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On: Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth...

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It reminded me of Southland Tales.

Not a bad thing

On: MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonc...

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Something like 8 years ago I used this tutorial to get unlimited food at the uni vending machine. Good times.

https://firefart.at/post/how-to-crack-mifare-classic-cards/

On: EGAIR – European Guild for Artificial Intelligence...

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> Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters.

That's entirely on you. There are some big names in the (european) comic book industry.

On: EGAIR – European Guild for Artificial Intelligence...

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I posted the website which seems somehow not updated; this reel is how it was brought to my attention: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8l-9RbshIE/

On: Atkinson Dithering (2021)

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THIS is the best resource on dithering I've read (except maybe some gritty details in forum posts by the author of Obra Dinn)

On: Stallman Was Right

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You could've just said "no"

On: Riven

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I played Myst on my second pc, on Windows 98. It was an amazing experience, even if I never finished it.

I re-played on the Nintendo Switch, and it was again amazing (I managed to finish it this time).

Never played any of the sequels, so I hope Riven makes it to Switch too

On: Models all the way down

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My conclusion is that LAION is built using model upon model upon model; so each error propagates and the resulting dataset is kinda shitty.

But "we" made amazing stuff out of LAION.

So: the next person who can curate a high-quality big dataset is gonna make a fortune

On: Microsoft bets on Germany in €3.2B AI push

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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384282 (2 days ago, 1 comment)

On: David Kahn has died

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"The Codebreakers" is an incredible book. One of the books I would save during a fire.