“A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, 1980
It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?” None of those things, of course. Read more
Next China: Debt Gets Painful Again
After a Covid-induced interlude, tackling China’s debt problem now appears to be back on Beijing’s agenda. In the past two weeks, three state-owned firms have defaulted on bonds. One was a coal miner based in central China. Read more
DEPTH CAMERA CENTRAL VOLUME 21-PART 2 APPLE IPAD PRO LiDAR REVIEW
Welcome to Depth Camera Central Volume 21-Part 2! I review the Apple iPad Pro LiDAR sensor via a few different visualizations. iFixit Teardown: ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gx_wnM8 LiDAR Applications: SiteScape (Andy Putch & Jim Selikoff): ⬇️ https://ift.tt/3fPHgyN 3D Scanner App: ⬇️ Read more
被售楼处人脸识别拍到，买房多花30万？有人被迫戴头盔看房
想买房的你走进了一家售楼处。热情的工作人员举着托盘走到你身边，托盘上放着三种不同的饮料。在接下来的一个小时里，他会替你考虑周末去哪娱乐，孩子在哪上学，怎样付款“最划算”…… Read more
全国三分之二集装箱不见了？砸钱、抢柜、夺船，真·八仙过海
全国三分之二的集装箱不见了，谁手上有箱，谁就能在广东的码头有“话语权”。 这是真刀真枪砸钱的时候了，运一个集装箱去美国或英国，甭管里面装什么，5000美元起步价，可能还有附加费。 Read more
Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps
If you followed the recent Apple events, you probably saw a picture of the A14 and M1 dies… that got me thinking about what you would see if you could pass iOS under X-Rays… In my previous article about the evolution of the programming languages from iPhone OS 1. Read more
阿里巴巴上市背后的“红二代”赢家
这笔交易被宣扬为中国历史上规模最大的一次私营部门融资。2012年9月，阿里巴巴集团(Alibaba Group)宣布，已经完成了回购一半雅虎所持阿里巴巴股份的交易，金额为76亿美元（当时约合480亿元人民币）。这家电商巨头通过向顶尖 Read more
Egypt’s Dam Problem: The Geopolitics of the Nile
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Remember, This Meeting Never Happened! 🚶🚶♀️
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://ift.tt/2YuG7Yf ❤️ Their report on this exact paper is available here: https://ift.tt/37iZZjd 📝 The paper “Layered Neural Rendering for Reti Read more
阿塞拜疆总统宣布国家进入战争状态，意味着什么？
这些公司生产的产品——尤其是房子和路桥——多数都给卖给土耳其本国人，收的自然是里拉。这么一来回，里拉的需求就起来了，土耳其的经济也“繁荣”了。 Read more