Not Your Reflection? (Blender VFX Tutorial)
In this Blender VFX Tutorial, we will make the reflection in the mirror, act differently then the real person. Discovered from
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GoPower Plus gives low Hz
I recently bought a GoPower Plus from Walmart. I plugged a Kill A Watt into it and a floor lamp into the Kill A Watt. It said it’s getting 10Hz instead of the standard 60Hz. That’s strange, but it powered…
Illegal Content and the Blockchain
2021-03-17 Bruce Schneier Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless. But…
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
2000-04-06 Joel Spolsky Netscape … [made] the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a…
FireEye Hacked
2020-12-09 Bruce Schneier FireEye [a cybersecurity company] was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
2020-09-02 Raphael Satter (Reuters) – Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S.…
Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron
2020-09-01 Samuel K. Moore It combines resistance, capacitance, and what’s called a Mott memristor all in the same device. Memristors are devices that hold a memory, in the form of resistance, of the current that has flowed through them. Mott…
A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning
2020-09-27 Andrey Kurenkov The story of how neural nets evolved from the earliest days of AI to now.
Artificial brains may need sleep too
2020-06-08 James Riordon States that resemble sleep-like cycles in simulated neural networks quell the instability that comes with uninterrupted self-learning in artificial analogs of brains … Watkins and her research team found that the network simulations became unstable after continuous…
Hidden Neutrino Particles May Be a Link to the Dark Sector
2020-07-01 William Charles Louis and Richard G. Van de Water The most likely solution was a new neutrino—a “sterile” neutrino, so called because it would not interact with other matter in any way except through gravity.