Data centers are the backbone of the digital world, they are responsible for 1% of world’s electricity use. Good news though – all hyperscalers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) have worked hard to make them as efficient as possible. As recent a research paper found out, between 2010 and 2019 the computational…
Rahul Vohra (founder of Superhuman, my favourite email app) spoke about how he designed an enterprise application based on 7 primary game design principles to make it fun, rewarding and productive. Principles of Game Design: * Create concrete, achievable, and rewarding goals * Design for nuanced emotion * Create rapid and robust controls…
Art knows no limits… Beautiful examples of CSS perfection to draw famous images. Fun fact – it looks different depending on the browser you choose 🙂 Hint: Chrome and Safari show it best. “The Simpsons” by Chriss Pattle “Portrait” and “Fruits poster” by Diana Smith…
In case you want to share photos and videos on internet, but don’t want face recognition engines to identify you, there might be an interesting solution – a digital cloaking filter. An increasing number of researchers focus on the problem on how to reclaim digital privacy while still participating in…
The good old times, the winning quality of antivirus solution depended on how fast would they find out about a new threat, then add its fingerprint to the signature files (to be able to block it) and finally distribute it to its customers. Too many steps where each could go…
Best quotes from Elon’s investor talk on Car Autonomy: In the future, people will want to outlaw people driving their own cars because they’ll be unsafe The probability of the steering wheel being taken away is 100%. Consumers will demand it. We have quite a good simulation, but…
Andrew Tallon worked for years with most modern laser scanners to capture the entirety of the Notre Dame cathedral’s interior and exterior in meticulous 3D point clouds – resulting in a billion points of light, revealing a living structure. Great National Geographic documentary (watch).…
Elon Musk’s answer during an intriguing interview on Artificial Intelligence (must-watch!) to what would he ask an an all-knowing-machine (AGI) : …“What’s outside the simulation?”…