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Forebruary is a revolutionary wall calendar that eliminates the need for replacement every year. It features a movable frame containing important events from history such as Dmitry Shostakovich completing the 10th Symphony in 1953 and Yury Gagarin going to space in 1961. The unique design includes a red stripe highlighting weekends, with alternative frames available […]
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This story highlights the dangers of incorrectly unpacking tar archives, with the author recounting a personal mishap during the installation process. Not realizing the file’s permissions and ownership, they extracted it as root, leading to a system crash due to directory structure changes. The advice given includes creating archives carefully to avoid current directory mishaps. […]
In 1959, at a strict Jesuit boarding school, Tom Lehrer’s irreverent songs provided a much-needed escape from the oppressive daily routine of mass, catechism, rugby, and beatings. Lehrer’s darkly funny and rebellious tunes resonated with a young student, offering a dose of nihilism and irreverence. Known as a mathematics prodigy, Lehrer’s subversive songs challenged the […]
Professor Julian Allwood from Cambridge’s Department of Engineering led research on reducing emissions from the construction industry. One challenge was the use of cement in making concrete, responsible for almost 90% of concrete emissions. Scientists developed substitutes for cement, such as using fly ash, but faced limitations due to global demand. Dr. Cyrille Dunant proposed […]
Binary embedding is a powerful technique to convert high-dimensional data into binary vectors, enabling efficient storage and computation for large-scale multimedia tasks. Compression from float32 to binary can reduce memory usage by 32 times. This blog explores integrating binary embedding in the CLIP framework to enhance multimodal retrieval and ranking performance. Test-time binary quantization impacts […]
Limited time offer for the Founders Edition, which includes a tablet, stylus, charging cable, and more. This computer is designed for outdoor use and is readable in sunlight, making it perfect for use in gardens or national parks. The device is easy on the eyes, using flicker-free blacklight technology and a paper-like finish for a […]
WinDirStat is a handy tool for Windows users to analyze disk usage and free up space. If you’re a Linux user, check out KDirStat or QDirStat, and for MacOS X, try Disk Inventory X. This program provides three views of your directory tree: a list sorted by file size, a treemap showing all contents at […]
Variable-length integers are essential for encoding small numbers efficiently, especially in TLV formats like Protocol Buffers for space optimization. Popular encodings include VLQ and LEB128, but the author developed a simpler, faster alternative named vu128 due to LEB128’s poor fit for modern processors. The vu128 format stores unsigned integers up to 128 bits in a […]
Southwest Airlines is notorious for not showing up on online travel agency websites, directing customers to their own site to save on distribution costs. Despite being one of the first e-commerce sites to hit a billion dollars in revenue, the airline has historically kept its fares and schedules private, even suing websites that displayed them […]
The author emphasizes the importance of considering accessibility in the design phase of projects rather than as an afterthought. They highlight that fixing accessibility issues later is more costly and challenging than building with accessibility in mind from the start. The content includes detailed guidelines on documenting visual design for accessibility, color contrast ratios, and […]