Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin

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Cardinal Virtual modular synthesizer plugin A fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer based on the popular VCV Rack Available in AudioUnit/CLAP/LV2/VST2/VST3 plugin formats and as a standalone app for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows and the Web. Open-Source Created first and foremost as a way to have Rack as a conventional open-source audio plugin. Self-contained Cardinal […]

Synchronization of bowhead whales

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Bowhead whales are tagged in Disko Bay, West Greenland, to track their movements and diving behavior. Credit: Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen Applying chaos theory to the movement of iconic arctic whales uncovered a 24-hour diving cycle and a long-range (~100 km) synchronization. Bowhead whales are among the largest and longest-lived mammals in the world. They play […]

‘Rare species’ not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain To ensure her trail cameras would stay operational during the hot Arizona summer, researcher Kinley Ragan trekked to 23 of them. At each, Ragan, a field research project manager with the Phoenix Zoo, checked the camera’s batteries and SD card, as well as ensured the camera was angled at an optimal […]

Lenticular Clock

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There are several softwares that can be used for interlacing the images, I used grape which is freeware. At first, I created pictures of each individual digit from 0 to 9 all with the same size of 52.5x30mm. I used a different color for each digit which helps to distinguish them more clearly and also […]

Music recommendation system using transformer models

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We present a music recommendation ranking system that uses Transformer models to better understand the sequential nature of user actions based on the current user context. Users have more choices for listening to music than ever before. Popular services boast of massive and varied catalogs. The YouTube Music catalog, for example, has over 100M songs […]

Everyone’s Life Is Weird

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If you’re free and in San Francisco this Sunday (tomorrow!) at 11 AM and would like to hang out with other subscribers, please fill out this form. I prioritized paid subscribers so we currently have 75 people but I thought maybe we could aim for 100? I’ll close the Typeform when it’s full. This year […]

Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly

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20 August 2024 I wrote this app to fix a personal annoyance. You probably don’t need it. I’m not an Imgur user. But in my day-to-day browsing, I sometimes encounter a wild Imgur link. And when I click that link, it takes me to the Imgur website, and the logo loads. Then the app banner […]

Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing

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Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital—where Cushny and Peebles conducted the hyoscine clinical trial [14] Hypothesis testing pervades statistical education and scientific research, and for good reason. Experiments are often initiated from a hypothesis or produce data that leads to a hypothesis. Consider, for example, this data set from pharmacologists Cushny and Peebles [1]: Table 1: Average sleep […]

Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS

About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how DNS works by messing around and creating records. I wasn’t very careful with the DNS implementation though (to quote the release blog post: “following the DNS RFCs? not exactly”), and people started reporting problems that […]