Using transformed ellipses to estimate perspective transformations of text. How do you automatically turn this: ..into this? Find out below, and be sure to check out the code on github afterwards…

Is it too late to create a popular programming language after age 40? Let's find out! I computed an "ageAtCreation" column for 185 programming languages in the PLDB. 36 median age 37.5 avg age 16 m

Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms? Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to

In the early days of personal computers, everything was limited. There was little RAM, little (if any storage) and slow 8-bit CPUs. Those computers were primarily programmed in two languages: BASIC an

Sixty-one years since he was selected but ultimately passed over to become the first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight finally reached space in a Blue Origin rocket – and set a different record. At 10.37am

A familiar theme for me is dismissing an idea as being too much work and then later finding myself doing it anyway. That’s what happened here. A little while ago I created a block script in JavaScrip

llama3 implemented from scratch in this file, i implemented llama3 from scratch, one tensor and matrix multiplication at a time. also, im going to load tensors directly from the model file that meta

In May 2023, OpenAI founder Sam Altman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about ChatGPT. Altman demonstrated how his company's tool could massively reduce the cost of retrieving, processi

After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy that by default sucks up customers' data—including messages, content, and files—to train Slac

Our year of celebrations to mark the centenary of UK road numbering has run on for slightly more than a year now - but who's counting? We're bringing the season to a close by exploring some incorrect

Longtime readers of Nicole Express might know that I dabble in playing the organ. But sometimes I want to play with sounds that don’t have the organ’s definitive sustain capability; sounds like the pi

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 26, 2016. Microsoft 's Build developer conference ki

‘And only one for birthday presents, you know. There’s glory for you!’ ‘I don’t know what you mean by “glory”,’ Alice said. ‘Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ‘Of course, you don’t–till I tell yo

I make a lot of Timelapse and have tried a lot of ways to make Timelapses using python etc, today I found the easiest one using FFMpeg :) ffmpeg -framerate 30 -pattern_type glob -i '*.JPG' -c:v libx2

Welcome to the Convivial Society. This is a newsletter about technology and culture, or, to borrow the title of my friend Lee Vinsel’s excellent podcast, peoples and things. The general idea is to thi

Iranian Presidential Office Copyright: Iranian Presidential Office Ebrahim Raisi visited the dam alongside Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev Image caption: Ebrahim Raisi visited the dam alongside Az

If you open product hunt or any directory for that matter, you will notice that things havent been quite innovative, except the root companies. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they are useless, bu

Graphic depiction of Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances Thomas Eubanks Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be th

brawshot This tool processes videos in Blacmagic RAW format and applies a temporal lowpass filter to significantly reduce noise for videos recorded in low light environments. Essentially this results

Exclusive Apple's grudging accommodation of European law – allowing third-party browser engines on its mobile devices – apparently comes with a restriction that makes it difficult to develop and suppo

"When you tell people it is factual, you say, no, that surely didn't happen.” LONDON -- As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.” That certain

Chris Fallin came and gave a talk to the Northeastern Programming Research Laboratory last month. He talked about his work on a new project called weval, a WebAssembly partial evaluator (and then help

May 17, 2024 | 30 min. read Alright, this is the big project that I've been builing up to for a while now. To reiterate previous posts, I have four Raspberry Pis in my homelab that run everything: Je

Today, 13 May 2024, Leiden University’s Executive Board is publishing the advice of the committee that investigated reports of unacceptable behaviour and breaches of academic integrity. These reports

Last December, I tried to start a bootstrapped SaaS “the right way”. According to the advice of several bootstrappers, one possible process to find a good niche SaaS idea is: Think of a problem. Veri

Suppose that you have k sorted arrays, each of size n. You would like to search for single element in each of the k arrays (or its predecessor, if it doesn't exist). Obviously you can binary search e

Liikennematto is a tiny simulation game for children and grown-ups alike. The gameplay is simple: you only build the roads! Lots, buildings and their residents pop up after. I used to keep a somewhat

But in large part, I think people were fooled because they were looking, as we always seem to do, for the beautiful and elegant solution to a problem, even when the cynical and ugly one is right. The

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2020, the Wisconsin city of Appleton brought No Mow May to the United States. Each s

Ken Silverman's Official Home Page I live in Rhode Island and my hobby is computer programming. Projects: Story of my life I am the younger of 2 brothers. I was born at midnight on the night of Ha

Amana Amana is an American company that makes kitchen appliances. Some of their high end commercial lines are made in the USA, but we found the medium duty microwaves are available in many places and

In today’s article, we’re embarking on something unprecedented! We’ll guide you step by step through the process of transforming an SSD equipped with QLC NANDs into an SLC SSD, significantly enhancing

Earlier this year I took my girl scout troop to tour Texas Instruments (TI) in Lehi, Utah. It’s a huge manufacturing plant for semiconductors used in electronic devices, and a very enthusiastic female

I’m writing these words using plastic keys, on a composite wood desk, looking at a Gorilla Glass screen. The screen is linked to a machined-aluminum computer, inside of which doped silicon switches on

Without looking, can you say whether your shirts button to the left or to the right? The answer is actually pretty simple: If you wear women’s clothing, the buttons are on the left side of the shirt.

If superconductors — materials that conduct electricity without any resistance — worked at temperatures and pressures close to what we would consider normal, they would be world-changing. They could d