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Bluestein
11,055karma·5,744submissions·June 10, 2020
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So, after decades of lurking, I decided to join. Please be gentle :)
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"An on-board ESP32 WROVER with integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, a dual-core microprocessor, 8MB of RAM and 4MB of flash. Additional GPIO pins, easyC/Qwiic compatibility, and support for I…
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"Ever wonder what a 2,000-year-old fast-food restaurant might look like? Well, new photos from researchers might give you an idea. Archaeologists said on Saturday they excavated a complete thermo…
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"A group of shareholders is suing Pinterest and its board of directors, alleging that the company violated its fiduciary duty, wasted corporate assets, and abused its control by fostering a syste…
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"Chinese regulators have launched an anti-monopoly investigation into Alibaba and called in for talks its online finance spinoff, Ant Group – increasing pressure on the e-commerce company founded…
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"The WW84 viewership and accelerated work on Wonder Woman 3 aren’t surprising. Most US movie theaters are closed due to COVID-19, and the holiday would have left many people at home regardless. M…
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"It followed the A-series design philosophy, with a combination of large high-performance cores and smaller high-efficiency cores, in this case four of each, compared with the A14’s two+four. The…
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"Watches like the new Breguet Tradition Automatique 7097 Boutique Edition can be used to explain the difference between Haute Horlogerie timepieces and ordinary luxury watches. Breguet Tradition …
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"Thomas Young, also known as 'The Last Person Who Knew Everything.' The 18th-century British polymath came up with the wave theory of light, first described astigmatism, and played a ke…
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"Stock in electric truck startup Nikola has plunged for the second straight day after a short-selling investment firm published a bombshell report alleging that the company's December 2016 u…
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"Lawmakers are cramming multiple controversial copyright provisions into a must-pass spending bill at the eleventh hour, stirring up pushback from tech companies and civil liberties activists who…
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"The Gita by Piaggio Fast Forward is the weirdest product (project?) I’ve ever reviewed. Created by a skunkworks associated with Italy’s Piaggio Group—makers of the Vespa—the Gita is a mobility t…
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"The Simpsons’ thick stew of historical references, literary allusion, pop culture trivia, neologism, and comedic invention has long invited viewers to break one of the golden rules of comedy: Th…
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"Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are primarily made of hydrogen and helium, at a time when astronomers thought that the Sun and the Earth had no significant elemental differences. …
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"The Dadabots team, CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, trained the RNN with two hours of bass improvisation from YouTuber Adam Neely. After some trial and error, Carr and Zukowski limited the dataset to …
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"A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes an…