Facebook includes weird messages inside Oculus Touch controllers – Business InsiderFacebook said it accidentally hid bizarre and “inappropriate” messages inside “tens of thousands” of virtual-reality controllers, including “Big Brother is Watching” and “The Masons Were Here.” […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-31
Homemade Low Carb Crunch Protein Bars (Keto, Vegan, Paleo) Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus) [Remix] – YouTubeA rare musical inclusion -Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus remix Morgan Herlocker on Twitter: “Became aware of the first major open scooter feed this morning. 20 minutes in and I am […]
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Photography #166
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-24
Please TRU Write With Me, I’m All Shiny And New – CogDogBlogUntil now, the editor did not automatically embed media from sites like YouTube, vimeo, twitter, SoundCloud from a plain URL — the user had to trust it would happen. MathigonAn interactive math resource worth looking at. h/t Clint Lalonde Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-17
TextWorld – Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft TextWorld is an open-source, extensible engine that both generates and simulates text games. You can use it to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn skills such as language understanding and grounding, combined with sequential decision making. A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K | Ars […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-10
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs – The AtlanticThey’ll clone a teacher’s shared Google document, then chat in the comments, so it appears to the casual viewer that they’re just making notes on the lesson plan. If a teacher approaches to take a closer look, they can click the Resolve button, and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-03
Scammed at 40,000 Feet: Opaque Market Costs the Jet-Setting Rich – Bloomberg ” . . . according to My Sky, a company whose software helps scrutinize and manage private-jet costs” mattomildenberger on Twitter: “Something I’ve been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons. Bear with me for a small thread on why our […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-02-24
Man who went viral for buying $540 of Girl Scout cookies arrested in DEA drug bust – CNN//the drug bust thing seems secondary to this line . . . . A picture of McGowan posing with the two girls was posted on Facebook by the girls’ cookie manager and shared thousands of times. The Hobbit […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-02-17
DEAR – Community ProjectThe solution involves the use of an AWS DeepLens device to recognize faces using a local infrence and send only the clips of the faces to S3. A lambda monitoring the S3 bucket will then call Rekognition to get the emotions for each face. The data is then fed to DynamoDB for […]