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Paleontologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in northern British Columbia, uncovering over 90 dinosaur fossil bones in the rough terrain of the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park. The fossils are believed to be 66 to 68 million years old and could potentially belong to a species yet to be described. This finding expands the understanding […]
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The author explored an old codebase and came across a regex referencing various protocols including HTTP, FTP, and the obscure DICT protocol for querying dictionaries on the Internet. While the use of such servers was popular in the past, it has declined with the advent of search engines and larger databases. However, the author provides […]
Hy 1.0.0 has been released after 12 years of development. This Lisp dialect embedded in Python can be found at Hylang.org. The NEWS file offers a detailed version history, while the HYPE POST provides a less serious take on things. Moving forward, major version number increases will signify breaking changes to documented parts of the […]
Getting Started in Social Situations teaches that making friends is more complicated as an adult than as a child. Tips are provided for starting conversations with strangers, which can also apply to those you already know. Rejection is a possibility, but it shouldn’t be taken personally. Initiating conversations may be seen as rude in some […]
The author faced a difficult issue with an application not shutting down correctly due to segfaults or termination without exceptions. This article addresses this issue by adding runtime instrumentation from gcc to log destructors. With example code and setup instructions, it helped identify leftover code from a closed-source framework causing the shutdown problem. The author […]
In this paper, researchers focus on developing a secure steganography technique called Pulsar for diffusion models, commonly used in high-quality image synthesis. They highlight the limitations of text-based generative models in supporting steganography and propose using variance noise during image generation as a steganographic channel. The Pulsar construction allows for embedding approximately 320-613 bytes of […]
Quantum entanglement is a mind-bending phenomenon in quantum physics where the state of one particle is tied to another, no matter the distance. Recently, the ATLAS collaboration observed quantum entanglement between top quarks at the highest energies ever seen at the Large Hadron Collider. This groundbreaking discovery, also confirmed by the CMS collaboration, opens new […]
Infineon’s new PASCO2V15 sensor, based on photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS), offers highly accurate carbon dioxide detection in building environments to improve air quality. The sensor architecture minimizes the need for optical components, enhancing stability and reducing size. It features pressure compensation capabilities, automatic baseline offset correction, and forced compensation for recalibration. The sensor operates on 5 […]
Particles are the foundation of everything in the universe but, surprisingly, their true nature remains a mystery. Physicists have diverse and conflicting descriptions of particles, highlighting the complicated and abstract nature of these fundamental building blocks. Whether a collapsed wave function, a quantum excitation of a field, or an irreducible representation of a group, the […]
Nicolas P. Rougier’s web content discusses the vast landscape of scientific visualization tools in Python, highlighting Matplotlib as a versatile and powerful library suitable for various applications. The book is organized into four parts covering fundamental principles, figure design, advanced concepts like 3D figures and optimization, and showcases. The book is available for free on […]