Russia’s Last Independent TV Channel Covers the Invasion of Ukrainenewyorker.com45 points·by meseznik·4 anni fa·0 comments
Learning to Predict Where Humans Look [pdf]people.csail.mit.edu2 points·by meseznik·10 anni fa·1 comments
meseznik·8 anni fa·discussHe wrote his own tools in Python to achieve this (repo: https://github.com/3b1b/manim).FAQ: http://www.3blue1brown.com/about/
meseznik·8 anni fa·discussI've been using this chrome extension (made by Google) for quite some time. Surprised it's not more popular:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
meseznik·9 anni fa·discussApparently there are 100 of these per 11-year solar cycle.Seems that there are much more than 100 flares each cycle: https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessidata/dbase/hessi_flare_l...It also seems that flares above X2.2 are quite rare. There have been only 10 of those since 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_24#EventsThe latest flare, measured at X9.3 is VERY rare: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/top-50-so...I wouldn't downplay this
meseznik·9 anni fa·discussI recently stumbled upon this lecture, definitely recommended it (Sea Peoples introduced @ 08:20):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4 -1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
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