DALL-E now lets you edit images in ChatGPT

More AI image generation tools at your fingertips.

My Synesthesia Transforms Speech into Text I ‘See’ in My Head

From the time I learned to read, I have experienced a form of mental closed-captioning called ticker-tape synesthesia

Implementing Bloom Effect with Mapbox and Three.js

Bloom effects are typically used to enhance the brightness and lighting effects of images or scenes,...

“Yapping” Is TikTok's New Favorite Word — Here's What It Means

On TikTok and X, users love the word "yapping" and all of its derivatives to describe the act of talking too much. Here's what the slang term means online.

This Hellish Alien World’s Skies May Create an Eerie Rainbow ‘Glory’ Effect

"There's a reason no glory has been seen before outside our solar system — it requires very peculiar conditions."

The Many Lives of Walton Goggins

The actor plays dual roles in 'Fallout'—a monster and the man he used to be—prompting a look back at his own unlikely past.

Meet RAGFlow: An Open-Source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Engine Ba

In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, businesses face the perpetual challenge of harnessing vast amounts of unstructured data. Meet RAGFlow, a groundbreaking open-source AI project that promises to revolutionize how companies extract insights and answer…

ISO 19005-1:2005

Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1)

Economic Growth Makes Physical Stuff Cheap and Time Precious

Or: You Know The Economy is Good When You Can't Find a Babysitter

Alabama, UConn Share Analytical Mindset—And Even Used Same Firm

More than half of the NCAA Tournament's top teams have used HD Intelligence services, as basketball's data revolution sweeps through the college game.

The most expensive handbags ever made

Multimillion-dollar bags from Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Mouawad, and more are some of the most expensive in history

Carrie at 50: the bloody history of Stephen King’s audacious debut novel

The ‘king of horror’ has published more than 60 novels and sold over 350 million books – but it all began 50 years ago with the tale of a teen misfit with telekinetic powers who gets her first period in the school shower. Jessie Thompson looks back on a great, career-making…

3 Body Problem’s most mind-bending question isn’t about aliens

Would you swear a loyalty oath to humanity — or cheer on its extinction?

SVM and Kernels: The Math that Makes Classification Magic

Imagine you're at a party separating people who love pizza (yum!) from those who...well, have...

RAG Step-by-Step: Open Source Edition

In a previous post, I demonstrated how to implement RAG using the Load-Transform-Embed-Store...

The Reddit pages that investigate influencers

In 2020, a young woman who asked to be called Anna decided to buy some hair supplements that she learned about from a social media influencer. The influencer, Danielle Bernstein, regularly posts about clothing and beauty on Instagram, and had claimed that the supplements…

A Benchmark and Taxonomy of Categorical Encoders

New. Comprehensive. Extendable.

The Mystery of 4,400 Preserved Brains—And One Scientist’s Quest to Solve It

The former undertaker collects human brains, talks to them, and hopes they won’t haunt her.

Valery Slauk’s Magnificent Creepy Folk and Mythological Artistry

Valery Slauk, a celebrated Belarusian artist, specializes in book art and easel graphics, particularly employing the etching technique. His work delves into Slavic mythology, crafting captivating worlds that blend literary inspiration with boundless imagination. With a deft…

Should I use Nginx or Apache Server?

Both Nginx and Apache are popular webservers that are used to host applications and websites on the...

Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it

Nature - Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds.

The Value Of A Promise

When you hear a company like Substack or Canva make a promise, you may get pretty cynical that they’re going to keep it. Honestly, I get that.

How to drive a stake through your own good heart

OR: The demise of the Optimize Guys

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Pretty Darn Fascinating

The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.

A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Re

How an image format changed the way we communicate

Advanced Data Structures: Sets, Tuples, and Comprehensions

Advanced Data Structures: Sets, Tuples, and Comprehensions In the world of programming,...

The Beer Advertising Posters Designed by Henry Jerome Schile in The 19th Ce

German-American artist Henry Jerome Schile was born in Oberharmersbach, Baden-Württemberg, in 1829. He emigrated to the US in 1851 and worked in New York in the middle of the 19th century. h/t: vintag.es Henry Schile’s work is described by Harry T. Peters in America on Stone as…

Tokyo is the new Paris

It's simply the greatest city in the world. If you haven't been there, you need to go.

How To Build A Better “Blackwell” GPU Than Nvidia Did

While a lot of people focus on the floating point and integer processing architectures of various kinds of compute engines, we are spending more and more

The Best Python Cheat Sheet

A dense Python cheat sheet with just what you need. Comprehensive but selective coverage of core Python, with links to detailed documentation and resources. Responsive design with light and dark modes. Download and print PDF. Feedback is welcome.

Essential Formulas for Data Science in Finance

In this article, I'll take you through a guide to some essential formulas for Data Science in finance with implementation using Python.

The Rise Of The Bee Bandits

Where once there was cattle and horse rustling, the American West is now confronting the theft of its bees.

Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models with Text Similarity Metr

In the world of LLMs, there is a phenomenon known as "hallucinations." These hallucinations are...

Examples of Prototypes – From Low-Fidelity to High-Fidelity Prototypes

Let's go through 6 carefully-picked prototype examples and learn about the difference between low and high fidelity prototypes.

Tommy Emmanuel shows off his 'fearless' fingerpicking guitar style

One of the best acoustic guitarists in the world performs a live set for World Cafe.

Top Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs) Available For Commercial Use

The top open source Large Language Models available for commercial use are as follows. Llama - 2 Meta released Llama 2, a set of pretrained and refined LLMs, along with Llama 2-Chat, a version of Llama 2. These models are scalable up to 70 billion parameters. It was discovered…

As Wildfires Grow Fiercer, Some Companies Look to Rebuild the Tree Supply C

As forests succumb to ever-fiercer wildfires, the federal government and some adventurous private companies are trying to resuscitate an industry.

What's the Fastest Language in the World?

Theansweriscomplicated.

14 Secret Code Words You Might Want to Know

Some words, when used in specific situations, have deeper meanings than you realize: They’re codes to alert those in the know while keeping others in the dark.

We Need to Talk About Trader Joe’s

Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brands crying foul at the company’s blatant and aggressive copycat culture.

A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off Hi

As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.

‘Stay Away From Him. He’s Dangerous.’

"For years, a mysterious figure preyed on gay men in Atlanta. People on the streets called him the Handcuff Man—but the police knew his real name."

Groundbreaking Trial To Grow 'Mini Liver' From Patient's Own Lymph Node

An anonymous reader quotes a report from InterestingEngineering: A Pittsburgh-based biotech company has started a one-of-a-kind trial in a patient with a failing liver. Their goal is to grow a functional second liver within the patient's body -- something never achieved before…

How Chinese Students Experience America

COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year.

Saffron: The Story of the World’s Most Expensive Spice

Appearing in the written record as early as 2300 BCE, saffron can be traced in foodways around the globe, despite the finicky nature of its harvest.

Making Old Orchards New Again

Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an

The unique songbird that's gone forever

Bachman’s warbler is one of 21 species declared extinct last year – but scientists are still discovering its secrets

A New Look at an Old Favorite for Adventure Seekers: La Paz, Mexico

New hotels and destination-worthy restaurants now complement the ever-appealing outdoors surrounding La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur.

How Marlon Brando Lost His Way

From 2008: What was real about the realest actor of them all? Claudia Roth Pierpont on Brando’s dilemmas and his depths.