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Airports play a crucial role in global economies, contributing 8% to GDP and supporting businesses that rely on air transport. Despite their importance, building new airports is extremely difficult due to opposition from various interest groups. Noise pollution from jet engines was a major obstacle to airport expansion, sparking significant complaints and lawsuits. Technological innovations […]
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The author presents the first-ever map of Australian law, created by projecting every law, regulation, and case onto a two-dimensional map based on their similarity in meaning. The map reveals hidden connections and divisions within Australian law, showing an invisible barrier between cases and legislation, as well as the absence of borders between different jurisdictions. […]
Leaping Leaping’s pytest debugger is a simple, fast, and lightweight tool for Python tests. It traces code execution, allowing retroactive inspection of program states using a natural language debugger. By tracking variable changes and non-deterministic sources, Leaping provides valuable insights during testing. To install, use pip install leaping, and set OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable to your […]
Approximately 2,000 earthquakes were recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island in a single day earlier this month, sparking interest in the birth of new oceanic crust. The quakes, though relatively small and non-threatening, revealed the process of how the ocean floor pulls apart to create new crust. The Endeavour site, part of the Juan […]
Tunnelmole is a free, open-source alternative to ngrok, allowing software developers to make applications publicly accessible from their local machines without the need for SSH port forwarding or server configurations. Installation is easy with a universal installer or npm, and usage involves running the application port number through Tunnelmole. Additionally, developers can use Tunnelmole as […]
In the 1970s, two types of seismometers were installed on the Moon – Long-Period (LP) and Short-Period (SP). While LP data already revealed over 13,000 seismic events, most of the SP data remained unanalyzed due to noise. A recent study analyzed the SP data, uncovering 22,000 new seismic events, including thermal moonquakes and shallow moonquakes. […]
Safari 17.4 introduces vertical writing mode support for form control elements on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, catering to East Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The industry has committed to enhancing cross-browser support for vertical text, which can be achieved by using the CSS writing-mode property. WebKit underwent extensive changes to accommodate vertical […]
Soundry AI offers benefits such as flexibility, faster production time, and unlimited variations compared to traditional sound design methods. The AI-powered platform allows musicians to create completely unique results that resonate with their style. Partnering with Soundry enables artists to be compensated and have their sounds added to the AI model. Testimonials from Virtual Riot, […]
Grade school teachers may not have taught you how to add 20-digit numbers, but it’s easier than you think. Instead of staring at the problem and writing down the answer, you need to walk through the problem step by step in the correct way. While chatbots like ChatGPT can ace simple arithmetic questions, they struggle […]
In their research paper, authors Abdul Fatir Ansari and his colleagues present Chronos, a novel framework for pretrained probabilistic time series models. By tokenizing time series values and training transformer-based language models on them, they demonstrate significant outperformance on training datasets and comparable, sometimes superior, zero-shot performance on new datasets. This approach showcases the potential […]