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Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modelling to determine the cause of an extreme ice-age climate over 700 million years ago. The study, published in Geology, reveals that historically low volcanic carbon dioxide emissions and weathering of volcanic rocks in Canada caused the Earth to be completely frozen over. The glaciation, known as the Sturtian […]
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Factorio SAT enhances the Factorio gaming experience by using SAT solvers. The process begins by selecting the size of the balancer. The tiles are then represented as a list of boolean variables, indicating various properties such as input direction, output direction, underground state, and more. Clauses are written to impose constraints on the solutions, ensuring […]
The European Court of Human Rights has issued a ruling banning any actions that would weaken secure end-to-end encryption. The judgment argues that encryption is crucial in protecting citizens and companies from hacking, identity theft, fraud, and unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. The Court also emphasized that backdoors in encryption could be exploited by criminal […]
The use of digital devices is increasingly replacing traditional handwriting in classrooms. While typing is recommended for young children due to its ease and ability to express themselves in writing at an earlier stage, handwriting training has proven to have numerous benefits for learning. Research shows that accurate coordination of hand movements while shaping each […]
Broadcom, since acquiring VMware, has been implementing significant changes to personnel and products. This includes laying off employees, discontinuing perpetually licensed versions of VMware products, and ending partner programs. In addition, Broadcom is discontinuing the free version of VMware’s vSphere Hypervisor, also known as ESXi. ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor that allows users to divide […]
Nokia’s strategy in the phone market during 2000-10 was incredibly ambitious, launching over fifty models in just one year. These models covered a wide range of categories, from business-centric to music-centric to camera-centric. Nokia experimented with various display types and body designs, including unconventional ones like the “lipstick” phone. However, this excessive variety created an […]
Joy Milne, a woman with an extraordinary sense of smell, discovered that she could detect Parkinson’s disease on her husband, Les, more than a decade before it was officially diagnosed. Les had a distinct odor that Joy noticed when he was 31. Years later, Joy attended a support group for Parkinson’s and realized that others […]
Polars is a query engine with a DataFrame frontend that aims to simplify the querying process for its users. It prioritizes query performance while abstracting away the complexities of its internals. This blog post provides a high-level overview of how Polars works, focusing on the execution of a query. The blog post also discusses the […]
Stable Cascade is an official codebase that provides training and inference scripts, as well as different models for text-to-image generation. The main difference of Stable Cascade compared to other models like Stable Diffusion is its smaller latent space, which allows for faster inference and more cost-effective training. With a compression factor of 42, Stable Cascade […]
IBM celebrated its 100th birthday in February 2024, marking a century of innovation and leadership in the world of computing and IT. The company’s origins can be traced back to the late 1800s when businesses like typewriters, adding machines, and cash registers emerged to mechanize information. Three companies survived the wave of competition and eventually […]