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On April 1, 2024, the author delves into the heart of the Super Nintendo system by exploring its clock generators and oscillators. They reveal the discrepancies between the official documentation and what they observed on the motherboard, pointing out the adjustable capacitor that fine-tunes the CPU/PPU oscillator. The author also discusses the dividers that create […]
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Austin Health clinicians have implanted an electrical nerve stimulation device into a patient with Crohn’s disease, a world-first collaboration with the Bionics Institute, The Florey, and The University of Melbourne. This device aims to prevent inflammation recurring after surgery and could potentially put Crohn’s sufferers into long-term remission, avoiding the cycle of surgery and recovery. […]
Celest allows you to build your backend features in Dart without the need for additional packages or tooling. You can quickly test changes with celest start and easily deploy updates with celest deploy. The platform offers serverless functions, user authentication options, data management, fine-grained access controls, and global content serving. Celest is always free with […]
In Japan, ancient stone tablets along the coastline warn of the dangers of tsunamis, urging locals to build their homes high above the designated warning point. These so-called “tsunami stones” serve as reminders from past generations who experienced devastating tsunamis. While some communities have heeded the warnings and climbed to safety during recent disasters, others […]
The hjkl keys used in Vim as arrow keys originate from the ADM-3A terminal that Bill Joy used when creating the vi text editor. The position of these keys on the terminal allowed for easy reuse in Vim. Additionally, the ESC key’s close proximity to the hjkl keys on the terminal made it the perfect […]
It’s April Cools, where we dive into unique content beyond cringe comedy like my exploration of the name Daniel. With over 1.5 million Daniels in the US, it’s a modern and surprisingly ancient name. From the Egyptian Middle Kingdom to the forgotten Ugaritic city, traces of Daniel have been found, linking cultures over 3400 years. […]
The article delves into the intricate design and mechanisms behind popular electrical baby toys from companies like VTech and Clementoni. For example, the Baby Clementoni puzzle board uses a unique combination of switches and plastic pieces to emit charming sounds when placed correctly. VTech toys, on the other hand, use a complex system of bit […]
TL;DR: The author built an AI tax advisor called Tax Driver using GPT-4 and the open-source library Open Tax Solver to explore tax scenarios. Tax Driver is capable of evaluating various tax scenarios but can be inconsistent and miss the mark at times. While it can generate code and provide solid analyses with some coaching, […]
The author argues that programming paradigms are no longer as relevant in modern programming languages, as almost all languages now incorporate features from multiple paradigms. This has led to the emergence of so-called post-paradigm languages like Rust, Nim, and Gleam, which draw on the best features of past languages without limiting programmers to a single […]
In this study, Mini-Gemini is introduced as a framework to enhance Vision Language Models (VLMs) by focusing on high-resolution visual tokens, high-quality data, and VLM-guided generation. The aim is to bridge the performance gap compared to advanced models like GPT-4 and Gemini. Mini-Gemini supports a range of Language Models from 2B to 34B and has […]