2025-04-10
All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the...
All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the fact is that goods imported from practically every country in the world are taxed at 10% and Chinese...
fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction: The Results
The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.
Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The...
Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years.”
From Brain Embeddings to Refined Images: The MindEye2 Inference Pipeline
Refinement using base SDXL subjectively improves the quality of image outputs without strongly affecting low or high-level image metrics.
Tariffs, integrity, and chaos
Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine):[T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In...
2025-04-09
What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard...
What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard to focus on the things in front of me, that I need to do. It’s hard to focus...
Image Captioning and Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP
The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.
Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules Explained
The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.
Every single Oddworld game is available right now for a single, solitary dollar
Dozens of hours worth of dystopian puzzle solving awaits.
Say hello to Quick Chapters
I said that Quick Stuff was a place for me to put those little web utilities that I just need sometimes, and I've already got a new entrant: Quick Chapters.This...
★ WebKit Adds Support for ‘text-wrap: pretty’, Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview
I think it’s a good start, and I couldn’t be happier that the WebKit team is even tackling the problem at all. As Simmons notes, line-wrapping layout in web browsers...
Schedule 1 is the kind of instant Steam hit that was only ever going to come from a complete rando
The corporate mind cannot comprehend Schedule 1.
How $20 Million Vanished From Layer 2 - and Why No One Saw It Coming
Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Blast exploded in popularity for their low fees and lightning-fast transactions. Overlooked behavior in Layer 2 logic was enough to lose $20 million....
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its...
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its own gulags with no more judicial review than existed when Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet...
AI: Will You See or Be Made to See?
The internet was dismissed as a speculative bubble at the turn of the millennium. But from the wreckage of that bubble, the likes of Amazon, Google, and PayPal reshaped the...
Xbox Games Showcase returns in June with first-party studios, third-party partners, and a deep dive into The Outer Worlds 2
Microsoft is bringing back the double-feature format for its 2025 online event.
The Last of Us is coming back for a third season on HBO
Season two isn't out for a few more days, but HBO is clearly confident that fans are going to want more.
The Blacklight Privacy Inspector Is Gaining Three New Features
The Product and Technology team at The Markup has been busy with what we’ve lovingly called “Blacklight Summer,” and we’ve made some major updates to Blacklight, our popular real-time website...
If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories...
If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories as told by survivors to their grandchildren. “Our generation is the last to ever hear our grandparents’ stories...
What can we learn from expert AGI forecasts?
Published on April 9, 2025 9:34 PM GMTAn introductory article on AI forecasts. Posted for feedback. As a non-expert, it would be great if there were experts who could tell...
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