Tag: computers

September 18, 2015 at 4:04 pm

A Senior Learning to Use the Internet Just Wrote This Letter to Her Teacher

A Senior Learning to Use the Internet Just Wrote This Letter to Her Teacher

This hit me right in the feels.

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September 9, 2015 at 11:12 am

This Algorithm Turns Your Photos Into the Style of a Famous Painting

This Algorithm Turns Your Photos Into the Style of a Famous Painting

Researchers at the University of Tubingen have devised an algorithm that can analyze a painting and then apply its ‘style’ to any image.

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August 24, 2015 at 10:15 am

How Old School 80s Graphics Worked

How Old School 80s Graphics Worked

The limitations of color and memory these designers faced with will give you a newfound appreciation for the artwork they were able to create.

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June 16, 2015 at 5:54 pm

What a Machine Learning Mario Can Teach Us About Evolution

What a Machine Learning Mario Can Teach Us About Evolution

In this informative video, Seth Bling discusses neural evolution and explains how a machine learning Mario teaches us about evolution.

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February 5, 2015 at 9:42 am

How ‘Green Screen’ Worked Before Computers

How 'Green Screen' Worked Before Computers

For those of us who grew up in the age of CGI, green screen is just “a thing that computers do”. But how did effects like this work before the age of pixels? With the help of some suitably shiny graphics, here’s a quick summary by Tom Scott. If you enjoyed the video above,…

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December 18, 2014 at 5:29 pm

Picture of the Day: Delivering a Computer in 1957

Picture of the Day: Delivering a Computer in 1957

Photograph via Norfolk Record Office Seen here is the Norwich City Council’s first computer, being delivered to the City Treasurer’s Department in Bethel Street, Norwich in 1957. The City of Norwich, and its forward-thinking Treasurer, Mr A.J. Barnard, were pioneers in the application of computer technology to the work of UK local authorities and…

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April 13, 2014 at 12:22 pm

Steve Jobs and the Bicycle of the Mind

Steve Jobs and the Bicycle of the Mind

A young Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) marvels at humankind’s ability to build tools as a way of amplifying our natural capabilities. Recounting a story he read as a child about the efficiency of locomotion amongst various species on Earth, a human on a bicycle ‘blew away the competition’. For Jobs, the computer is…

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March 27, 2014 at 5:10 pm

Picture of the Day: Long Exposure Keyboard Zoom

Picture of the Day: Long Exposure Keyboard Zoom

LONG EXPOSURE KEYBOARD ZOOM Photograph by LUKE STAFF Website | Flickr How cool is this! Photographer Luke Staff took a long exposure of his backlit keyboard while slowly zooming in and this was the result. Luke posted the image to reddit back in December of 2013. In the comments Luke explains how…

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February 17, 2014 at 1:09 pm

Picture of the Day: USB Drive 2004 vs 2014

Picture of the Day: USB Drive 2004 vs 2014

USB DRIVE 2004 vs 2014 Photograph by PNG1 on reddit What a difference 10 years make! In this great ‘then and now’ comparison, we see a USB flash drive from 2004 vs a USB flash drive from 2014. For the non-techies, the USB drive on the bottom is 64 mb while the…

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December 19, 2013 at 6:42 pm

Artist Prints 4.7 Million Leaked LinkedIn Passwords in Eight, 800-page Books

Artist Prints 4.7 Million Leaked LinkedIn Passwords in Eight, 800-page Books

In June 2012, a hacker uploaded 6,458,020 hashed passwords (just the passwords, not the associated usernames) to a Russian hacker forum. The source? LinkedIn. The massive list quickly spread online and became an embarrassment for LinkedIn and a joke for the Internet as some of the passwords were pretty ‘weak’ (see here and here…

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