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Cake day: February 13th, 2021

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  • As with all things, there are extremely polarized opinions about American racism against the Chinese and Muslims, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

    exactly. so if i’m correct, this is former singaporean foreign minster george yeo presenting us with an example of dialectics, which is the analytical process by which we find the truth that lies somewhere in the middle.

    thesis: americans don’t love the chinese

    antithesis: americans also don’t love muslims

    synthesis: and yet americans truly love chinese muslims a lot

    this is an interesting example because a lot of people intuitively think the resulting synthesis would be “americans must actually hate chinese muslims a lot” and yet we can observe how in reality that’s not the case, and rather chinese muslims become transformed into the only chinese and the only muslims that americans love. this is also an example of intersectionalism.



  • yeah, this is the really relevant bit:

    Spatial scanning imaging spectrometers are typically limited in their imaging speed due to the use of mechanical scanning, allowing for HSI mostly in stationary scenes. If there is a relative displacement between the spatial scanning imaging spectrometer and the object in the imaging process, adverse effects such as artifacts and stretching will appear in the acquired images. We found that these effects arise from the blending of scene information from multiple moments within one measurement (Fig. 1C). Each spectrum in the scanned HSI measurement corresponds to a specific acquisition moment. We can reconstruct a complete HSI video of all acquisition moments by establishing the inverse process of the acquisition. Assuming that no variation occurs in the spectral properties of the scene materials or the illumination during the imaging process, this inverse process is to find the spatial positions corresponding to all spectra in the scanned HSI measurement at all moments. Therefore, the reconstruction requires the incorporation of scene motion information, which can be achieved by introducing a common video-rate RGB camera aligned with the scanning-based imaging spectrometer (Fig. 1A, B).

    hyperspectral imaging isn’t new, the breakthrough is in combining it with motion video in a way that the information you’re getting with the spectral scan gets assigned correctly to objects within a moving scene, which is really interesting. sounds like it partly depends on new hardware:

    https://english.bit.edu.cn/2024-11/29/c_1049353.htm

    The team has overcome multiple bottlenecks and created an on-chip spectral multiplexing sensing architecture, which subverts traditional geometric beam splitting architecture, narrowband measurement mechanism, and physical measurement output mode. It has achieved computational spectral imaging with on-chip broadband differentiation control, completed the difficult process from blank to formed, and opened up new fields of on-chip spectral research.


  • this is the highest scoring hand in the game. you’re trying to add up combinations of cards to 15, with face cards all equal 10. each unique combination of cards that adds up to 15 is worth 2 points. you get to use the face up card on top of the deck, as well, so @mechwarrior2@hexbear.net has 16 points showing just from that. pairs are also worth 2 points each, so that’s another 12 points, and having the jack of the same suit as the card on top of the deck is worth another point for no reason. 29 points in all, and the game is played until 121, so it’s a large jump.














  • dwarf fortress is still kinda unplayble at times without dfhack scripts. spend too much time down in the caverns and the nature aggro system kicks in and pretty soon there’s hundreds of invisible enemies dragging down your fps to a painfully slow crawl because the game just has to keep track of their sightlines, a calculation that also inevitably grows more complicated as the map fills up with trees.

    also the farming system is a bit silly, you only need like half a hectare of land to feed a small city.