Technology
Finding Your Voice in the Era of ChatGPT
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly: sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” – Ernest Hemingway At times writing can feel like completing a jig-saw puzzle: contorting stray pieces to fit the image seen on the cardboard box. You reach for words …
Conal Elliott » Reimagining matrices
The function of the imagination is notto make strange things settled, so much asto make settled things strange.– G.K. Chesterton Why is matrix multiplication defined so very differently from matrix addition? If we didn’t know these procedures, could we derive them from first principles? What might those principles be? This post gives a simple semantic …
The Squaring Trick
Not again… Yesterday I created an article on a cube root trick, so today I’m creating something similar to that. More party tricks useful Mathematical tricks. Does your number end with 5? Firstly, if your number ends with a 5, then you’re pretty lucky. If the number you’re trying to square’s …
Numerical Python in Astronomy and Astrophysics: A Practical Guide to Astrophysical Problem Solving
Wolfram Schmidt is Head of IT and senior researcher at the Hamburg Observatory. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. in Physics and an M.Phil. in Astrophysics and received his Dr. rer. nat. from the Technical University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching. He completed his Habilitation with a thesis on the numerical modeling …
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please… Google has created one of the best operating systems designed with the everyday user1 in mind: Chrome OS. It is undeniably simple, reliable, easy to setup, and ships with …
Titanic (1943 film) – Wikipedia
1943 German propaganda film Titanic is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA, depicting the catastrophic sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Despite the fact that there already was a German silent film produced in 1912 just four weeks after the sinking and a British company …
Cash-strapped Twitter to start charging developers for API access next week
In the middle of the night, Twitter made an announcement that disappointed a wide range of developers whose research, bots, and apps depend on free access to the platform’s API to function. Twitter announced in a tweet that starting on February 9, Twitter “will no longer support free access to the Twitter API.” Instead, many …
Tor 0day: Burning Bridges – The Hacker Factor Blog
The onion routing system, Tor, is designed to bypass censorship and evade surveillance. However, the Tor network and Tor Browser have significant limitations; neither lives up to this promise. In my previous blog entry, I wrote about a couple of different zero-day exploits — vulnerabilities without patches or workarounds. These vulnerabilities impact the Tor Browser …
GoPenAI – Chrome Web Store
GoPenAI – Easily export any conversation generated by ChatGPT and turn it into a unique and eye-catching image. Whether you’re a… GoPenAI – Easily export any conversation generated by ChatGPT and turn it into a unique and eye-catching image. Whether you’re a designer, marketer, or just looking for a new way to showcase your chatbot’s …
“Clearly the Most Failing Medical Product in History, Causing Unprecedented Harm” – The Daily Sceptic
Covid mRNA vaccines are “clearly the most failing medical product in the history of medical products, both in terms of efficacy and safety” and should be withdrawn immediately as they cause “an unprecedented level of harm including the death of young people and children”, a top drug safety expert has said. Professor Retsef Levi, an …
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