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The BBC Corrections Page: Where Even 'Random Boring Crap' Can Be Entertaining

BBC Corrections

The BBC Corrections Page: Where Even 'Random Boring Crap' Can Be Entertaining

Take a closer look at the BBC's Corrections and Clarifications Archive for 2020, where mistakes made by even the most reputable news source are corrected.

From Sci-Fi to Reality: The Levitating Volumetric Display That Offers Tactile and Audio Feedback

From Sci-Fi to Reality: The Levitating Volumetric Display That Offers Tactile and Audio Feedback

A group of researchers has created a levitating volumetric display called the multimodal acoustic trap display (MATD) that provides an immersive experience by allowing you to touch and feel objects while delivering accompanying audio.

From Albumen Drinks to Caoutchoucs: A Deep Dive into China's Tax Code Priorities

From Albumen Drinks to Caoutchoucs: A Deep Dive into China's Tax Code Priorities

China's tax code provides insights into the country's economic priorities, as evidenced by the specific industries it promotes and restricts in the "Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries." cowritten chatgpt

Weird and Annoying Words in the English Language

Weird and Annoying Words in the English Language

English language is full of weird, annoying, and cool words that can be both baffling and fascinating. With a rich vocabulary, we can express ourselves in unique and creative ways. coauthored by ChatGPT

how starlink works

how starlink works

Modeling Starlink capacity. Prior attempts to calculate Starlink’s… | by Mike Puchol starlink.sx Where Starlink Connects to the ground a visualization by me dataset source github puchol/starlinkstatus at b779dbda1a0ba4da5a6825fa091eba4362b24a4d Author by oran collins github.com/wisehackermonkey

The Internet 2003

The Internet 2003

just the most amazing image. source:THE INTERNET — Opte created: Date: Nov 22 2003 super highrez download version content.opte.org/content/1069646562.2D.9000x9000.png Author by oran collins github.com/wisehackermonkey

Cool Email Hack. Reduce Spam

Cool Email Hack. Reduce Spam

I found this cool hack to allow you to have many spam email addresses that all route to your main google gmail!

(WIP) Eggs + Machine learning = Egg Cam

machine learning

(WIP) Eggs + Machine learning = Egg Cam

Issues: Decided to give in and try edge impluse. :/ How to classify socks using a Raspberry Pi, Edge Impulse, and balena [https://www.balena.io/blog/how-to-classify-socks-using-a-raspberry-pi-edge-impulse-and-balena/] messed up and added Lowercase and Uppercase Classes Fixed training half way done woop woop 95% accurate! i've ran through the other steps

Write code using English Sentences using OpenAi's Codex

machine learning

Write code using English Sentences using OpenAi's Codex

Machine learning can write code with humans entering input as English sentences.

I found it.

I found the solution to a UI problem with note-taking to graph structure I've been looking for for the past 6 months. Flowchart.fun is the anwser

Not a blog post: heptabase error feedback

The issue I get is when I import my massive ~3k markdown notes collection heptabase crashes and become unresponsive. how i imported my notes every things seems to work fine. but then freezes and starts eating up huge amounts of ram! it got up to 4gb of ram! after force

How to setup remote.it dietpi [wip 20210406]

How to setup remote.it dietpi [wip 20210406]

NOTE: What this tutorial is NOT: AND IS UNFISHED! about how to flash raspberry pi's or how to install motioneye on dietpi Links [How to install DietPi](https://is.gd/LnuFdL) How to install DietPi - DietPi.com Docs [https://dietpi.com/docs/install/] go to this tutorial Installing remoteit

Run Android Apps on Windows 11 natively!

Run Android Apps on Windows 11 natively!

Checking out android on windows 'windows subsystem for android™️"

Python 1.0.1: a snapshot of history, and how programming languages grow

Python 1.0.1: a snapshot of history, and how programming languages grow

the goal of the post is not to be exaustive but just list some changes in the grammer of the language, and to do so we need to go back to a really early version of python This post will be a little more advanced than my normal ones. But

Amazing Visualization Projects/Tools

data visualization

Amazing Visualization Projects/Tools

List of cool project that have awesome visualization of all sorts of data! openmappr,

All Programming Langs are
actually just C/C++

programming languages

All Programming Langs are actually just C/C++

mnumber of times other languages repositories used that languageTake note of how all these languages actually use C in some part of there codebase. Besides Golang, good for you 😋 Lets do some data scraping! I made a quick bash script to scrap popular programming langs's github "languages" stat. heres results

Amazing new First-person view Machine Learning Dataset (Ego4d)

machine learning

Amazing new First-person view Machine Learning Dataset (Ego4d)

Found an amazing data set of over 4000 hours of first-person view video footage of people doing normal everyday tasks. EX: taking out the garbage, playing board games, bike riding, etcetera...

Are NFT's Hackable? The answer may surprise you.

Are NFT's Hackable? The answer may surprise you.

Please ignore the clickbaity title, the more technically correct question is: Are NFT's not-verified on the blockchain? Answer: Yes* *its complicated, let me explain Cool... but. ...Wait... what are NFT's? actually Simply put: NFT's are a number that unquqly repersents your piece of art. Thats it. Its a number. nft

D3.js: Data visualization super powers

D3.js: Data visualization super powers

heres my thoughts, notes, and progress learning d3.js! my first graph! Got the graph sorted! Author by oran collins github.com/wisehackermonkey

5 Awesome Text Processing Tools (online)

Text Generation

5 Awesome Text Processing Tools (online)

here are my favorite text processing, some advance, some basic all awesome!

Shitty Powerpoint: Lets fix that in 6 Easy Tips

powerpoint Featured

Shitty Powerpoint: Lets fix that in 6 Easy Tips

how to make kickass slides! 6 easy steps

Secret github repository! adds customizable readme to your github profile!

THE SECRET OMG, this is so cool! I found this repo randomly in searching GitHub that had a nonstandard feature as part of their GitHub repo, a full page photo of whatever they wanted! How to make your own! turns out its really easy Create a repository with the same

Create A 3d scan of your whole house using PIX4d and a Drone

Create A 3d scan of your whole house using PIX4d and a Drone

Here's my non authoritative guide to creating 3d scans/models of large objects using photogrammetry. What is photogrammetry? This is a good photo gives a good description of what photogrammatry is. it turns drone photographs (that share similar pixels) into a 3d point cloud of objects. Photogrammetry - Wikipedia [https:

Import all of wikipidea into a graph database (Neo4j)

Import all of wikipidea into a graph database (Neo4j)

How to import all of wikipidea into a graph database Neo4j and how I setup my neo4j server on linode.

How to setup selfhosted owntracks server

How to setup selfhosted owntracks server

This is a tutorial on how to create a gps tracker for yourself, and see the path youve gone over the course of a day or year, the software im going to use is called OpenTracks and is a open-source free tracking software. it is self-hosted, (COOL!) and has a good android app (a must IMO).

I use a tracker that is pravicy focused so if you block its cool, im big on blocking stuff on my own machine. im doing it to see if anyone is actualy reading my blog posts...:)