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This story describes how our small engineering team tackled a challenging project for a museum seeking an app to match car illustrations on their exhibition walls to related content. Initially planning to use web-AR technology, we faced limitations and pivoted to a MobileNet image classification model. Despite challenges with transfer learning and data augmentation, we […]
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I have created a handcrafted pendant with a realtime FLIP fluid simulation enclosed in gold plating, watch glass protected. Check out my video to see the design and construction process. Inspired by volumetric display animations, I aimed to create a 3D snowglobe effect. The surprises along the way led to innovations like diagonal charlieplexing, reducing […]
Shavarsh Karapetyan is a retired Soviet finswimmer known for his heroic act of saving 20 lives in a 1976 bus incident in Armenia. He dove into sewage-infested waters to rescue passengers from a sinking trolleybus. Despite developing pneumonia and sepsis from his injuries, Karapetyan set a world record despite lung complications. He became a renowned […]
Ohtani Shohei, a Japanese baseball star, is known for picking up litter after games, exemplifying Japan’s orderliness. Some credit this cultural trait to the discipline instilled in Japanese primary schools. The article explores the unique art of child-rearing in Japan, shedding light on the country’s polite queuing and obedience to green lights. In another surprising […]
TL;DR – Voyage introduces voyage-code-3, an advanced embedding model for code retrieval that outperforms OpenAI-v3-large and CodeSage-large by 13.80% and 16.81% on 32 datasets. It supports smaller dimensions, Matryoshka learning, and quantized formats, reducing storage and search costs. The model can handle various embedding quantizations, including int8, uint8, binary, and ubinary, with a extended context […]
Webtop offers Alpine, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch based containers with full desktop environments accessible through any modern web browser. The docker manifest ensures multi-platform support. Users can pull specific architecture images via tags. Each flavor provides various versions; exercise caution with unstable tags. Security is a concern, as the default container has no authentication. To […]
On January 13, 2025, a configuration change caused an incident with Git operations, resulting in unavailable services between 23:35 UTC and 00:24 UTC. The issue was resolved by rolling back the configuration change. The company is working on improving monitoring and deployment practices to prevent similar problems in the future. Additionally, there were updates on […]
The data exfiltrated to an attacker-owned website hints at a possible dependency confusion attack on Cursor.com. The malicious NPM packages “cursor-always-local,” “cursor-retrieval,” and “cursor-shadow-workspace” are designed to send data to the attacker. Fortunately, the OpenSSF scanner flagged these packages as malicious, generating malware advisories MAL-2025-27, MAL-2025-28, and MAL-2025-29. The NPM package metadata reveals the culprit […]
The demolition of the car seen in the footage is carefully orchestrated, with Keaton potentially releasing the cab at just the right moment. Surprisingly, the car does not have an engine, and there is speculation about a sprung steering mechanism assisting the demolition. Keaton’s actions and the structural movements of the car are analyzed frame […]
In the early 1900s, George Hill and Cass Gilbert revolutionized modern architecture by emphasizing the importance of efficiency over unnecessary ornamentation. The transition from intricate stonework to simplistic glass curtain walls in skyscraper design was not solely due to modernist architects’ influence, but also driven by real estate developers seeking cost-effective and profitable structures. Developers […]