FlashMobOfOne

Thank you!

It’s a good start.

Pisses me off that laws are required for this, but that’s what we get for being ruled by the Epstein Class.

That’ll happen when your product sucks. We didn’t want slop, bots, and heavy-handed moderation.

A really cool story both in terms of tech and humanity, especially if you’re a history nerd like me.

The Bayeux Tapestry: how optical techniques have let this artwork come home

Researchers in France, led by Stéphane Le Mouélic from Nantes University, who originally did a PhD in astrophysics, have also used computer software to combine more than 440 overlapping 2D photos taken from multiple angles to create a detailed 3D model of the Bayeux Tapestry (J. Cult. Heritage 71 211).

It digitally “irons out” all the sags and wrinkles in the line fabric, recreating the original, “flat” tapestry and allowing the original physical shape of the artwork to be revealed for the first time. The 3D model can be viewed for free at the Bayeux Museum website, allowing historians, researchers and members of the public to study it without having to handle the delicate material.

Physics-based techniques have also allowed us to deal with the fact that parts of the fabric have been repaired over the last 900 plus years. Some of those repairs used non-authentic dyes and colours, while others covered up the original stitching. But using computer vision and image processing, threads that were added later can be subtracted digitally, providing a clearer, corrected view of what the original tapestry looked like.

Certainly seems that way.

There’s a new bug or eminently shitty feature almost every day, or at least it seems that way.

Understanding it’ll take some time for any competition to have an impact, it’s still nice to see that someone, somewhere in the world is looking at this manufactured scarcity and deciding not to exploit it.

These bastards need to pay some fucking taxes.

I truly hate this motherfucker.

Same, but it motivated me to do the work, and it’s a skill that crosses over into work life significantly.

Agreed 100%.

Every exam should have some oral component. Doesn’t need to be the whole of one’s grade, but 10% sounds about right: significant enough to be impactful, but not so significant that people with severe anxiety can’t otherwise pass.

Just another reminder in a planetary history of reminders of why our species fucking sucks.

That’s fair. Good point.

That would be the point of an oral examination.

It requires actual preparation, which is now apparently essential to demonstrate. GenAI may be able to write the answers for you, but this requires that you actually prepared to a meaningful extent.

If I were a professor in this day and age, every exam would have an oral component. If it’s a class that has a large group of people, then I’d have my TA’s run oral exams with small groups separately.

Oh dang. That’s awesome. I’ll have to look that video up, as I love it when people parse out the data and give us more insights.

I have to think that they just haven’t parsed out the games that are downloadable-only vs those that have both digital and physical editions.

I also think they don’t care and they really just want more control, like every other awful corporation driving these anti-consumer practices.

And their CEO is probably going to just get handed an extra 10 or 20 million in pay for sucking this bad, probably.

I love the utter badassery of this dude.

If anyone wants to watch a video on it and has five minutes, I whipped one up on my channel this morning.

I feel bad for them.

They probably had podcast after podcast pumping out information about SpaceX being a lock and also lack the discipline to sell when sitting on an unrealized profit; Meanwhile Elon still has 800 billion despite being a massively incompetent, douchebag silver spoon baby.