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Last post Author Topic: Interesting "stuff"  (Read 1309744 times)

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1250 on: July 01, 2016, 04:33 AM »
3D dancing light zoetrope:



Explanation of how it works:


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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1252 on: July 02, 2016, 12:12 PM »
https://www.reddit.c...ooks_for_prison_ive/


Boy Spends Allowance on Books For Prison: ‘I’ve Never Seen A Kid With A Heart Like His’

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« Reply #1253 on: July 04, 2016, 04:41 PM »


We Are America ft. John Cena | Love Has No Labels


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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1254 on: July 06, 2016, 04:33 PM »

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1255 on: July 06, 2016, 07:25 PM »
Single-celled organisms play microscopic Pac-Man:


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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1257 on: July 09, 2016, 02:52 PM »

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« Reply #1258 on: July 11, 2016, 02:01 AM »

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« Reply #1259 on: July 11, 2016, 08:02 PM »

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« Reply #1260 on: July 11, 2016, 08:05 PM »

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1261 on: July 11, 2016, 10:09 PM »
This Tiny Robot Lets You Play God With Huge AI.jpgInteresting "stuff"

This Tiny Robot Lets You Play God With Huge AI

iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck [Updated].jpgInteresting "stuff"

iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck [Updated]

They're fixing the Pokemon Google privacy problem.

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1262 on: July 12, 2016, 11:45 AM »
The code that took the US to the moon is on github... and it's more interesting than you might think!

http://qz.com/726338...-1960s-time-capsule/

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1263 on: July 12, 2016, 11:58 AM »
The code that took the US to the moon is on github... and it's more interesting than you might think!

Reading the article now -- great stuff.  :up:

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1265 on: July 12, 2016, 04:14 PM »

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1266 on: July 13, 2016, 06:33 PM »
GEDC2038.JPGInteresting "stuff"

I took this picture. It has no digital magic, except some cropping.




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« Reply #1267 on: July 14, 2016, 12:29 PM »
Watch a Sci-Fi Short Film written by a Computer

http://geekandsundry...itten-by-a-computer/

Maybe there’s hope for humans, after all. Inspired (or challenged) by AlphaGo’s recent crushing victory over flesh-and-blood board game champs, a group of filmmakers and a technologist created “Benjamin” to see if machine supremacy extends to the arts, too. In the group’s own words, Benjamin is “a system-on-chip (SOC) computer with a graphics processing unit (GPU), running a ‘long short term memory’ (LSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN).” That is, an A.I. similar to your smartphone’s auto-correct.

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« Reply #1268 on: July 14, 2016, 06:26 PM »

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1269 on: July 15, 2016, 05:51 PM »
Finally, a reliable 65-foot USB connection.jpgInteresting "stuff"

Finally, a reliable 65-foot USB connection

Google named the next version of Android after my cat and here is proof.jpgInteresting "stuff"

Google named the next version of Android after my cat and here is proof

I don't know if this is a prank or not.

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Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Reply #1271 on: July 20, 2016, 06:31 PM »
This Is the Best US Phone Maker You've Never Heard Of.jpgInteresting "stuff"

This Is the Best US Phone Maker You've Never Heard Of

Google launches new cloud service for understanding human language.jpgInteresting "stuff"

Google launches new cloud service for understanding human language

How many people her would like more posts like this Google one?


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« Reply #1272 on: July 20, 2016, 07:58 PM »


I took this picture. It has no digital magic, except some cropping.

GEDC2038.JPGInteresting "stuff"

For those who would prefer a less mysterious version of this picture I present:

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GEDC2059.JPGInteresting "stuff"




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