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World Cup 2026 3D Experience

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e-skimo.swiss 6mo ago

The first electrical assisted E-ski mountaineering device

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www.theguardian.com 10mo ago

German remote-driving firm that hopes to make private car ownership redundant

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Google unveils masterplan for letting AI shop on your behalf

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github.com 1y ago

Claude-Flow v2.0.0 Alpha

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Kill Russian soldiers, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war?

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natesnewsletter.substack.com 1y ago

Nate B Jones Summary of Mary Meeker's 340 Page 2025 AI Trends Deck

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Trump administration to exempt smartphones and computers from China tariffs

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Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies

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The rise in 'flaking' out of social plans

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Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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waitbutwhy.com 2y ago

The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction (2015)

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Harmonious – The exhaustive chord and scale app

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The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy

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'Empathetic' AI has more to do with psychopathy than emotional intelligence

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DragonFire: Declassified footage of £10-a-shot laser precision weapon in action [video]

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Five differences between human and AI tutors

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Google Optimize Sunset

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US teens say they have new proof for 2k-year-old mathematical theorem

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Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]

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Too much free time may be almost as bad as too little

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It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings (2016)

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Fasting lowers blood pressure by reshaping the gut microbiota

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Face shields ineffective at trapping aerosols, says Japanese supercomputer

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Dynamic rendering for high LightHouse score with Nuxt

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How big are tutoring marketplaces?

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Rural Colorado residents ‘nervous’ as mysterious drones loom in sky

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The visual feedback sounds very much like the strobe feature on my guitar tuner. I think the first like this was the Stroboconn in the 1930s.

There’s a neuro-linguistic programming technique you can try to get rid of an earworm.

Picture a radio playing the song and imagine yourself slowly turning down the volume and the song getting quieter until it has gone.

This used to work for me but over time I’ve had to extend it with imagining switching the radio off at the end, unplugging it, and chucking it out the window so it smashes on the ground so no chance of it turning back on!

There’s a neuro-linguistic programming technique you can try to get rid of an earworm.

Picture a radio playing the song and imagine yourself slowly turning down the volume and the song getting quieter until it has gone.

This used to work for me but over time I’ve had to extend it with imagining switching the radio off at the end, unplugging it, and chucking it out the window so it smashes on the ground so no chance of it turning back on!

FFmpeg by Example 2 years ago

Perhaps small enough to include in ffmpeg itself so you can just write commands `ffmpeg do this thing I want`.

Now I say this, it seems like there should already be a shell that is also an LLM where you can mix bits of commands you vaguely remember and natural language a bit like Del Boy speaking French...

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We make tutoring affordable and accessible to all. We have over 10,000 tutors across the UK delivering over 13,000 lessons per week, both in person and online. We're growing fast, we like to stay lean but we need more developers!

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Even if you can calculate the layout for a very large DAG in a reasonable time, the zooming and scrolling required as a user to make sense of it and follow interesting paths makes it unwieldy in my experience. One approach to use with very large DAGs is to interactively expand / collapse nodes - for a simple tree example imagine something like a treeview control for browsing a file system, expanding folders of interest to drill down rather than viewing all expanded. For non-tree DAGs you need the layout algorithm and you might need to automatically collapse unrelated sections as you expand nodes along a path to keep the time reasonable.

This approach can be combined with lazy loading data as you expand a node as another performance enhancement.

With some effort you can add this interactivity to vis.js or d3. I have previously used a commercial product called KeyLines [1] which has this feature, uses WebGL to run the layout in gpu.

[1] https://cambridge-intelligence.com/keylines/layouts/

Are the cell sharing extensions mentioned in the slides open sourced? (Sorry if it says either way in the video, I didn't get chance to watch it in full yet). Lack of sharing / collaboration extensions for Jupyter Notebooks / Lab are still a weak point I think.

Indeed. As well as the globalisation aspect, I found the political vs economic point interesting. As the BBC article ends:

"Rather than a story of how people were competing - how do I make a faster T-shirt, a better T-shirt, a cheaper T-shirt - what I found is that the story of the T-shirt and why its life turned out the way it did was really about how people were using political power," she says. The current backlash against global trade is a direct result of this kind of political interference, she believes.