MarkdownSite is a platform for hosting websites. People who want their websites hosted enter a git url for their repository. MarkdownSite downloads their repo and turns anything in public/ into a static website hosted at a random subdomain. Anything MarkdownSite finds in site/ that is an .md file will be rendered as HTML. Once MarkdownSiteContinue reading “MarkdownSite: Create a website from a git repo in one click”
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Introduction to K-Means Clustering
With massive data volumes growing at exponential rates, we need to find scalable methods to process them and find insights. The world of data entered the Zettabyte era several years ago. What’s a Zettabyte? Well, it is enough storage for 30 billion 4K movies, or 60 billion video games, or 7.5 trillion MP3 songs. Today,Continue reading “Introduction to K-Means Clustering”
NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
We present a novel framework named NeuralRecon for real-time 3D scene reconstruction from a monocular video. Unlike previous methods that estimate single-view depth maps separately on each key-frame and fuse them later, we propose to directly reconstruct local surfaces represented as sparse TSDF volumes for each video fragment sequentially by a neural network. A learning-basedContinue reading “NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video”
Writing a device driver for Unix V6
In this post we will learn the useful skill of writing a device driver for Unix V6 (released in 1975) and run it on an emulator. The implemented device is fairly trivial: it will open a message box on the host OS. The goal is that we can execute the following command:echo “Hello world” >Continue reading “Writing a device driver for Unix V6”
ThinkComposer: Create advanced Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Flowcharts, Models and Diagrams
As a professional, student or creative person, you probably work analyzing, creating and exposing entities with complex attributes, relationships and dependencies; struggling to make effective solutions on time, needing to explain and convince an audience; and facing diverse perspectives on different problems. With ThinkComposer you can apply the power of comprehensive visual documents to getContinue reading “ThinkComposer: Create advanced Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Flowcharts, Models and Diagrams”
How Podman can transfer container images without a registry
The new ‘podman image scp’ command makes it easier to transfer container images between users on the same system or machines over the network. Read more…
How to design better APIs
15 language-agnostic, actionable tips on REST API design. APIs are awesome, but they’re also extremely hard to design. When creating an API from scratch, you need to get many details right. From basic security considerations to using the right HTTP methods, implementing authentication, deciding which requests and responses you should accept and return, … theContinue reading “How to design better APIs”
Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer
A demo of modular electronics with Pockit as of early 2022, after several upgrades in the recent months based on everyone’s feedback. Hope you guys enjoy it!
Amp: The live radio app from Amazon
Amp is launching in limited-access U.S. beta for iOS. Learn how it will enable creators to DJ their own shows for free, with tens of millions of licensed songs. Amazon just released the limited-access beta version of Amp, a new app that will give you a way to DJ your own live radio shows. CreatorsContinue reading “Amp: The live radio app from Amazon”
Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference
Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, or more recently with external fields (electric or magnetic fields, or laser beams). Read more…
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