Use https://caniuse.com/ for compatibility on a large amount of CSS/JS items!
A site devoted mostly to everything related to Information Technology under the sun - among other things.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Minifying JS & CSS Code
From Natalia Putik, who is a reader of this Blog:
https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/jscssminifier/
This tool allows you to minify your JS & CSS code quickly and easily (and it's completely free too!)"
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
COVID-19: News of Omicron
Structural and functional characterizations of infectivity and immune evasion of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron
Highlights:
• Omicron spike stably maintains an active conformation for receptor recognition
• Improved stability of Omicron enhances attachment but compromises viral fusion
• Mutations perturb the conformation of antigenic sites recognized by most antibodies
• Structurally restrained regions of RBM can be targets for COVID-19 countermeasures
Please see here:
COVID-19: Vaccine News
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induces immunological T cell memory able to cross-recognize variants from Alpha to Omicron -
Highlights
•T cells of vaccinees recognize SARS-CoV-2 variants, including Omicron
•RBD memory B cells’ recognition of Omicron is reduced
•A median of 11 CD4 and 10 CD8 spike epitopes are recognized in vaccinees
•Average preservation > 80% for Omicron at the epitope level
Please see here:
Robot Painting
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‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da
becomes first robot to paint like an artist | Robots | The Guardian AI algorithms prompt
robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting Devised
in Oxford by Aidan Meller, Ai-Da was created over two years by a team of
programmers, roboticists ... |
News of Charging Stations Hacking
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-61006816
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Isle of Wight: Council's
electric vehicle chargers hacked to show porn site - BBC News Isle of Wight
Council said staff were visiting the charge points to cover up the "inappropriate"
website showing on the screen Electric vehicle charging points in a council's
car parks have been ... |
Friday, March 11, 2022
Monday, March 7, 2022
Processing Sketchbook & Language
Please take a look at Welcome to Processing! / Processing.org - a flexible software sketchbook and an object-oriented language (with support for inheritance) for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.
A useful book with step-by-step tutorials from elementary operations to genetic algorithms and neural nets is this: The Nature of Code
The significance of this environment is that it is for artists - it is geared towards the development of visual images. It is not a general purpose environment for solving generic dry and constipating problems.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
News of AI - Robot Dogs
From Grauniad of the UK
It will be even better
when we have robot policemen riding robot police horses patrolling the streets
of our cities. Now, that's going to make things so much better.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/robot-dogs-us-mexico-border-surveillance-technology
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The border has long
been a testing ground for a range of emerging surveillance and policing
technologies, which activists have argued make the space even more dangerous
to migrants, all in the ... |
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Friday, February 11, 2022
GIZMAG: Sweat-analyzing Smartwatch
"I get other people to sweat on my behalf: members of staff, that kind of thing... So, you could say I delegate the sweating to those who are good at it. Some people are, somehow, born with an ability to sweat for it."
I must say, it wouldn't be good for The Duke of York, A.K.A. Randy Andy. The Duke
would probably counter that he would have strictly no use for the smartwatch in
question, since he does not sweat - and has never sweated.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/sweat-cortisol-smartwatch-stress/
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Sweat-analyzing smartwatch
could warn wearers of elevated stress It's important for
people with conditions such as depression and anxiety to know when they're
becoming stressed, so they can initiate coping strategies. An experimental
new smartwatch could ... newatlas.com |
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Monday, January 3, 2022
Mamba: A Package Manager for Python
If you use conda to manage your packages, you might be interested in switching to mamba (Welcome to Mamba’s documentation! — documentation). It can be installed by running: conda install mamba -y
I noticed that the times that take to create an environment are reduced a lot just by changing to mamba. Also helped me reducing my TFS pipeline Docker build to go from over 20 minutes to approximately 4 minutes.
More discussion here:
Conda or Mamba for production? | EPI2ME Labs Blog
News of Alexa: Attempted Murder
Alexa
tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny - BBC News
Amazon has updated its
Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to
touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The suggestion came after
the girl asked Alexa for a ...
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