In a world premiere trailer at the Microsoft E3 conference, a new Microsoft Flight Simulator was announced. The series has been dormant since the ill-fated free-to-play game, Microsoft Flight, came out in 2012. According to the new Flight Simulator’s reveal trailer, the landscape and terrain is powered by satellite data.

From light planes to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and stunning aircraft in an incredibly realistic world. Create your flight plan and fly anywhere on the planet. Enjoy flying day or night and face realistic, challenging weather conditions.

It’s been seven years since the release of Cart Life, and six years since Hofmeier became a household name among indie-game fans. In March, he published a game called Type Dreams on indie-distribution hub Itch, his first major release since Cart Life. VIDEO
Cart Life was available to purchase on Steam for a year before Hofmeier unceremoniously removed it and made the entire entire game open source.

Rumors suggested Microsoft would launch two new Xbox consoles in 2020, with one designed to be the equivalent of the current Xbox One X and the other, the Xbox One S. We’re now starting to get more information on the next high-end Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett. Project Scarlett test board

Scarlett will go up against Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Google’s Stadia service

This new Project Scarlett console will support 8K gaming, framerates of up to 120fps in games, ray-tracing, and variable refresh rate support. Halo Infinite is also launching alongside Microsoft’s new Project Scarlett Xbox console, setting the stage for the next generation of Microsoft’s console gaming.

Edsel, the son of Sam Wo’s owner, began as a waiter and soon became the restaurant’s coming attraction — and for an unlikely reason: he was the rudest, most despotic waiter to ever walk the earth. Edsel was also known for his crass “flirtation:” an entire wall at Sam Wo was dedicated to Polaroid photos of the waiter in various degrees of groping unsuspecting young females. Herb Caen, the Pulitzer Prize winning San Francisco Chronicle writer, was a regular lunch customer at Sam Wo’s throughout the 60s and would often publish Edsel’s remarks in his columns.

So if we have a single pixel with the following color:

Then the first byte stores the value , second stores the value and the last stores the value . However, that only works when we have one byte per pixel, since we interleaved R, G and B, we need to actually move in units of what ever is, so multiplying the whole thing by , or in the general case gives us the 1D location of the pixel. That brings us to this really tiny image which is actually a font atlas built off his work, each pixels represents a character.

Figure 2 illustrates this on a graph $G=(V,E)$ with a slightly adjusted filtration setup: Earlier, all points in our space represented their own connected component at step $m=0$. Let’s take a closer look at figure 2 to understand how a persistence diagram comes into existence:

Given a point $(x,y)$ from the persistence diagram $\mathcal{D}$, the persistence of the connected component which is represented by this tuple is defined as $$\text{pers}(x,y) := |y-x|. Furthermore, we can summarize these topological features of a persistence diagram by its $p$-norm: $$ ||\mathcal{D}||_p:= \Big(\sum_{(c,d)\in $$

I hope this post helped you to get an idea of what persistent homology is and you might already ponder about how to apply this to deep learning.

The other day someone pointed me to this article by James Kaufman and Vlad Glǎveanu in a psychology journal which begins:

This claim is situated in the context of a fight in psychology between the traditionalists (who want published work to stand untouched and respected for as long as possible) and replicators (who typically don’t trust a claim until it is reproduced by an outside lab). And if an Association for Psychological Science journal doesn’t want to publish your article (perhaps because you don’t have personal connections with the editors; see P.S. below), then you can publish it in some other journal. Similarly, people who have criticized Sternberg’s policy of filling up journals with papers by himself and his friends, and suppressing dissent, have done so because they too feel that psychology is important—important enough that they want to stop the implementation of policies that they think will slow down research in the field.

After graduating from Yale in 2010, Ms. Marcus founded a Deep Springs-style program for women: the Arete Project, in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. “I do wonder whether or not it’s mission-critical for an educational institution to have a fully articulated metaphysics and ethics and politics that underpin it — or to what extent that is inhibitive to the broader project of liberal education,” Ms. Marcus told me. Outer Coast and the Arete Project represent one strain of higher education reform: call them the communitarian pragmatists, with liberal arts for the mind, labor for the body and an ethos of secular monasticism for the spirit.

See for yourself:

After I powered up the newly flashed access point/router, configured WPA2 for my wireless network and connected the USB LTE modem (after I put in my old router’s SIM card first). When I checked the access point’s web interface no USB LTE modem was detected. The USB LTE stick was not detected as an USB LTE modem but as a network device — including routes for the internet standard gateway, etc.