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2022-10-20 14:42:43     How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/...hematician-revealed-a-casino-loophole

To study riffle shuffles rigorously, Diaconis used a pow... tool called a Markov chain.

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2022-09-29 13:33:49     SCHI Lab - OWidgets

https://multi-sensory.info/index.php/componen.../11-owidgets

Olfactory interactions and interfaces are extremely rele... of use and application contexts, from entertainment to r... supporting learning experiences to enhancing the creatio... experiences such as in virtual and augmented environments.

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2022-09-29 13:31:33     An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes

https://ncase.me/attractors/

A peaceful movement fights against violence and oppressi... nothing much changes. Then, everything changes.
Why do many complex systems – cultures, environments, ...
There's a tool that can help us understand this: attract ...

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2022-09-27 08:01:06     About - Gough Map

http://www.goughmap.org/about/

The Gough Map test is internationally-renowned as one of... to show Britain in a geographically-recognizable form. Y... questions remain of how the map was made, who made it, w...
This website presents an interactive, searchable editio ...

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2022-09-11 09:02:44     Leaflet - a JavaScript library for interactive maps

https://leafletjs.com/#close

Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library fo... interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it h... features most developers ever need.
Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usa ...

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2022-07-17 13:23:23     Chinese courts allow AI to make rulings, charge people and carry out punishments | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/...people-carry-punishments.html

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2022-07-04 07:02:29     Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’ | Memory | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-rise-of-digital-amenesia?...

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories?

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2022-06-17 06:34:20    

https://twitter.com/DelightfulApps/st.../1537145851503644675

An algorithm apparently generates these light patterns. Be better if an artist had?

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2022-06-13 06:38:34     Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient | Google | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

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2022-03-23 20:11:08     StoryKit: An Object-Based Media Toolkit - BBC R&D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/object-based-media-toolkit

We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences

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2022-03-02 07:59:07     Florin Pop - Pure CSS Tooltip

https://www.florin-pop.com/blog/2019/05/pure-css-tooltip/

We don't need a complicated HTML structure. We are only ... simple div, with a couple of class names, and we're goin... for each of the following positions: top, right, left, b...

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2022-01-21 08:58:44     Django overview | Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/

Django was invented to meet fast-moving newsroom deadlin... satisfying the tough requirements of experienced web dev...
Why Django?
With Django, you can take web applications from concept ...

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2022-01-13 16:18:15    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-59957102

The Norfolk hamlet of Berney Arms was once home to a small but thriving community of 11 families. Today, it lies empty but for an unused pub, an RSPB centre, a closed marsh mill and a railway station.

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2022-01-09 14:05:05     GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...ing-code-without-permission/

it is possible to prompt CoPilot to suggest copyrighted ... computer game Quake III Arena, complete with comments fr... programmer. This code cannot be reused without permission.

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2022-01-09 14:01:40     How medical tests have built-in discrimination against Black people | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...nation-against-black-people/

THE assumption that Black people have a lower level of c... than white people was, until recently, built into a form... National Football League to settle head injury lawsuits.

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2022-01-09 13:56:29     Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...drone-swarm-in-gaza-attacks/

During operations in Gaza in mid-May, the Israel Defense... a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack H... This is thought to be the first time a drone swarm has b...

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2022-01-09 13:53:29     What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve? | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...mals-and-when-did-it-evolve/

Nieder thinks that consciousness probably emerged separa... occasions, in much the same way that wings appeared sepa... birds and bats.

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2022-01-03 07:47:53     About me | LibreShot

https://libreshot.com/about-libreshot/

LibreShot.com (former freepix.eu) is a project that cont... photos for private and commercial use. All photos and th... made by me and you can use my photos without attribution... really appreciate a link to Libreshot 🙂

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2021-12-26 13:42:01    

https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js

Fabric.js is a framework that makes it easy to work with HTML5 canvas element. It is an interactive object model on top of canvas element. It is also an SVG-to-canvas parser.

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2021-11-07 07:40:09     About Ebac | Great British Manufacturing Since 1972

https://www.ebac.com/about/

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2021-10-12 13:46:56     SQLime / About

https://sqlime.org/about.html

SQLime is an online SQLite playground for debugging and ... snippets. Kinda like JSFiddle, but for SQL instead of Ja...

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/Channels/techie/database

2021-07-30 10:03:00    

https://www.linkedin.com/...ond-growth-gaya-branderhorst?...

Global growth keeps slowing down. ... Sometimes an article will discuss how to kick the economy back into gear. All this takes as given that the economy’s ultimate purpose is growth. But does it need to be?

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2021-07-30 10:00:51    

https://www.theguardian.com/...it-study-the-limits-to-growth

Herrington, a Dutch sustainability researcher and adviser to the Club of Rome, a Swiss thinktank, has made headlines in recent days after she authored a report that appeared to show a controversial 1970s study predicting the collapse of civ...

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2020-09-25 12:18:21     'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion | Science and nature books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...gist-rethinking-human-emotion

How we interpret our feelings depends on where and how w... says professor Lisa Feldman Barrett - and not understand... our lives harder

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2020-06-27 10:06:19    

https://www.nytimes.com/20.../facial-recognition-arrest.html

Mr. Williams knew that he had not committed the crime in question. What he could not have known, as he sat in the interrogation room, is that his case may be the first known account of an American being wrongfully arrested based on a flawed...

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2020-06-21 09:49:36    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53093613

The first time Steve Saylor fired up the hotly-anticipated new game The Last of Us Part II, he burst into tears.

"Y'all don't even know how much..." he says between sobs in his video of the moment, which has now had nearly half a million v...

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2018-06-17 20:29:33     Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...olved-beyond-our-control-?...

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpr... even its creators don’t understand. As machines increa... events, how can we regain control?

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2018-06-02 09:31:24    

https://blog.bitsrc.io/...ou-should-know-in-2018-3646fb31ade

11 Useful Javascript utility libraries to speed your development.

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2018-03-04 12:41:35     The Self-Attribution Fallacy – George Monbiot

http://www.monbiot.com/2011.../the-self-attribution-fallacy/

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where th... and brutality.

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2018-01-25 15:04:10    

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/224607-beyo.../fulltext

Most researchers and many engineers teach. Some take teaching as a chore; some actually like teaching; and some researchers like teaching so much as to do research about teaching, ... What I do want to talk about is an article which influe...

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