Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Online

Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Online

Data visualizing company The Visual Agency has recently released a complete digitization of Leonardo da Vinci’s 12-volume, 1,119-page Codex Atlanticus. Codex Atlanticus is the biggest collection of Da Vinci papers and it covers his entire career. You can explore the complete digitized version of Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus here.

Source: mymodernmet.com

Dnsfire: A proof-of-concept DNS-driven firewall enforcer

Dnsfire: A proof-of-concept DNS-driven firewall enforcer

DNS Firewall is a solution that prevents users and systems from connecting to malicious services by filtering DNS queries – and not returning the IP addresses of known mailicious services to user. DNSFIRE solves the problem by either logging or blocking completely connections to IP addresses that were not resolved using a local, safe, and secure DNS service. Then you can e.g. add a rule to iptables to log traffic to addresses that were not resolved using system resolver:

If your router has a CLI command to add and remove allowed IPs use:

“%s” is replaced with IP address to be added/deleted.

Source: github.com

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

Donald Trump: Change the name of the National Anthem to be called the “Fiery Gator”

Taco Bell: Offer hot wings and non-perfumed water for all customers

Do not attack the unions! The people of the world: Change the name of the planet to the Planet of the Giants

Dr James Alexander: Make the Power of the Mongoose a Part of the School’s Curriculum

There must be a story behind this one:

Theresa May MP: Stop The Pigeon Rally in Great Britain

Karen’s mother: Please bring your own breadsticks for Karen. If you are an AI yourself and want to sign on to these petitions, you can register your preference for hot wings and non-perfumed water, and/or put Karen’s mom on notice about the breadsticks.

Source: aiweirdness.com

Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users

Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users

When the list is small the performance looks pretty great measuring between 0.008𝜇s and 288𝜇s. Sadly, when the size tested was increased to 250,000 worst-case performance increased to 27,000𝜇s, which was five times faster than our custom List implementation but still not fast enough. The OrderedSet was a wrapper around a list of Cells, inside each cell was a small ordset: the first item of the ordset, the last item of the ordset, and a count of the number of items. Insertion of an item at the end of a 250,000 item list dropped from 27,000𝜇s to 5,000𝜇s, five times faster than raw ordsets and 34 times faster than the naive List implementation.

Source: blog.discordapp.com

‘I’ve become isolated’: the aftermath of near-doomed QF72

‘I’ve become isolated’: the aftermath of near-doomed QF72

They tell me they’re progressing towards the rear of the aircraft and treating the more badly injured who had been propelled into the cabin’s ceiling by the plane pitching down, but they’ve run out of neck braces. I can’t stop staring at the cabin’s ceiling, and my memory permanently records the busted plastic holes still holding on to hair and bloodied remnants of scalp, the broken luggage lockers, the dislodged ceiling panels and exposed ducting. Many have been classified as extreme events: an uncontained engine failure with strong vibration; airframe and engine damage caused by very bad hail on take-off; severe icing at altitude resulting in engine damage; and numerous fume events.

Source: www.smh.com.au

Show HN: Real-time image manipulation with Voronoi/Delaunay

Show HN: Real-time image manipulation with Voronoi/Delaunay

This project implements a small, lightweight tool for real-time image manipulation with Voronoi/Delaunay data structures. The focus of this project was, to enable users without knowledge of Voronoi or Delaunay specifics, to experiment and play with different looks a Voronoi or Delaunay structure can give to an image. When checking Adaptive Color, the lines of Delaunay edges and points will get the average color of the image underneath.

Source: github.com

60% of male managers now say they’re uncomfortable mentoring women

60% of male managers now say they’re uncomfortable mentoring women

Senior-level men also say they are 12 times more likely to be hesitant about one-on-one meetings with a junior woman than they are a junior man, nine times more likely to be hesitant to travel with a junior woman for work than a junior man, and six times more likely to be hesitant to have a work dinner with a junior woman than a junior man. Though some have argued that the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have had a negative impact on relationships between men and women at work, Sandberg disagrees. As a solution, Thomas and Sandberg say any man who doesn’t want to have work dinners with a woman should also not have work dinners with a man.

Source: uk.finance.yahoo.com

Three.js Fundamentals

Three.js Fundamentals

It handles stuff like scenes, lights, shadows, materials, textures, 3d math, all things that you’d have to write yourself if you were to use WebGL directly. Almost anything we want to display in Three.js needs geometry which defines the vertices that make up our 3D object. And finally we add that mesh to the scene

We can then render the scene by calling the renderer’s render function and passing it the scene and the camera

It’s kind of hard to tell that is a 3D cube since we’re viewing it directly down the -Z axis and the cube itself is axis aligned so we’re only seeing a single face.

Source: threejsfundamentals.org

Letting neural networks be weird

Letting neural networks be weird

Donald Trump: Change the name of the National Anthem to be called the “Fiery Gator”

Taco Bell: Offer hot wings and non-perfumed water for all customers

Do not attack the unions! The people of the world: Change the name of the planet to the Planet of the Giants

Dr James Alexander: Make the Power of the Mongoose a Part of the School’s Curriculum

There must be a story behind this one:

Theresa May MP: Stop The Pigeon Rally in Great Britain

Karen’s mother: Please bring your own breadsticks for Karen. If you are an AI yourself and want to sign on to these petitions, you can register your preference for hot wings and non-perfumed water, and/or put Karen’s mom on notice about the breadsticks.

Source: aiweirdness.com

Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics

Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics

The decision paves the way for the largest use of medically important antibiotics in cash crops, and it runs counter to other efforts by the federal government to reduce the use of lifesaving antimicrobial drugs. The use of antibiotics on citrus adds a wrinkle to an intensifying debate about whether the heavy use of antimicrobials in agriculture endangers human health by neutering the drugs’ germ-slaying abilities. Although the research on antibiotic use in crops is not as extensive, scientists say the same dynamic is already playing out with the fungicides that are liberally sprayed on vegetables and flowers across the world.

Source: www.nytimes.com