February 16, 2021
» Make some music with Google’s AI driven Blob Opera.
thoughts on stuff, views on things
» Make some music with Google’s AI driven Blob Opera.
» Interesting article on reverse engineering the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine. I have a background in Biology and Bioinformatics, so I feel quite at home in this article, and I appreciate how the author took their time to break this all down.
» This is what a photo looks like after 8 years of exposure. This is how it happened:
Regina [the photographer] was interested in capturing images without the use of modern technology; in this case using a beer can lined with photographic paper as a pinhole camera. She placed a can on one of the Observatory’s telescopes, which had been forgotten about until September this year when it was finally removed by the Observatory’s Principal Technical officer.
» IKEA stops delivering their paper catalogue - but they have put all their old catalogues online.
» Great visualization of how big space is.
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
–Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
» Furry soft body animation for Tetris. The soundtrack is great, too!
» 7000+ DOS games playable in your browser. The entries on the front page alone take you back a long time. If you like the work of the Internet Archive, you can donate here.
» Windows XP, written in React, in your browser. Just notice how goddamn fast it loads!
» This tool to copy/paste nearly everything is mind blowing. It lets you quickly select and copy around everything, including real, tangible things that you capture with a quick photo.
» If you rely on AI for your camera recording during a soccer match, then better make sure to not have a bald referee.
» You can now play Mario in vim. Of course, you can do the same and more in emacs, for which a full NES emulator is available.
This brings back memories from school, where we used our sophisticated calculators mainly for playing games on them.
» Colibri is a browser without tabs. It offers two replacement concepts:
I like the idea a lot and think that it has a lot of potential - I agree that
the idea of tabs needs overhauling. However, I disagree with the implementation
so far. Colibri lacks many basic features, which I would find acceptable in an
MVP.
But their key features, Links and Lists, are hard and not intuitive to use, and
the current feature set for these features are not very satisfying, considering
that this is supposed to be the unique selling point of this browser.
Nice idea, needs more work.