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The 100 Days of Swift is a free online course designed to help beginners learn how to build real iOS apps using the Swift programming language. The course offers a collection of videos, tutorials, quizzes, and tests to guide learners through the program. To make the most of the course, learners must commit to two […]
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Reddit moderators participating in the protest against API changes have received messages from Reddit itself. The message implied that if subreddits are unwilling or incapable of reopening, Reddit would be willing to work with a new moderation team or process a top mod removal request. Despite previous statements that the platform would not unilaterally reopen […]
Gyroflow is a free and advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool that can be used for drone videography, cinematography and much more. It promises to bring cinematic footage to the next level with customizable video smoothing algorithms including horizon leveling. The software has a modern and flexible workflow, with native support for gyro data from multiple different […]
The Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) project, launched by the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow in 2016, has discovered a connection between cosmic radiation fluctuations and earthquakes – with the potential to help predict them. The correlation between global seismic activity and changes in the intensity of […]
Users of the website Reddit have protested the platform’s handling of hate speech and misinformation by blacking out a number of popular subreddits. Some users, however, have criticised those involved in the blackout, arguing that their real issue is with administrator Victoria Taylor’s firing, rather than an opposition to hate speech. Nonetheless, others have argued […]
After leaving his full-time job, the author reflects on the challenges of balancing a passion project with paid work. While his passion project, Marginalia Search, has come far in two years, exhaustion has set in and he is looking forward to a better work-life balance. With funding for two years, backed by a grant and […]
Illinois has established new rules regarding the use of drones by law enforcement agencies. The Drones as First Responders Act outlines the circumstances in which drones can be used, including counter-terrorism efforts, search and rescue operations, and crime and traffic scene photography. The act also requires agencies to destroy any information gathered by drones within […]
The author of the post describes his experience crawling a small but non-trivial fraction of the web. He crawled 250,113,669 pages for under $580 in 39 hours and 25 minutes, using 20 Amazon EC2 machine instances. The post details the architecture of the crawler, the use of threads, and the use of a Bloom filter. […]
TropeTwist is a system that analyzes and generates narrative structures in video games using interconnected “tropes” to create abstract and generic narrative graphs. Games are considered complex and multi-faceted systems with common elements grounded in underlying narratives. Identifying and describing these elements is a challenge as players might encounter narratives differently, and generating them requires […]
Agency is a communication framework that allows humans and AI systems to interact with each other in shared environments called “spaces”. It enables the integration of AI agents, people, and traditional computing systems. Agency simplifies the creation of applications that may mix AI, human, and traditional computing systems, in a way that is intended for […]