Tootfinder

Oh! I can render at 1920 square, and then crop to 1080 for each orientation.
That's a 1/4 or so longer render time for each image vs rendering straight into 16x9 but way way faster than doing 16x9 and then 9x16.
🤔 Yes. Good plan I think.

"Rather than addressing food scarcity, genetically modified crops may render African farmers and scientists more, not less, reliant on global markets."
https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/gmos-for-africa

GMOs for Africa?
Rather than addressing food scarcity, genetically modified crops may render African farmers and scientists more, not less, reliant on global markets.

Any idea how to make <details> render as open in CSS (need it for print)?
#webdev #a11y #accessibility

Excellent on Musk: he is now visibly espousing what he always was, far right and racist, and doing so in a way that is now startlingly detached from reality.
Even the NY Times is saying it.

VS CodeでLF, CRLF, CRを表示するにはエクステンションが必要だったのね。今までどこかの設定がおかしくて表示できなかったんだと思い込んでた。
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=medo64.render-crlf

Render Line Endings - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Displays the line ending symbol and optionally extra whitespace when 'Render whitespace' is turned on.

Minor Kitten¹ update: Even if your page routes now return nothing (e.g., null, undefined, empty string), a proper page will be rendered that includes the development-time WebSocket that powers hot reloads.
So the shortest valid page route is now:
```js
export default () => ''
```
And, more importantly, e.g.,
```js
export default () => kitten.html`
<page css>
`
Will also render.
:kitten:💕
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A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

“The act of reading aloud may benefit the reader, too: It may improve memory, cognitive function, focus and mood.”
#Books #Reading

Perception and Control of Surfing in Virtual Reality using a 6-DoF Motion Platform
Premankur Banerjee, Jason Cherin, Jayati Upadhyay, Jason Kutch, Heather Culbertson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15924

Perception and Control of Surfing in Virtual Reality using a 6-DoF Motion Platform
The paper presents a system for simulating surfing in Virtual Reality (VR), emphasizing the recreation of aquatic motions and user-initiated propulsive forces using a 6-Degree of Freedom (DoF) motion platform. We present an algorithmic approach to accurately render surfboard kinematics and interactive paddling dynamics, validated through experimental evaluation with \(N=17\) participants. Results indicate that the system effectively reproduces various acceleration levels, the perception of whic…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02894 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Learning Acceptability Criteria from Good and Bad Decisions: An Inverse Optimization Approach
Conventional inverse optimization inputs a solution and finds the parameters of an optimization model that render a given solution optimal. The literature mostly focuses on inferring the objective function in linear problems when acceptable solutions are provided as input. In this paper, we propose an inverse optimization model that inputs several accepted and rejected solutions and recovers the underlying convex optimization model that can be used to generate such solutions. The novelty of our…

Okay #blender fans: I have a lack of compute problem.
The test version of the five minute topical videos I'm making is looking like it'd take about three to five days to render on my machine.
I need it overnight at least, ideally in an hour.
I intend to spend at last part of the weekend figuring out how to use the compute markets to get spot compute to render the thing frame by frame on hundreds or thousands of computers instead.
Last time I did this kinda thing I was using AWS spot markets and custom software badly taped together with perl scripts.
Surely something better exists now? How can I farm out my rendering? Did any of those crypto projects actually make it possible to borrow a thousand gamer's graphics cards for an hour yet?