If you suspect staring at art has not provided the required intellectual sustenance, reflect briefly on this classical music.
[MUSIC INTERRUPTED BY BUZZER]
From an article I found online:
A team led by Matthias Wittlinger, a biologist at the University of Ulm, Germany, made modifications to desert ants [...]. After setting up an ant home outside the lab, the researchers let 25 ants take a 10-meter trip from their nest, then collected them. For one group, the team glued tiny stilts to the insects' legs. For another, they clipped the legs down to stumps. And for a control group they left the legs alone. Then the researchers gave each ant a piece of food and set it free. With morsels of food in their jaws, the ants immediately headed home. If desert ants do indeed use an internal pedometer, then the modifications should mess up their calculations.
Not only did the stilted and stumpy ants not make it home, but they also misjudged their distances exactly as the researchers predicted. The ants on stilts went about 5 meters too far before stopping to search for the nest, whereas the stumpy ants stopped about 5 meters too short [...] (Control ants got back home just fine.) After the modified ants were returned to the nest, they were able to go out and get back home just as accurately as normal ants, which should be the case if they're keeping track of the number of steps.
It's the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank of course!
"Welcome to Applebee's! Would you like apples or bees?"
"Bees?"
"HE PICKED THE BEES!" chefs angrily shake jars of bees
Pasting the first section of the article because of the stupid anti-adblocker on Mobile:
Shinobi Warfare, a 2D turn-based RPG multiplayer game, is being called out by Steam users after it was discovered that the developer has been rewarding players with in-game currency for leaving a positive review. The lucrative reward has led to the game receiving an 'overwhelmingly positive' review badge, but goes against the platform's terms of service agreement.
The discovery was made by Reddit user Glavurdan, who took to the Steam subreddit yesterday to reveal their findings. The post has multiple images of the questionable practice, with the most notable being on the Shinobi Warfare Discord server, where an admin on the server offered players 1,000 in-game gems to leave a positive review.
If I remember correctly, the ELI5 is it's impossible to measure something without interacting with it in some way. The calculations and science determine it will turn out like the top image. The moment we try to measure it though, we have to interact with it. This changes the calculations and whatnot, thus producing a different pattern.
It's that correct more or less?
Was hoping for more about the game takedowns, but not much of anything was said:
LP: [...] how does The Pokémon Company handle Cease & Desist letters with regards to fan projects? How did you find them, and where did you draw the line on what's allowed and what the company thinks needs to be shut down?
DM: Short answer: [...] someone from the company would send me a link to a news article, or I would stumble across it myself. [...] I say this to my students: the worst thing on earth is when your "fan" project gets press, because now I know about you.
LP: Oh. Oh no.
DM: But that's not the end of the equation. You don't send a takedown right away. You wait to see if they get funded (for a Kickstarter or similar); if they get funded then that's when you engage. No one likes suing fans.
The audit was not about finding the exact cause of the previous incidents:
The audit, which is kind of like a quality control inspection for large companies, analyzed 89 aspects of Boeing’s 737 Max production
The audit looks at current production to assess wether or not everything is being done to prevent further hazards (they failed over a third of the inspections). Determining what caused the past incidents would be assigned to the equivalent of crime scene investigators (FAA detectives?).
Determining production line compliance and investigating the cause of a major malfunction are two entirely different beasts.
I believe it's a really well done needle felt
Apparently, this is the code for a Hello World program in Malbolge:
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This one was somewhat accidental. I was initially playing around with settings to get to know Stable Diffusion. I ended generating the first version of this image and really liked it. I then img2img SD upscaled it. Next I used several steps of inpaint to remove the extra faces and crowns that were on the sphere. Finally, I opened it in an image editor to clean up the various small artifacts introduced by the upscale and cleaned up some areas.
The model and prompt I used can be found here: https://civitai.com/posts/500346
I'm sending this to my best friend :3