The maths of Christmas
It’s the most wonderful times of the year!
Chinese auto regulators want to ban retractable car door handles
Reject modernity, embrace tradition!
In October, researchers found 30 new underwater species including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge: Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey, a clear contrast to the gentle, passive, filter-feeding undertaken by most sponges.
(h/t clover)
xkcd made a fun pairwise comparison chart for shielding against a variety of external entities such as gamma rays, sharks, and toxic dust with things like air, lead, water, and a shark cage. It’s very silly but a quite interesting.
Previously on “Why The Hell is Machine Learning Involved in This?”
A machine learning model that helps heal a wound. What could possibly go wrong?
How machine learning is helping seismologists understand earthquakes and predict them more efficiently
Literally groundbreaking.
Ocean waves and the maths behind them
What’s the Italian for “surf’s up, big kahuna?”
Bloomberg on the scale of Hurricane Melissa's destruction in Jamaica
“Chuck Watson, a disaster modeler at Enki Research, estimates economic losses at almost $7.7 billion, or about 39% of the island’s gross domestic product.”
Theia Vogel on LLMs and the infamous seahorse emoji
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Researchers from three US universities recently published a study on three new species of snailfish found off the coast of California. Our discovery of not one, but three, new species of snailfishes is a reminder of how much we have yet to learn about life on Earth and of the power of curiosity and exploration.
(via; h/t clover)
How to turn a VHS player into a gaming PC
Don’t sleep on this project!
Estampa created a cartography of generative AI, showing all the inner workings of the technologies behind way too much online activity right now: What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
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