Magic

I’ve been on a weird kick lately making images using Excel. [Here’s one post. I hope to post more soon.] If you add a background color to each cell in a spreadsheet and resize the cell widths to make each … Read more

The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking the moment when the first cohort of women, including Debbie McGee and Fay Presto, were admitted to its previously male-only ranks of magicians. But … Read more

The magic kernel Applications using Magic Kernel Sharp Research paper This research paper (62 pages) provides a full mathematical description and analysis of the Magic Kernel and Magic Kernel Sharp: There was some discussion of this paper when it was trending … Read more

Welcome to Product for Engineers, a newsletter created by PostHog for engineers and founders who want to build successful startups. Startups ship more per person than big companies – everyone knows this. But how do you retain that advantage as you scale? … Read more

ZEBU Between 1945 and 1960, RAND operated as the world’s most productive research organization. Initially envisioned as a research arm of the Air Force, RAND made century-defining breakthroughs both in basic science and applied strategic analysis. Its members helped define … Read more

Elements The Magic of Bird Brains Crows are smart enough to pick up trash. Why won’t they? By Ben Crair March 5, 2024 Photograph by Martin Parr / Magnum Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story At … Read more

Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors Arxiv Code Abstract We present “Magic123”, a two-stage coarse-to-fine solution for high-quality, textured 3D meshes generation from a single unposed image in the wild using … Read more