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The modern advertising apparatus exists to bypass rational thought and trigger emotional responses that lead to purchasing decisions. A sophisticated machine designed to short-circuit your agency, normalized to the point of invisibility. “But it's free speech!” Bullshit. No one is entitled to yell at you “GET 20%...
Thank you, Hacker News, for promoting — if only briefly — this marvel of an article from Physics World (or is it physicsworld?) about the more scientific aspects of the final and most important step of making coffee. Funnily enough, it focused on the two methods I’ve settled on after a couple of decades of...
I built a tennis broadcast pipeline this spring and ended up running F3ED, the NeurIPS 2024 shot detector, on a couple of ATP Challenger matches. F3ED is a good model. It also kept labeling clear aces as “unforced errors”, which is what this post is about. Code: github.com/philippdubach/tennis-vision. F3ED (NeurIPS...
From BBC News: A Russian speaker recruited and offered money to Ukrainian men to carry out arson attacks on properties connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, a court has heard. …The prosecutor said analysis of messages from phones recovered from, and connected with, the defendants showed “communication...
For much of the last 200 years, photography was largely in black-and-white. Early photographic processes couldn’t capture color, so black-and-white became the foundation upon which the medium was built, shaping how photographers learned to see light, contrast, and form. Once color processes arrived, it was...
https://keepandroidopen.org/ I've already installed f-droid, and interestingly there's a Notes app there which is closer to what I wanted than the free ones in the Play store...
A while ago, we got a notice from the local power company that there was a planned outage coming for the area. They planned to turn the power off for our apartment from about 7:30am to 4:30pm in order to do maintanence on the power line. That’s…inconvenient! It’s obviously not only disruptive to folks who work at...
Juli Clover for MacRumors: Apple has all but given up on the Vision Pro after the M5 model failed to revitalize interest in the device, MacRumors has learned. Apple updated the Vision Pro with a faster M5 chip and a more comfortable band in October 2025, but there were no other hardware changes, and consumers […]
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