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@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-02 19:59:02

😾 Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
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Recreating the Canon Cat document interface - Little Lab
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-30 11:48:22

🖨️ Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner
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Old ad showing at top an old Macintosh classic computer next to a printer and a color photo with a black and white version of the photo on the screen. Ad copy reads: "Feed your Mac. Introducing ThunderScan..."
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-18 14:32:26

👾 Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU
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Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU
Sorry, Doc Brown: we still needed roads in 1985. That meant paper atlases and misfolded roadmaps and a lot of stereotypical male anxiety a...

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-18 01:00:32

💔 Are Foundation Models Ready for Industrial Defect Recognition? A Reality Check on Real-World Data
#computing

Are Foundation Models Ready for Industrial Defect Recognition? A Reality Check on Real-World Data
Foundation Models (FMs) have shown impressive performance on various text and image processing tasks. They can generalize across domains and datasets in a zero-shot setting. This could make them suitable for automated quality inspection during series manufacturing, where various types of images are being evaluated for many different products. Replacing tedious labeling tasks with a simple text prompt to describe anomalies and utilizing the same models across many products would save significant…