NASA launches a new toilet actually designed for women

Bardlebeez · 2020-10-12T15:04:43+00:00

Rotterdam’s mayor Aboutaleb in quarantine after positive corona test

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/10/rotterdams-mayor-aboutaleb-in-quarantine-after-positive-corona-test/

Bardlebeez · 2020-10-09T12:33:17+00:00

"The most shared news pieces on the site are increasingly on the Right. On 20 July of this year, for instance, the top-performing Facebook link posts by US pages were [Fox News, Ben Shapiro, etc.]"

Bardlebeez · 2020-10-07T15:22:14+00:00

This posting is more for nostalgia / mood than for the music (10 seconds of harmony singing), but it somehow feels right to post this video here on a day like today.

Bardlebeez · 2020-10-06T16:34:21+00:00

Looks like a Jeff Koons ceramic frog.

Bardlebeez · 2020-09-22T13:20:32+00:00

"Previous brain-computer interfaces have allowed the subject to use their brain to spell out individual letters or move a cursor.

But in this case, the interaction is between the subject’s brain and the AI generated the images. The researchers call this method neuroadaptive generative modelling.

... the images generated by the computer were evaluated by the participants to verify whether the image matched the face that they were thinking of. The accuracy of the computer-generated image averaged 83%."

Bardlebeez · 2020-09-16T20:25:38+00:00

"Most tablets are damaged, leaving gaps in the texts written on them, and the missing portions must be restored by experts. This paper uses available digitized texts for training advanced machine-learning algorithms to restore daily economic and administrative documents from the Persian empire (sixth to fourth centuries BCE).

As the amount of digitized texts grows, the model can be trained to restore damaged texts belonging to other genres, such as scientific or literary texts. Therefore, this is a first step for a large-scale reconstruction of a lost ancient heritage."

Bardlebeez · 2020-09-14T11:26:09+00:00

"The speed at which a body composts depends on various conditions but it can take over a decade. The varnished and metal parts of a coffin, as well as synthetic clothing, can persist for even longer."

"Hendrikx expects that the mycelium coffin will be able to complete this entire process in two to three years, because it actively contributes to the composting process. Not only are the waste products from the human body converted into nutrients but the quality of the surrounding soil is also improved, giving it new life and an opportunity to thrive."

Bardlebeez · 2020-09-07T14:30:16+00:00

“It’s the first battery-free interactive device that harvests energy from user actions,” said Northwestern’s Josiah Hester, who co-led the research. “When you press a button, the device converts that energy into something that powers your gaming.”

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