Unicomp’s “New” Model M Keyboard
____________________________________________________________________________________ PRODUCT UPDATE – If you have visited this site and page recently, you know our lead times were extended due to parts availability issues. We have recently received our greatly anticipated controller card parts for the USB keyboards. It appears that now we are back to normal lead times. With this said, we are […]
Before he was George Orwell, he was Eric Blair, police officer
Paul Theroux’s new novel, “Burma Sahib,” explores the writer’s formative experiences in colonial Myanmar. BURMA SAHIB, by Paul Theroux George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950, at the age of 46. Yet today, over 70 years later, his long shadow remains as dark and well defined as ever, particularly in Britain, where he is enlisted […]
Shell Is Immediately Closing All of Its California Hydrogen Fueling Stations
Shell Hydrogen will permanently close all seven of its California pumping stations immediately, the company confirmed this week. It will no longer operate light-duty hydrogen stations in the U.S., and represents another blow to the struggling hydrogen car market in the only state where the fuel is widely available at all. The outlet Hydrogen Insight first […]
6 months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
Until January, most stories from 404 Media were available to read for free. But after the four cofounders discovered — through their own reporting — that their stories were being scraped, paraphrased by AI text “spinners,” and published on other websites, they decided to start requiring readers to provide their email addresses to access stories, […]
Daniel Dennett: What If I’m Wrong?
I used to be a much more conscientious scholar than I am now. I would encounter a journal article or book that was relevant to my interests but forbiddingly technical (or, if the author was a philosopher, just forbiddingly badly written, convoluted, and jargon packed), and I would beat my head against it for hours […]
Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn’t tell subs
Enlarge / The Rings of Power… now in HDR10+ for ad-tier users. Prime Video On January 29, Amazon started showing ads to Prime Video subscribers in the US unless they pay an additional $2.99 per month. But this wasn’t the only change to the service. Those who don’t pay up also lose features; their accounts […]
Time Series Forecasting vs. Regression
The application of historical data for predicting future outcomes is pivotal across various domains, encompassing revenue projections, weather forecasts, stock market trends, sports predictions, and beyond. This dependence on predictive analytics relies on extracting valuable insights from historical data, addressing diverse forecasting challenges. To predict future outcomes, a predictive model is built from historical data. […]
Wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’
A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say. The wall, which stretches for nearly a kilometre along the seafloor in the Bay of Mecklenburg, was spotted by accident when scientists operated a multibeam sonar system from a research […]
US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive
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Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
My five year old daughter came home from kindergarten a few months ago, and told my partner and I that math was stupid (!). We have since been working (so far successfully) to make her more excited about all things math, and more proud of her math accomplishments. One success we’ve had is that she […]