Did you know elephants are helping shape robot design?
Their trunks' precise movements have been inspiring new tech innovations for 20 years. Researchers are using the insights to create robotic limbs with precise grips that can work to pick up objects in the unpredictable real world:
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Elephants use the tips of their trunks to grasp things with great precision – how this can help robotic design
New research has found that the two ‘fingers’ on the tip of an elephant’s trunk exert different forces. The finding will be used to improve the abilities of bio-inspired robots.The Conversation
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Ein schlechter Scherz? Leider nein. Statt das 49-Euro-Ticket zu sichern, will die Regierung das Dienstwagenprivileg ausbauen.
Wir fordern zusammen mit vielen weiteren Verbänden, den Haushalt an sozialer Gerechtigkeit und Klimaschutz zu orientieren!
49-Euro-Ticket für alle statt Luxus-Dienstwagen für wenige! Dafür machen wir Druck! Willst du uns dabei helfen? Dann unterschreibe jetzt unsere Petition!
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49-Euro-Ticket-Petition: Bus & Bahn für alle, überall!
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#roffit converts manpages to HTML. Another side project of mine for over twenty years.
GitHub - bagder/roffit: converts nroff man pages to HTML
converts nroff man pages to HTML. Contribute to bagder/roffit development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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That's awesome. I have recently been looking into utilizing manpages for API documentation (silly usecase, i know 😅) so someone can open /manpage or use curl and get all available APIs through html or plain text manpage-like format.
Guess i should checkout #roffit
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Selbstversuch: Wie einflussreich ist die Wirtschafts-Lobby? | Die Spur
Lobbyist*innen arbeiten im Schatten der Macht. Sie pflegen Kontakte zu Politiker*innen aller Parteien, schreiben Vorlagen für Gesetzesentwürfe und verdienen ...YouTube
Děkuji, jj je to mnohem lepší. Tak jsem rád. Dovolená může začít 🤗
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We have a small gift for the #Fediverse today: over the past 8 months, we've been building an icon library for various decentralized social platforms and protocols within the space. It's an ongoing effort, and we're happy to release our initial version today. It's like Font Awesome, but for the Social Web!
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Introducing Decentralized Social Icons
Over the past year, we've been looking at how to solve a really specific niche problem. We've been building dedicated news hubs on our site for various platforms, and thought it would be nice to storeSean Tilley (We Distribute)
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If there's one article you read today, it should be this one about the Darien gap.
We are so unprepared for the future.
Stop Running Google Chrome Immediately
I warned you when the Manifest v3 rollout was announced, I warned you just before it's started, this is your very final warning to stop running Google Chrome...YouTube
iAccessibility Community
The community forums for the iAccessibility website.iAccessibility Community
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What's new with iAccessibility
Today's conversation features Taylor Arndt and Michael Babcock, where we dive into the world of AI capabilities, particularly focusing on the potential of utilizing GPT 4.0 for content creation...iACast
Just posted on Six Colors: Apple’s permissions features are out of balance
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Apple’s permissions features are out of balance
In an attempt to protect Mac users from getting themselves into trouble, Apple introduced numerous permissions pop-ups into macOS Catalina. In the years since, the company has accelerated its appro…Six Colors
Y'know, for a project that really likes to dogpile on bloggers for not citing them, LuaJIT's docs are incredibly sparse.
I say this as a person trying to learn about its internals.
Below, the closest thing to docs or papers I can find on their site. Yes, it's instructing you to google basic compiler terminology, plus a 2009 mailing list post.
The amount of interpretive labor this asks of its reader is huge. I'm good, I'll read about other JITs.
Apple Voice Control solves a huge accessibility problem in iOS 18
A disability campaigner has highlighted what he says is a huge accessibility breakthrough with Voice Control in the latest iPhone...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
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Spelling is a known thing that LLMs are bad at, and it doesn't reflect on their performance on other problems.
LLMs don't see language like we do, all input is first tokenized (AKA turned into subwords) before passed into an LLM.
Most common words are just one token, long and unusual words are two or three. Common combinations of letters, like "ing", "able", "anti" etc also form tokens, so a word like "antiwiral" might be passed as ["anti", "wir", "al"].
LLMs have never really seen letters, you can imagine them as extremely intellectually sophisticated people who enjoy all content through audiobooks and have never actually seen written text.
What’s It Like To Freeze Your Credit Report? I Had To Find Out - CNET Money
Freezing my credit will make applying for new credit accounts a bit more inconvenient. But it's worth it.Danni Santana (CNET)
The conspiracy theorists who think Biden has been replaced by AI
Anything you dislike can now be called an "AI fake."
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A linguist explores what Kamala Harris's voice and speech reveal about her identity
If you like language studies, this is interesting
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#HarrisWalz #Harris2024 #Harris #KamalaHarris2024
A linguist explores what Kamala Harris's voice and speech reveal about her identity
Every now and then, a scholar's niche expertise lines up with a cultural or political moment and finds an audience hungry for the details. Nicole Holliday is having one of those moments.Jason Pohl (Phys.org)
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