A few days ago, I read a discussion on a YouTube video. The essence of the discussion was that memory layout and memory size matter. So, an unsigned 1 8-bit integer (or u8 in Rust) takes up less memory and thus is faster than a u128. However, someone else added a caveat: the memo … | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
"Its low ground bearing capacity also means the crane can be used all over the world." World's largest land-based crane makes monumental impact with new electric capabilities — here's how it could revolutionize the construction industry first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Today, it’s now 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Our observable Universe extends for 46.1 billion light-years in all directions, and is made of: 68% dark energy, 27% dark matter, 4.9% normal (atom-based) matter, 0.09% neutrinos, and 0.01% radiation, with no hint of … | Continue reading
Linux Mint 22 will include a Matrix web client preinstalled when released later this year. The IRC-based desktop chat app Linux Mint has been building, Jargonaut, to replace Hexchat and provide real-time communication for its users, will no longer be included (the status of any f … | Continue reading
A lot of Star Trek opinion is based on the paradoxical idea that the series within the franchise simply “get good” at some point. TNG’s not TNG until Riker has a beard, we say, ignoring all the fantastic ideas the series got into before that. The idea of Trek shows usually having … | Continue reading
Dave & Buster’s plans to add a feature to its app that will allow customers to place bets amongst themselves on competitive games, according to an announcement from the entertainment chain on Tuesday. It’s just the latest sign that tech-based gambling is becoming normalized in th … | Continue reading
Let’s consider how Joe Biden’s proposed new federal long-term capital gains tax rate of 44.6 percent would work without the inflation adjustment that other inflation-plagued economies have. We start with a California-based investor who purchased General Electric stock for $100/sh … | Continue reading
This Space-Frame series of furniture, by Berlin-based architect Gustav Düsing, was designed over a decade ago as an experiment. It's a pity it wasn't pursued further. Made of Baltic Birch plywood, the pieces could conceivably be cut on a less-than-full-size CNC mill and would obv … | Continue reading
We hope you like TVs because that’s what April had to deliver in 2024. Samsung showed off its latest Neo QLED 4K TV, while Sony refreshed its entire QLED-based Bravia lineup. Read more... | Continue reading
At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed Amazon Q Business, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With … | Continue reading
Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data… Tags: birth, NHL | Continue reading
Runner 1907–1908 UK-born, Chicago-based artist Philip Hartigan has posted a brief video piece about Franz Kafka’s drawings. Kafka, of course, wrote a body of work, mostly never published during his lifetime, that captured the absurdity and the loneliness of the newly emerging mod … | Continue reading
Photo credits: dhvstockphoto / BigStock Horizon Europe’s Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has just opened its big call for proposals for the year, with €213 million to be distributed to innovation, research and support projects across 18 topics. The calls, ope … | Continue reading
Why SQLite Uses Bytecode Brand new SQLite architecture documentation by D. Richard Hipp explaining the trade-offs between a bytecode based query plan and a tree of objects. SQLite uses the bytecode approach, which provides an important characteristic that SQLite can very easily e … | Continue reading
A new version of the open-source music player Amarok has been released, the first major update to the Qt-based media app since 2018. Amarok 3.0 is the first stable release to use Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, and work to port the music player to the the newest Qt 6 and KDE Framework … | Continue reading
We already knew Fallout was a hit; the Prime Video series based on the popular video games has already been renewed for a second season. But now we know just how much of a hit it is, raking in 65 million viewers globally during its first 16 days. Read more... | Continue reading
Based on your point of view, the AI either doesn't work or works too well. | Continue reading
A reading of the fourth Don Box tenet, with some commentary. This article is part of a series titled The four tenets of SOA revisited. In each of these articles, I'll pull one of Don Box's four tenets of service-oriented architecture (SOA) out of the original MSDN Magazine articl … | Continue reading
The ongoing designs for the Interborough Express are making me think about bus redesign again. Before the Transit Costs Project, Eric and I worked on a proposal for a bus redesign in Brooklyn, which sadly was not adopted. The redesign was based on the reality of 2017 – the riders … | Continue reading
A fine post by Ethan Marcotte called The negotiation cycle led me to an incredible essay by Alan Jacobs called From Tech Critique to Ways of Living. It references an old idea called “The SCT1” which is new to me but based on thinking by the likes of Ursula Franklin and Neil Postm … | Continue reading
Slothana (SLOTH), a Solana-based meme coin, has raised over $15 million in its presale phase, and is set to airdrop… Continue reading Slothana Meme Coin Presale Ends Monday, Airdrop On Solana In 20 Hours The post Slothana Meme Coin Presale Ends Monday, Airdrop On Solana In 20 Hou … | Continue reading
I quickly created a JSON feed for this website. While setting up Echo Feed to mirror my blog posts on the fediverse, I’ve discovered how its capabilities to fetch from RSS were more powerful with a JSON feed rather than my regular XML-based one. It’s been a while since I’ve tinke … | Continue reading
Stereotypes are like old, worn-out labels that people slap onto others without really thinking. They’re based on the idea that everyone in a certain group is the same. Artificial intelligence might be the most important technology we ever develop. Ensuring it is safe, trustworthy … | Continue reading
Tokyo Disney Resort has announced the “Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters” attraction at Tokyo Disneyland Park will be getting a transformation with a new “Wreck-It-Ralph” theme. The Details A new attraction based on the world of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film “Wreck-It Ralp … | Continue reading
Oscar Oelrich, Shutong Ding, Måns Magnusson, Aki Vehtari, and Mattias Villani write: Bayesian model comparison is often based on the posterior distribution over the set of compared models. This distribution is often observed to concentrate on a single model even … Continue readin … | Continue reading
If you thought that Excel spreadsheets were just for mind-numbing office work, think again. A gaming hobbyist has created an Excel-based RPG game that he based on the popular post-apocalyptic game Fallout. It’s the end of the world, all over again. Read more... | Continue reading
More than 50% of the patients who used a new mouth-spray-based vaccine didn't have a UTI for up to nine years. | Continue reading
Knowledge-based workers already need to skill-up to coexist with sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies. | Continue reading
King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins. Produced by Hal B. Wallis, the film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, and Vic Morrow, … | Continue reading
Public fast-charging stations are one way to push EV range anxiety out of the picture, and behavior-based solutions are also emerging. The post EV Range Anxiety: It Really Is All In Your Mind appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Redwood Materials is at the leading edge of a US-based supply chain for battery materials for electric vehicles. The post Redwood Materials Has Good News About Electric Cars appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
I really enjoy writing liner notes. I only write them for albums I like enormously, the most recent of which came out today: Lieder Ohne Worte by Marco Lucchi and Henrik Meierkord. It was released by Chitra Records, which is based in Oxford, Mississippi. The title means “songs wi … | Continue reading
The curse of an industrial designer: Slaving over details no one will get to see. It's a pity that this GO streetlight, by Zurich-based industrial designer Jörg Boner, is mounted so high up. From the ground you can't see how attractive the head is. It's made of die-cast aluminum, … | Continue reading
By Will Song The Trail of Bits cryptography team is pleased to announce the open-sourcing of our pure Rust and Go implementations of Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures (LMS), a well-studied NIST-standardized post-quantum digital signature algorithm. If you or your organization … | Continue reading
Apologies! I took down my post based on this tweet, which upon further reflection struck me as premature. Does anyone have actual word from the would-be co-author as to what happened? Note that sometimes individuals don’t want to be co-authors on particular papers, especially if … | Continue reading
It’s been a little while again! I think I like these collected updates rather than doing daily micro-dumps, and it’s also nice posting it here instead of on Mastodon or whatever. Timeline-based social media kinda bums me out these days. | Continue reading
A rep, who spoke to THR under anonymity, added that RT scores of a director’s past movies are the first and primary thing producers look at when directors are pitched to them. | Continue reading
The breakthrough could be a great win for the EV market. Scientists make breakthrough in production of salt-based battery technology: 'This process makes it easier' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Learn how Chronicle Services, a Java-based framework optimised for low-latency microservices, meets critical requirements by integrating HA, performance, and data persistence. The post The High Availability Features of Microservices using Chronicle Services appeared first on fooj … | Continue reading
President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law on Wednesday, forcing China-based Bytedance to sell the app or face a ban in American app stores. TikTok tells Gizmodo it will fight the law in court, a case likely to reach the Supreme Court, saying that Biden’s law “tramples” First … | Continue reading
Synthesia has revealed a new range of artificial intelligence (AI) generated digital avatars which can portray human emotion based on… Continue reading Nvidia-sponsored Synthesia reveals AI-generated “expressive avatars” The post Nvidia-sponsored Synthesia reveals AI-generated “e … | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
This week, I am joined by Tanya O’Callaghan, a musician, speaker, and activist, to discuss her unconventional journey from Ireland to a globally touring rock musician dedicated to advocacy. She talks about her roots volunteering at an animal shelter, her unexpected rise through L … | Continue reading
Iris Optronics, a pioneer in display technology said it will have two Cholesterol Liquid Crystal Display (ChLCD) color e-paper display solutions as well as a new product to show off at the 2024 Touch Taiwan event, Digitimes Asia reported. One of the color e-paper display technolo … | Continue reading
No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies I linked to a story the other day about book sales claiming "90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies", based on numbers released in the Penguin antitrust lawsuit. It turns out those … | Continue reading
A new version of Clapper, a GTK4-based video player for Linux desktop has been released — the first major update in nearly 2 years. I first wrote about Clapper back in 2021 having been seduced over by its slick user interface (a superficial reason to like a media player, I know), … | Continue reading