April 2023 Archive
1831.
Elusive ‘Einstein’ solves a longstanding math problem (nytimes.com)
1832.
NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool (github.com)
1833.
1k Photos of Dolphin Fins (beautifulpublicdata.com)
1834.
The Data Delusion (newyorker.com)
1835.
A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques (ietf.org)
1836.
The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16 (corsix.org)
1837.
Erlfuzz – Fuzzer for the Erlang compiler and VM (erlangforums.com)
1838.
The Early Days of Linux (lwn.net)
1839.
Remembering Virginia Norwood, the ‘Mother’ of NASA’s Landsat Program (engadget.com)
1840.
The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat (wsj.com)
1841.
Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman (nytimes.com)
1842.
Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving (niemanlab.org)
1843.
AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation (economist.com)
1844.
My experience being blocked by Google Safe Browsing (2022) (brennan.io)
1845.
Apple store robbed of $500k in iPhones after thieves tunnel through coffee shop (macrumors.com)
1846.
Re-live buying a computer in 1995 [video] (youtube.com)
1847.
Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries (heartlandsignal.com)
1848.
I did the math. SF is 2.6x more dangerous per sq mi than any other US city (docs.google.com)
1849.
American offices are half-empty. That could be the next big risk for banks (cnn.com)
1850.
All you need is data and functions (mckayla.blog)
1851.
SF pays big bucks to nonprofits, fails to properly monitor them (sfstandard.com)
1852.
Camus's New York Diary (1946) (theparisreview.org)
1853.
How Paris Is Taking Back Its Streets from Cars (distilled.earth)
1854.
A hacker ripped me off. The scam turned out to be brilliant and terrifying (businessinsider.com)
1855.
Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in undisclosed deal (propublica.org)
1856.
Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data (wired.com)
1857.
Weber–Fechner Law (en.wikipedia.org)
1858.
Smart App Banners can be used to reveal Apple ID region (fingerprint.com)
1859.
Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries (arxiv.org)
1860.
Rare corn can self-fertilise [video] (youtube.com)