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MAY 4, 2022

Part of that game requires procedural dungeons that are different each time you play. Tags: game , Matt Dray , R. Matt Dray is developing a package in R that runs a text-based game.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Conway’s game grew on Pandora the more she played. Tags: Alexander Miller , fable , Game of Life Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life with Pandora’s Box. Something was hidden within this deceptively simple format.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

You can get the app, or you can play with it in your browser. Tags: AI , Wombo. Wombo Dream is a fun app that lets you enter some words to output a related AI-powered artwork in various styles. I entered my dissertation title.

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JULY 12, 2021

cs used sets of animated triangles to show how each match played out. Tags: Krisztina Sz?cs Krisztina Sz?cs The triangles in the middle move up as each team scores, and the triangles on the side represent penalty kicks. cs , soccer.

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MARCH 11, 2022

Apparently a lot of people play it, so much so that Robert Lesser collected 15 million Wordle-related tweets since January. Tags: Robert Lesser , Twitter , Wordle. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s this game called Wordle. You get a certain number of guesses to figure out a five-letter word each day.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It started with the first store in 1962, which opened in Minnesota, and then the animation played through 2009. Tags: animation , target I made a map some years ago that showed Target store openings over time. This is a recreation of that map. It was really common, but then suddenly it was not anymore. I finally remade the thing.

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JUNE 6, 2023

When you first learn to play music, a lot of the instruction is about structure. Tags: beats , Michelle McGhee , music , Pudding Turn the metronome on and follow the beats straight up. James Dewitt Yancey, also known as J Dilla, shifted the beats for a different feel and sound. Turn the sound on and press the buttons.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I’m partial to the triangle timelines, which play well to sports with back and forth scores. Tags: animation , Krisztina Sz?cs cs likes to make animated charts to show sports results, from fencing, handball, soccer, to hockey. She cataloged all of her sports charts in one place. cs , sports.

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MARCH 28, 2023

In fact, after playing with this interactive map by Russell Samora for The Pudding , it seems more likely that cities share a name with another than not. Tags: cities , geography , Pudding , Russell Samora Throughout the United States, there are a surprising number of cities that have the same name. Don’t quote me on that.)

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JULY 29, 2022

Tags: lottery , probability. (On the other hand, the more tickets purchased overall, the greater the chances that someone in the country wins.) For The Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz and Shelly Tan made a playful quiz to test your perception of 1 in 302.6

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MAY 9, 2022

Racing and thunder sounds play in the background for dramatic effect. Tags: Formula 1 , Joey Cherdarchuk , race. The x-axis represents how far ahead or behind the each racer is compared to the average. The y-axis represents laps. I’m into it.

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MAY 3, 2021

Ben Golliver and Artur Galocha for The Washington Post provide perspective on just how record-setting Curry’s current play is. I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t satisfying to see half of the comparisons show how Curry has played better than James Harden. Tags: basketball , Stephen Curry , Washington Post.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

I played a small part on the data side of this project. Tags: elections , midterm , USAFacts. USAFacts mapped all the different communities for the upcoming midterm elections , so you can see the elections where you are. Select other places and compare.

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JUNE 10, 2021

You can find the data via StatsBomb , in case you want to play around. Tags: Karim Douïeb , passing , soccer. It looks cool as a static point cloud, but be sure to check out the animated, interactive version which lets you isolate the view to specific parts of the field. It reminds me of the Windows 3.1 fireworks screensaver.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As explained by Stuart McDonald, Simpson’s Paradox is at play : [W]ithin the 10-59 age band, the average unvaccinated person is much younger than the average vaccinated person, and therefore has a lower death rate. Tags: coronavirus , Simpson's Paradox , vaccination.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If I record a song in the key of C major into digital recording software, like Logic or ProTools, and then decide I don’t like that key, I don’t have to play it again in that new key. Tags: Billboard , keys , music , Tedium. I can just use my software to shift it into that different key. I’m no longer constrained by my instrument.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

As you’d expect, money plays a big role in the changing efficiencies. Tags: architecture , temperature , United Kingdom , Washington Post. With its glittering array of tall windows, it was vulnerable to the cold, but key design elements made it surprisingly efficient at managing the climate of its day.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Tags: basketball , ESPN , NBA , tracking In addition, the system will give the NBA and its teams the ability to measure and analyze athletic movement in new ways. I think I liked sports better with just the box score. I might just be showing my age though.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

It has sound, pretty watercolors, and it’s fun to play. Tags: game , gerrymandering , golf , redistricting , Washington Post. The shapes grow more complex as you progress, and the game keeps score for you, so that you can compare your score to par or how other readers performed. In the process, the Post tricks you into learning.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 6, 2023

It is likely to play a major role in the development of AR technology in the years to come. Apple R1 chip is one of the reasons for Vision Pro’s $3499 price tag The Vision Pro headset’s high price tag is a direct result of the cutting-edge technology and creative design that went into creating the Apple R1 chip.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

In case you’re not so good with the words, but feel the social pressure to play Wordle bearing down on you, Jonathan Olson made an optimized solver : The game Wordle has a lot of speculation online about what is the “best” first word. Tags: game , Jonathan Olson , optimization , Wordle.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

There’s click-and-play programs, web-based products, programming languages, and command-line options. Tags: exploration , thread. Browse the thousands of replies, and you quickly see that (1) there are many options to explore a dataset and (2) many people feel that what they’re using is the best option.

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MARCH 4, 2022

For The Markup, continuing their reports on data privacy, Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan discuss the non-regulation of the location data industry : Without government regulation, the current approach from Apple and Google is to play catch-up with data brokers for each new way that location data can be shared, experts said.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This pint-sized powerhouse, no larger than a deck of playing cards, packs a punch with its Thunderbolt 3 connectivity and the mighty NVIDIA RTX A500 4GB GDDR6 GPU under the hood. This portable, plug and play AI accelerator delivers a perfect power/performance balance from the NVIDIA RTX GPU.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Tags: augmented reality , Everyday Experiments , privacy. Each character’s design would hint at the device it represents while remaining playful and open to interpretation (e.g. a character that resembles a TV portraying your TV). The playful, cartoon-like devices contrast with the more creepy angle of a connected home.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

As the trip continues, additional information is collected: the vehicle location and speed, whether the brakes are applied, which song is playing on the entertainment system, whether the headlights are on or the oil level is low. Tags: car , privacy , The Markup.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Tags: curves , optimization , research. In contrast to local collision detection strategies used in, e.g., physical simulation, this energy considers interactions between all pairs of points, and is hence useful for global shape optimization: local minima tend to be aesthetically pleasing, physically valid, and nicely distributed in space.

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JUNE 5, 2023

For example, it would seem that if you play Blackjack following the same strategy as the dealer, the odds of you winning and losing would be even. Tags: gambling , Las Vegas , probability But the dealer will always take your money if you bust, regardless of what hand they get. That’s enough advantage for the casino.

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MARCH 28, 2024

However, behind these enticing price tags lie alarming environmental concerns and reports of unethical labor practices in its Chinese factories. He emphasizes the need for regulatory measures to level the playing field and promote sustainable practices within the fashion industry. With t-shirts priced as low as €1.50

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Data visualizations can play a critical role in teaching and communication, provided that designers tailor those visualizations to their audience. Tags: perception , research. Effective graphics avoid taxing working memory, guide attention, and respect familiar conventions. The paper is free to access.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Optionally, add any tags. For more information about tagging Amazon Personalize resources, see Tagging Amazon Personalize resources. In his spare time, he enjoys writing and playing soccer. Outside of his work, he loves playing soccer and is an avid follower of Real Madrid.

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Data Science Dojo

AUGUST 4, 2023

You can play around with both using CLI, or GUI using Docker Desktop. The underlying principle used to create isolated environments for running applications is called Virtualization. The structure of a Docker Image is that it contains instructions for creating a container. The repository name can be anything you choose.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Each person comes with a picture, a price tag (yes, you read that right), and even reviews if you’re curious about what others think. Some folks raised eyebrows about the different price tags on people, wondering if it’s a subtle nod to social inequalities. Want someone who’s the right height for you?

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APRIL 20, 2022

And this is frustrating for some people, but that 61 percent should be interpreted as: “if these teams played 100 times, we would expect Marquette to win 61 of those games.” Tags: probability , sports , Zack Capozzi. It definitely does not mean that the model is 61 percent confident that Marquette will win.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

On the 9th, Reuters reported that the tool uses machine learning to tag scenes from the company’s vast media library. The way it works is by analyzing and tagging scenes, the Magic Words AI helps to identify content, brands, images , and even the mood within each scene being played.

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Data Science Dojo

JULY 31, 2023

AI in SEO: Search landscape and empowering financial institutions Basically, AI has managed to prove that you don’t need teams of people looking up keywords, creating content, developing SEO strategies, writing meta tags, and doing all the rest of the tedious tasks that the “SEO bros” have spent their time on over the last decade.

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AssemblyAI

MARCH 3, 2024

Produce digestible insights that can be easily categorized, tagged, and searched. For example, users can automatically generate key highlights from survey responses, analyze customer sentiment, categorize and tag conversations, and more. Play around with powerful AI models in AssemblyAI’s free, no-code playground.

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