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alis_ OS | Visual Cinnamon

alis_ was looking for a way to visualize the services running on their custom alis_ OS. To reveal if the OS was running well, which tasks were failing. But also to show the dependencies of services having created new services and so on. And to have a clear differentiation between their domains. alis_ OS | Visual Cinnamon

Innovation Isn’t All Fun and Games — Creativity Needs Discipline

The conventional wisdom is that successful innovation depends on providing an environment where there’s a tolerance for failure and a willingness to experiment, it’s safe to speak up, and it’s highly collaborative and nonhierarchical. The reality is that these elements do not suffice. Innovation Isn’t All Fun and Games — Creativity Needs Discipline

Oh no, Samsung can animate your face from a single photo

Two years ago, a new, freely distributed AI software called “Deepfakes” enabled the public to melt reality by placing anyone’s head on someone else’s body in any video. Deepfakes is powerful, scary, and just labor intensive enough that our world hasn’t imploded yet. Oh no, Samsung can animate your face from a single photo

Alcoholism: Psychedelics Like LSD, Psilocybin Show Potential for Treatment

In the ‘50s through the ‘70s, psychedelic drugs were studied for their potential to help people stop problematic drinking. At the time, the research primarily focused on the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), which seemed to help curb alcohol addiction, albeit not consistently. Alcoholism: Psychedelics Like LSD, Psilocybin Show Potential for Treatment

Posters - Byrne’s Euclid

Decorate your walls with a colorful detailed poster of every geometric illustration from Oliver Byrne’s colorful 1847 edition of Euclid’s . Each illustration was carefully reproduced with geometric accuracy, arranged, and labeled as they appear in Byrne’s original 1847 publication. Posters - Byrne’s Euclid

Don Norman on how design fails older consumers

More people than ever are living long, healthy lives. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the average life expectancy is 78.6 years for men and 81.1 for women. More relevant, however, is that as people grow older, their total life expectancy increases. Don Norman on how design fails older consumers

Universal Pattern Explains Why Materials Conduct | Quanta Magazine

In a wire, electrons rebound off each other in such a complicated fashion that there’s no way to follow exactly what’s happening. But over the last 50 years, mathematicians and physicists have begun to grasp that this blizzard of movement settles into elegant statistical patterns. Universal Pattern Explains Why Materials Conduct | Quanta Magazine

The Google Cemetery - Google Graveyard: Dead Google products

Fabric, an expansion of functionality into mobile app analytics, beta distribution, and user identity and authentication. Reason of discontinuation is Google is integrating Fabric into Firebase. Google Fusion Tables (or simply Fusion Tables) is a web service provided by Google for data management. The Google Cemetery - Google Graveyard: Dead Google products

Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits - The way o

THINGS WERE different 28 years ago, when Zhou Xueyu and her husband moved from the coastal province of Shandong to Beijing and began selling fresh pork. The Xinfadi agricultural market where they opened their stall was then a small outpost of the capital. Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits - The way o

Wizard of Oz experiment - Wikipedia

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Vijf horrorverhalen over vaccins tegen het licht - en ontkracht | De Volksk

Een goed halfuur is het gesprek bezig als Door Frankema van de Stichting Vaccinvrij opeens volschiet. ‘Wij willen als ouders gewoon weten dat het veilig is’, breekt haar stem. Een paar seconden maar. Dan herpakt ze zich. Bliksemende ogen: ‘De ouders hebben er hun buik van vol. Vijf horrorverhalen over vaccins tegen het licht - en ontkracht | De Volksk