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A recent study published in Nature Machine Intelligence suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can help improve the quality and reliability of references in Wikipedia entries. The study developed a neural-network-powered system called SIDE, which analyzes whether references support the claims they are associated with and suggests better alternatives for those that don’t. SIDE is trained […]
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This website is a faithful reproduction and restoration of John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds, an impressive work of ornithological art and science. Originally published in six volumes between 1848 and 1887, the Monograph depicts and describes all known species of hummingbirds at the time. It consists of five volumes, […]
Two Iowa police officers are suing a teenager they arrested last year after the body-cam footage of the allegedly unwarranted arrest he posted on YouTube went viral. The officers claimed “emotional distress” and are now suing for defamation and invasion of privacy. The teenager had sued the Newton Police Department earlier this year, alleging false […]
This guide provides various ways to create hexagonal grids, along with their relationships and common formulas and algorithms. The author has been collecting hex grid resources for over 25 years and presents the most elegant approaches that result in simple code. The guide includes interactive sections on geometry, coordinate systems, conversions, neighbors, distances, line drawing, […]
The author of this web content discusses their creation of a 2D flappy bird game written purely in Typescript type annotations. They explain that Typescript types are Turing complete and that they have developed a type-level Typescript runtime using Zig. The game’s code is surprisingly simple, as it operates by threading the game state through […]
Postgres, a battle-tested and scalable software, is highly valued by the author despite its slower speed in introducing new features and limitations with adding plugins and migrating to new versions. One notable missing feature is data versioning, which the author has had to add manually multiple times in different ways. After exploring alternatives and considering […]
In late 2022 and 2023, an audit was conducted on terminal emulators, specifically focusing on open source software, to identify vulnerabilities. The results of this work uncovered 10 CVEs that could potentially lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE) in terminal emulators, along with other bugs and opportunities for hardening. Several new methods of exploiting these […]
In this web content, the author discusses the architectural aspects of the film Die Hard and connects it to Eyal Weizman’s essay “Lethal Theory” about the spatial techniques used by the Israeli Defense Forces in their invasion of Nablus. The author highlights the technique of “walking through walls,” where soldiers moved through buildings rather than […]
Wikipedia has millions of articles on a wide range of topics, including some that are incredibly obscure and boring. The author of this content claims to have written many of these overlooked articles, which receive very few views. By analyzing page view data, the author discovers that the least viewed pages are often disambiguation pages, […]