In 1967, Seymour Papert created Logo, a language known in the eighties for teaching kids programming. Fast forward to 2024, Logo still shines bright for drawing and trigonometry learning. However, due to expense and varying implementations, teaching programming with Logo wasn’t as effective. At age 9, the author created their own Logo language for their […]

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Turn your photos into personalized coloring pages, sketches, oil paintings, watercolors, and more with the help of advanced AI technology. Experience the magic of art with your own images. Try it out now and unleash your creativity. (Note: Some may find the overuse of the term “Coloring Page” controversial or annoying.)

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This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as symbolic reasoners in text-based games, focusing on tasks like math, map reading, and applying common sense. The LLM agent is designed to handle symbolic challenges and achieve in-game goals after being initialized and informed of its role. Through experimental results, it is shown that […]

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In the world of programming, understanding basic concepts like text files, memory, and memory allocation is crucial. Moving on to more advanced topics like coding for batches of data, operating in a multithreaded environment, and designing systems with multi-threading can be intimidating but rewarding. The key to successful multithreaded programming lies in minimizing synchronization, prioritizing […]

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FloatCompMandelbrot is a program that explores how floating-point precision affects Mandelbrot set images. It requires Boost::Multiprecision and RayLib for graphics, with the possibility of replacing Boost::Multiprecision with other floating-point implementations like GiMP or GMPF. The program delves into the sensitivity of initial conditions in generating Mandelbrot set images due to floating-point inaccuracies. The author questions […]

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Bluesky offers a unique approach to online moderation, aiming for user empowerment and community control. The platform introduces Ozone, an open-source collaborative moderation tool, allowing individuals and teams to review and label content across the network. Users can now run independent moderation services, enhancing control over their social media experience. Bluesky emphasizes simplicity, user choice, […]

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NVTOP is a Neat Videocard TOP, similar to htop but for GPUs and accelerators, supporting multiple vendors like AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm Adreno, among others. The interactive setup window allows customization, saving preferences is possible, and command line options are available. Notable support for AMD requires kernel version 5.14 or newer, Intel needs […]

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Late spring and early summer in the forests of the eastern U.S. have been eerily quiet for the past two years, with the absence of long-lived periodical cicadas. But this year, they are roaring back with two separate batches of cicadas emerging across the region. These cicadas have an unusual lifecycle, only emerging for mating […]

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A passenger on a LATAM Airlines flight from Australia to New Zealand described a harrowing experience after the plane suddenly dropped 500 feet. The pilot admitted to temporarily losing control of the jet due to instrument failure, leaving passengers injured and in a state of panic. The incident raises concerns about the safety of Boeing […]

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The content discusses streaming data from databases to users using named pipes, specifically with DuckDB and JSON-formatted results. A bug in how Go handles reading data from pipes was discovered during the process. The bug caused the code to block on pipe.Read() on M1 Macs, but strangely worked on Linux without time.Sleep() in the writer. […]

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