Thursday, December 17, 2020

Gaia’s stellar motion for the next 1.6 million years

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  https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/edr3-startrails The stars are constantly moving across the sky. Known as proper motion, this motion i...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Cameras and Lenses

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 https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ Over the course of this article we’ll build a simple camera from first principles. Our first ste...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole

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 https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole Smart devices manufacturers often “hard-code” in a public DNS server, like Google’s 8.8.8.8, and...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

AI Generated Music

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 https://dadabots.com/music.php We started with the original SampleRNN research code in theano. It's a hierarchical LSTM network. LSTMs ...
Monday, November 30, 2020

DeepMind Solved Protein Folding

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https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology We have been stuck on this one problem – ...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Three Fun Maps About Electricity Usage

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https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/US-MIDA-PJM https://openinframap.org/#7.94/39.769/-75.037/L,P,S https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/#/stat...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Reverse engineering my cable modem and turning it into an SDR

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 https://stdw.github.io/cm-sdr/ This is the type of nerdy hacking that makes me jealous. After removing a few screws from the plastic housin...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

The economics of vending machines

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 https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-vending-machines/ It is estimated that roughly ⅓ of the world’s ~15m vending machines are located in...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Test if your email is letting the sender know when you view an email

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There are a ton of ways companies can track if you view an email .  This site tests which of these methods work even if you are blocking ima...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Social Cooling

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 https://www.socialcooling.com/