In January 2020, I posted my view that the outbreak of what was to be called COVID quite possibly came by way of lab accident. It generated over 100 comments and ended at least one friendship. I popped by Facebook yesterday to circle back on that thread.
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Do you use Wordpress? Consider using Typora and the free image uploader “upgit” to make embedding images automatic.
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An index of all the Twitter Files threads, including summaries.
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In the most explosive Twitter Files yet, Matt Taibbi uncovers the agitprop-laundering fraud engineered by a neoliberal think-tank.
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Here’s a quick cheatsheet on setting and reading environment variables across common OS’s and languages.
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Revisiting the Enchanted Rose project four years later, this time with an open-source build based on Raspberry Pi.
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The Raspberry Pi microcomputer is great for building “Internet of Things” devices. This technical post describes the steps to get your Raspberry Pi to broadcast its own local network and bridge to an Ethernet network if available. There are other guides showing how to do this on the Internet, but they are often woefully out of date, leading people down real rabbit holes.
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The sudden collapse of the world’s second biggest cryptocurrency exchange in November 2022 shocked the crypto world and left more than a million creditors hanging, with the 50 biggest being owed a staggering $3.1 billion.
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This is the third in a three-part series introducing revolutionary changes in AI-generated art. In Part I: AI Art Comes of Age, we traced back through some of the winding path that brought us to this point. Part II: Deep Learning and The Diffusion Revolution, 2014-present, introduced three basic methods […]
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A revolutionary insight in 2015, plus AI work on natural language, unleashed a new wave of generative AI models.
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