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Over a decade after the idea of “big data” was first born, data continues to be one of the most important and furiously growing innovation drivers across both large enterprises and new startups. From providing pulse checks that are foundational to business operations to intelligently automating daily tasks through machine learning, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in
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to break the ski jump and ski flying world records you need a hill bigger than standard competition ski jumps. Olympic medallist and FIS World Cup Champion Ryōyū Kobayashi and his team headed to Akureyri in northern Iceland, and carved a special kicker out of snow on the side of the mountain with the single intention of creating a jump big enough to smash world records 🎿 #RedBull #GivesYouWiiin
The world’s oldest tree, Old Tjikko, is a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce tree that was discovered in 2004 by Professor Leif Kullman, and to this day remains the world’s oldest tree. The tree is located on Fulufjället, in the province of Dalarna. Kullman, professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University, named the tree after his Siberian husky and discovered the age of the tree by using the carb
This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For simplicity we’re only going to do part 1 of the day 2 problem here, but the exact same techniques apply to part 2. We’re go
According to consultancy Parrot Analytics, global demand for anime content grew 118 percent over the past two years, making it one of the fastest-growing content genres throughout the pandemic (the firm measures its demand metric by combining consumption data with social media activity, social video and independent research). “Even in pandemic times, still the anime market thrived,” noted Kana Koi
(Image credit: Shutterstock)Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world, c
Where Is the World's Most Dangerous Drinking Water? What could be simpler than drinking a glass of water? In the UK, when you turn on the tap, you assume what comes out will be drinkable. Indeed, the UN General Assembly recognises access to safe drinking water as a human right. And yet, more than a quarter of the world's population lives in water-stressed countries, and a similar number use a drin
There are some individuals who find sorting LEGO pieces therapeutic, but most of us loathe the task. And there are entirely non-LEGO machines that could do it, although what fun is that? Some people have tried to use LEGO to build sorting machines, yet their limitations have been quickly apparent. Enter Daniel West and his incredible Universal LEGO Sorting Machine! This baby uses Artificial Intell
For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft's Windows in a commanding lead at number one and Apple's macOS in distant second place. But in 2020, Chrome OS became the second-most popular OS, and Apple fell to third. That's according to numbers from market data firm IDC and a report on IDC's data by publication GeekWire. C
It is the World’s FIRST Consumer-level ARM-based Linux Tablet. It is the World’s FIRST Linux Tablet with a 11″ 2K+ Display. It is the World’s FIRST Linux Tablet that comes with a detachable Trackpad-Keyboard. It is the World’s FIRST Linux Tablet that comes with a 4096 LP Stylus. It is the FIRST Tablet powered by JingOS – the FIRST Linux Tablet OS. It is the FIRST Time you can use a Linux-based Tab
The world’s newest island has risen from the sea off the coast of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean. Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) told CNN the unnamed island was formed by an undersea volcanic eruption. Its rise from the ocean was documented in pictures taken by the country’s Maritime Self-Defense Force on November 1. The photos show a small eruption sending a dark cloud
Mass-producible open-source Covid-19 ARDS ventilator. Aims at helping hospitals cope with a possible shortage of professional ventilators during the outbreak. Worldwide. Makair ventilator is the world's first open-source ventilator tested with success on human patients with ongoing clinical trials in France. We are a distributed team of 200+ contributors (engineering, medical, regulatory, etc.), m
The painting is the earliest known example of representational art The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists. The painting of a wild pig and three human-like figures is at least 51,200 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that mode
Sweden largely avoided imposing prohibitions. The government allowed restaurants, gyms, shops, playgrounds and most schools to remain open.Credit...Johan Nilsson/EPA, via Shutterstock LONDON — Ever since the coronavirus emerged in Europe, Sweden has captured international attention by conducting an unorthodox, open-air experiment. It has allowed the world to examine what happens in a pandemic when
こんにちは、株もっちーです。 月曜日は、VISUAL CAPITALISTなどから、気になる話題を取り上げてみます。 世界のミリオネア人口でみた裕福な都市をランク付け 気づいたこと ミリオネアとビリオネアの間に、センチミリオネア 過去のビリオネアに冠する記事 行動したこと 引用元|VISUAL CAPITALIST Ranked: The World’s Wealthiest Cities, by Number of Millionaires まとめ 世界のミリオネア人口でみた裕福な都市をランク付け 気づいたこと 東京って、ミリオネア人口多いんですね。 日本3大都市とか大阪・名古屋・札幌とかいろいろ説がありますけど、世界で見ればミリオネア数を誇れる都市はTokyoの1都市だけと言えそうです。 東京のビリオネア人口では、ミリオネア人口15位の Zurich と同じ12人のようです。 ミリオネ
In 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping donned military fatigues and boarded a People’s Liberation Army Navy destroyer in the South China Sea. Spread out before him that April day was the largest flotilla Communist-ruled China had ever put to sea at one time, 48 ships, dozens of fighter jets, more than 10,000 military personnel. For Xi, the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, the day wa
Locusts: A close-up look at the swarms devouring the world's crops Huge swarms of desert locusts are wreaking havoc in parts of East Africa, Asia and the Middle East, threatening crops, livelihoods and food supplies. It is already the worst locust infestation in decades, but the forthcoming rainy season could see numbers increase a further 20-fold in some places if swarms are not tackled. What are
The smallest PNG file is 67 bytes. It’s a single black pixel. Here’s what it looks like, zoomed in 200×: Wow, what a beauty. This file has four sections: The PNG signature, the same for every PNG: 8 bytes The image’s metadata, which includes its dimensions: 25 bytes The image’s pixel data: 22 bytes An “end of image” marker: 12 bytes The rest of this post describes this file in more detail and trie
Photo by Hert Niks on Unsplash 完全に正しい歴史は存在するのか 一昔前、広告会社の表現担当者たちが新聞広告という枠でその腕を競う新聞広告クリエーティブコンテストで、素晴らしいキャッチフレーズが受賞したことがありました。 それは、子供のつたない手書きの文字で書かれた「ボクのおとうさんは、桃太郎というやつに殺されました。」というもの。(↓こちらです) 最優秀賞「めでたし、めでたし?」 確かにこの世の全てのめでたしめでたしの裏には、その犠牲になる存在がいます。そして何をもってめでたしとするかについては、みんなで真摯に考え、悩み、議論し続けることが過去から学ぶことで前進してきた人類としての責務なのだと思います。 今回はそんなことを深く考えさせられる、VICEワールドニュースによる意義深い取り組みをご紹介します。先日行われたアジア太平洋・アセアニア地域におけるクリエーテ
The Roma is based on a computing platform known as Wujian 600 aimed at cost-effective edge computing. The CPU in the laptop is an Alibaba T-Head TH1520 quad-core Xuantie C910 processor that’s clocked at up to 2.5GHz with a 4 TOPS NPU and an Imagination Technologies GPU on the side. It can support up to 16GB LPDDR4 or 4X RAM at up to 4266 MT/s, and has 256GB of SSD storage.
こんにちは、株もっちーです。 土曜日は指数チェックだけでは物足りなくなってしまったので、小ネタ。 VISUAL CAPITALISTから気が向いた時に、気になる話題を取り上げてみます。 世界の人口が80億人の分布をビジュアル化 気づいたこと 行動したこと 引用元|VISUAL CAPITALIST Visualized: The World’s Population at 8 Billion まとめ 世界の人口が80億人の分布をビジュアル化 気づいたこと 中国も14億人とすごいですが、インドも14億人超えています、いつの間にという感じです、すごいですね。 そりゃビリオネアも誕生するわと思ってしまいました。 中国もインドもアジアで、日本もアジアでしたね。 台頭しようとして、日本が抑え込まれ、中国も抑え込まれ、インドはどうなるでしょうか。 誰に抑え込まれたかって、そりゃあ資本主義のビリオネアた
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