tried holding an actual conversation with a chatbot?…

From my understanding, the premise is that the 'index' generated from each crawled site will be some set of metadata smaller than the site's actual content. So instead of many robo…