The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films.
The China girl was there to assist the lab technicians processing the film. Even though the same person’s face might show up in reel after reel of film, her image would remain unknown to everyone except the technicians and projectionists.
Minority Report-style crime-predicting AI predictably sucks at its job.
The UK government has been funneling millions of dollars into a prediction tool for violent crime that uses artificial intelligence. Now, officials are finally ready to admit that it has one big flaw: It’s completely unusable.
1 + 2 + 3 = 6
6 + 7 + 8 = 21
21 + 22 + 23 = 66
66 + 67 + 68 = 201
201 + 202 + 203 = 606
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Literatur in Bayern: 100. Todestag von Lena Christ.
Lena Christ kam am 30. Oktober 1881 als uneheliches Kind einer Köchin auf die Welt. Damit war das Elend in einem bigotten Umfeld bereits programmiert. Dass sie ein "Bankert" war, wie man uneheliche Kinder damals nannte, verstieß gegen den Moralkodex.
12 Principles for a Diverging Desktop Future.
The Arcan project, at its core, is rooted in assumption that the ‘desktop’ way of interfacing with computing is inching towards its last of breaths, and rewriting X11 or JSONifying STDOUT won’t provide much more air than for a final gasp.
There are numerous ways we can draw a line using CSS. But there is actually no concept of a line in CSS, we are merely creating the illusion of a line with other elements or properties.
In a crisis never the responsible head of an organization saying goodbye. The head that should have made its own company crisis-proof. Now the most important organs of the whole body are apparently being removed.
Relevant: fred schreibt über Technik, Internet, Apps und all dieses Zeug. Aber: Die Geschichten finden alle in Kenya (Afrika) statt. Der Leser bekommt also Einblicke, die anderswo nicht zu finden sind.
Lester Bangs: “The White Noise Supremacists” (from the Village Voice, 1979).
The 2019 Web Almanac.
The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.
Relevant: Coming soon! The 2020 state of the web report.
The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes.
Making one cake can take anywhere from four to eight hours, depending on the complexity of the design. It’s a process that could go wrong at any point in time: Bakers first must cook up cakes in deep pans, carefully adding even stripes of colorful batter with 10 minutes in the oven between each layer.
