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The demoscene has provided our community with its artistic outlet since the first computers which could handle graphics, and has stayed at the forefront of technology all the way. For all that though, there’s a frontier it hasn’t yet entirely conquered, which exists in the realm of silicon. To address this [comes] the ever awesome…
I thought it would be nice to put together my own introductory guide, and in the process improve my own understanding. After a lot of reading, and a lot of questions answered by my excellent colleague Dr Amy Hughes, I’ve put something together that covers some of what I was hoping. https://mcla.ug/blog/qc-intro.html
I’ve been a critic of Musk since long before it was popular for people in media. It was obvious long before his acquisition of Twitter that Musk was a bad person who mistreated his partners, his workers, and was selling a false persona to the public. But far too few people would call it out…
This is a great intro into why these dudes (always dudes) think the way they do. In a New Zealand context, David Seymour shows many of the same characteristics.
The reviled NZ citizen, Peter Thiel, has a bit of a set back… but I’m taking the wins where I can. US tech billionaire Peter Thiel appears to have abandoned his plans to build a 330m-long luxury lodge overlooking Lake Wānaka. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523397/us-billionaire-peter-thiel-abandons-lake-wanaka-lodge-build Now our utterly tone deaf PM will berate NZ for being so backward…
Watching JD Vance unravel has given me lots to think about. Reflecting on the weird men that Thiel seems to boost, I’ve come to a conclusion on why he’s so bad at politics. Money and Misanthropy Based on image by Androidmarsexpress – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93026655 Thiel uses money has a cudgel. He…
Researchers have found that the buildup of AI-generated content on the web is set to “collapse” machine learning models unless the industry can mitigate the risks. The University of Oxford team found that using AI-generated datasets to train future models may generate gibberish, a concept known as model collapse. In one example, a model started…
Alvin Chang of The Pudding used hard data to examine how the tone of science fiction in books, films, television shows, and video has changed over the past 70 years.
In short, only one company—SpaceX—is thriving in NASA’s commercial space ecosystem. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/spacex-just-stomped-the-competition-for-a-new-contract-thats-not-great/ There seems to be a whiff of regulatory capture…
So. I fell down a rabbit hole last month. I was writing python to talk to a motion control platform using raw TCP messages. I was doing this on Windows (don’t ask). My initial prototyping worked just fine, but as soon as I went to integrate the work into a PyQt app is started to…
I’m on record as a critic of Thiel. The way the NZ govt and rich “technologists” brainlessly gifted him citizenship makes me want to vomit. Having said that, there is no denying his capabilities… … and yet, here’s the question: What has he surrounded himself with weird dipshits? It’s a weird blind spot. Does he…
Many thanks to Prasanth Chaduvula for putting this down in writing: CSS units are used to style the HTML elements by specifying the size, position, and other properties of HTML elements. There are several types of CSS units like rem, em, px, vh, vw, percentage and each with its own specific use case. CSS units…
Here we go again… except for your mental health
What would it cost to bootstrap an art movement? There were unique conditions in place that allowed post-punk to manifest itself in the late 70s. This video essay on the fortuitous overlap of free education, social democracy and punk rock sensibilities calls the resulting attitude and period “popular modernism”, a term coined by the late…
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