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Flexbox Froggy is a fun and engaging online game created by Codepip. With various difficulty levels and language options, this game caters to beginners as well as intermediate users. It doesn’t provide any specific directions, allowing users to explore and learn flexbox through trial and error. Surprisingly, Flexbox Froggy also offers a colorblind mode for […]
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Behavioral economist Dan Ariely discusses his personal experience with pain and hospitalization, highlighting how it influenced his research on human behavior. He describes his experiments on the manipulation of unpleasant experiences and how they can affect people’s perception of pain. Ariely also delves into his career as a behavioral economist, which he believes involves managing […]
The PruningRadixTrie is a revolutionary data structure that is derived from a radix trie, but is three orders of magnitude faster. It allows for pruning of the trie and early termination of the lookup, resulting in a significant reduction in lookup time for the top-k most relevant terms. This is particularly useful for auto-complete and […]
Summary: The author came across a discussion about a CSS update called “textarea { form-sizing: normal; }”. They found it to be a strange name choice but saw that it was already available in Chrome Canary with the “web experiments” flag enabled. Adam, the author, thinks it is useful and hopes it will be usable […]
Every year, Lubna Dada and her colleagues gather at CERN in Switzerland to conduct experiments on cloud formation. Clouds are a major source of uncertainty in climate predictions, impacting heat absorption and reflection. Dada’s team has discovered that trees release chemicals called sesquiterpenes, which are highly effective in seeding clouds. This finding suggests that trees […]
In the depths of the Mariana Trench, scientists have discovered a plastic bag, now deemed the deepest known piece of plastic trash. This finding comes from a recent study using the Deep-Sea Debris Database, which contains photos and videos taken over the past 30 years. Plastic was found to be the most prevalent type of […]
A new study conducted by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has found a possible association between autism diagnosis in boys and the daily consumption of diet soda or aspartame by their mothers during pregnancy or breastfeeding. The study, published in Nutrients, revealed that boys with autism were more […]
This year marks significant anniversaries for Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu, both marking the 60th anniversary of his death and the 120th anniversary of his birth. Ozu is best known for his post-World War II family dramas, such as “Tokyo Story.” However, he also made two slapstick comedy shorts in the late 1920s that were […]
This quarterly update of the esp-rs effort highlights the progress made in Q3 2023. One major bugfix was made for the hardware floating point unit for ESP32 & ESP32-S3, with credit given to @zRedShift for discovering and fixing the bug. Additionally, @zRedShift contributed two patches to improve code generation for cttz, abs, min, and max […]
In this article, the author discusses the need to migrate legacy codes optimized for Arm or x86 SIMD Intrinsics to the new RISC-V Vector Extensions (RVV). The current manual rewriting process for migrating NEON code to RVV code is time-consuming and error-prone. To address this, the author proposes enhancing the open source tool called “SIMD […]