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Eric Ghost’s unique LSD packaging from the 1960s cleverly disguised the psychedelic substance as film stock, reflecting the era’s counterculture vision. Ghost, also known as Eric Brown, was a former military man who believed in LSD’s potential to improve individuals and society. He revolutionized LSD distribution by creating the first mechanically produced blotter paper dosed […]
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This web content discusses how to invoke a method on a class using a pointer to a method and the operator. The code example provided shows how to define and use the <- operator for this purpose, allowing you to call a method on a class with a pointer to the method. This unique approach […]
The content discusses a unique programming language called “Written in Itself”, highlighting its macro as the compiler feature. It is described as an actor language with concurrent and distributed capabilities, supporting metaobject protocol, class-based object orientation, runtime specialization, and integrated foreign function interface. It is a modern scheme implementation that adheres to current standards and […]
The content provides quick links to satellite imagery and numerical forecasts from various sources. The College of DuPage site is favored by storm chasers for its frequent updates and useful features, while Windy.com is popular for eclipse chasers. The US National Weather Service GOES Image Viewer offers comprehensive coverage, with the best long-range predictions from […]
In a project called BIG-bench, researchers tested large language models like ChatGPT on 204 tasks. Performance scaled predictability with model size, except for certain tasks where performance suddenly jumped after remaining low. This “breakthrough” behavior was likened to a phase transition in physics. However, a new paper from Stanford argues that these abilities are not […]
The author discusses unresolved problems with Wayland, highlighting issues with surface suspension and the broken FIFO implementation that lead to reduced GPU-bound performance. They argue that Wayland is currently not preferable over X11 due to severe performance and usability regressions. The author insists on reverting the default to X11 until certain protocols are released and […]
The author delves into their hobby of running Unix tools natively on Windows, with a preference for MSYS2 over WSL due to RAM usage. Prerequisites for MSYS2 installation involve avoiding spaces in the USERPROFILE path and configuring the /etc/fstab file correctly. Detailed instructions on installing and configuring GPG, Mutt, and MSMTP are provided, along with […]
Supervision offers reusable computer vision tools for tasks like loading datasets, drawing detections, and counting objects in a zone. Installation is easy with Pip, and the package is designed to be model agnostic, supporting popular libraries like Ultralytics and Transformers. Annotators and dataset utilities are highly customizable, allowing for a wide range of visualizations and […]
In 1997, Jennifer Mather received a call from Roland Anderson, her collaborator, reporting that a young octopus was playing with a floating bottle. Over the years, Mather and Anderson studied octopus behavior, noticing sophisticated actions like retrieving rocks to secure their den. Octopuses were known for their intelligence and curiosity, leading the researchers to question […]
Monolith is a data hoarder’s dream tool, bundling any web page into a single HTML file that includes CSS, images, and JavaScript assets. This allows for easy storage and sharing, replacing the need for multiple open tabs with individual HTML files. Unlike traditional methods, monolith saves all assets as data URLs, ensuring the page is […]