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Today's quotable quote: Friedrich von Schiller: Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

This day in history: 26 March 2023: Bangladesh Liberation War Begins (1971). The Bangladesh Liberation War was fought between West Pakistan and East Pakistan—now Pakistan and Bangladesh, respectively. It began as an uprising in East Pakistan led by a guerilla force called the Mukti Bahini. Indian support bolstered the Bangladeshi rebellion and led to a separate but simultaneous war between India and Pakistan. Eventually, West Pakistan's forces were defeated and East Pakistan gained its independence, becoming the new nation of Bangladesh.


UNILAD Tech

Disney build some of the most incredible robots 🤖🤯, 11 March 2023

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Disney build some of the most incredible robots 🤖🤯




SDTV Spotter Dedicated TV

A380 landing sideways! Epic crosswind landings from this Etihad pilot , best piloting skills we have ever caught on film The windiest ever landing of an A380 we have seen! 3 year anniversary of this Registration: A6-APJ Current status Stored by Etihad, 14 February 2023

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A380 landing sideways! Epic crosswind landings from this Etihad pilot , best piloting skills we have ever caught on film The windiest ever landing of an A380 we have seen! 3 year anniversary of this Registration: A6-APJ Current status Stored by Etihad


Historic Photographs

A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958. (Photo by Berenice Abbott). Vintage computer ads that show how far we’ve progressed: https://bit.ly/3SjOuhk, 14 February 2023

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A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958. (Photo by Berenice Abbott). Vintage computer ads that show how far we’ve progressed: https://bit.ly/3SjOuhk


Goodwill Librarian

I'm sorry. I can't make it to your party. I've got the reading rage!, 09 February 2023

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I'm sorry. I can't make it to your party. I've got the reading rage!


Time Travellers

Hunter Brothers doing some mid-air mechanical checkups during their 23-day-long flight without landing in 1930. Over the 23 days, food and fuel were delivered to them periodically by another aeroplane., 02 February 2023

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Hunter Brothers doing some mid-air mechanical checkups during their 23-day-long flight without landing in 1930. Over the 23 days, food and fuel were delivered to them periodically by another aeroplane.



Historic Photographs

England 1932: The Dynasphere was a monowheel vehicle powered by an electric or petrol motor. The entire outer cylinder rotated and moved the vehicle while the driver and the motor were stationary inside. The weight of the motor and driver gave it a low center of gravity. More photos: http://bit.ly/3tyRi0j, 24 January 2023

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England 1932: The Dynasphere was a monowheel vehicle powered by an electric or petrol motor. The entire outer cylinder rotated and moved the vehicle while the driver and the motor were stationary inside. The weight of the motor and driver gave it a low center of gravity. More photos: http://bit.ly/3tyRi0j






History in Color

The 3rd MOST LIKED Instagram Post of 2022: Double leg amputee railway signalman, James Wide, photographed working alongside his pet and assistant, Jack Baboon, in Cape Town during the 1880s. James Wide purchased a chacma baboon in 1881 and trained him to push his wheelchair and operate the railway signals under supervision. Credit: color_byangelina on Instagram In the lead-up to the new year, every day we are sharing the colorizations that received the most likes on the HistoryColored Instagram page in 2022. Sitting 3rd in the top 15 most popular colorized photos of 2022 is this work by Angelina Karpunina, which received over 36 thousand likes in the year. Click the Link Below to see the list of the most liked HistoryColored Instagram Posts of 2022, which will be updated daily as the photos are revealed! ⁠ https://historycolored.com/photos/9883/top-15-most-popular-colorized-photos-of-2022-instagram-edition/, 15 December 2022

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The 3rd MOST LIKED Instagram Post of 2022: Double leg amputee railway signalman, James Wide, photographed working alongside his pet and assistant, Jack Baboon, in Cape Town during the 1880s. James Wide purchased a chacma baboon in 1881 and trained him to push his wheelchair and operate the railway signals under supervision. Credit: color_byangelina on Instagram In the lead-up to the new year, every day we are sharing the colorizations that received the most likes on the HistoryColored Instagram page in 2022. Sitting 3rd in the top 15 most popular colorized photos of 2022 is this work by Angelina Karpunina, which received over 36 thousand likes in the year. Click the Link Below to see the list of the most liked HistoryColored Instagram Posts of 2022, which will be updated daily as the photos are revealed! ⁠ https://historycolored.com/photos/9883/top-15-most-popular-colorized-photos-of-2022-instagram-edition/


PlaneHistoria

The Ball Turret on a B-17 Bomber circa 1943. The brave Gunners operating this small claustrophobic contraption had to endure sub-zero temperatures, hours spent breathing through an oxygen mask and cramping in their muscles from sitting hunched in a fetal position for long periods., 24 November 2022

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The Ball Turret on a B-17 Bomber circa 1943. The brave Gunners operating this small claustrophobic contraption had to endure sub-zero temperatures, hours spent breathing through an oxygen mask and cramping in their muscles from sitting hunched in a fetal position for long periods.


What is a red-lipped batfish?

sciencefocus.com, 23 November 2022

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Pucker up for this poor swimming, bottom dwelling, big mouthed, waddling fish.


Doctor Anna's Imaginarium

//If you’ve seen manatees up close and observed them for a while, no doubt you’ve seen some bubbles nearby. Sea cows often release gas as a part of their daily routine. But, from a scientific standpoint, there is research that shows manatees can control their buoyancy from farting. They use their digestive tract and the unmistakable flatulence they exhibit as a way to rise and sink in the water. But how does a fart make a manatee go up and down? Well, the sea cow can “hold it in” and that gas makes them a little lighter helping them to float near the surface. Or the manatee can “let it rip” releasing some gas and sink a little lower in the water. This releasing of gas isn’t like a jetpack on their back, zooming them to the bottom. But it does help them to slowly sink lower towards the bottom.// ... But they also have specialized lungs .. Read more: https://naplesmanateetours.com/how-do-manatees-control-their-buoyancy/, 23 November 2022

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//If you’ve seen manatees up close and observed them for a while, no doubt you’ve seen some bubbles nearby. Sea cows often release gas as a part of their daily routine. But, from a scientific standpoint, there is research that shows manatees can control their buoyancy from farting. They use their digestive tract and the unmistakable flatulence they exhibit as a way to rise and sink in the water. But how does a fart make a manatee go up and down? Well, the sea cow can “hold it in” and that gas makes them a little lighter helping them to float near the surface. Or the manatee can “let it rip” releasing some gas and sink a little lower in the water. This releasing of gas isn’t like a jetpack on their back, zooming them to the bottom. But it does help them to slowly sink lower towards the bottom.// ... But they also have specialized lungs .. Read more: https://naplesmanateetours.com/how-do-manatees-control-their-buoyancy/

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In the news

Robotic beehive provides vital life support to chilly honeybees: While honeybees are famously difficult to study, altering natural behaviors if any outside influences are sensed, they’re also incredibly susceptible to colony collapse due to the cold. Posted on 24 March 2023.

Interview: Hyperreal is working on digital celebrities you can talk to: Remington Scott's CV in Hollywood movies is extraordinary, placing him at the bleeding edge of motion capture in some of the most transformative projects in movie history. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt: This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is a statement about a particular presence in the comment sections that most of you are surely familiar with. Posted on 26 March 2023.


Cape Town weather

5 day forecast

  • Mon 27: scattered clouds

    14 ° - 23 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 28 %
  • Tue 28: overcast clouds

    17 ° - 20 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Wed 29: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 89 %
  • Thu 30: light rain

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 50 %
  • Fri 31: sky is clear

    15 ° - 20 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 0 %

See next two weeks

News (continued)

TikTok CEO Faces Off With Congress As Potential Nationwide Ban Looms: Shou Zi Chew plans to tell House lawmakers that TikTok prioritizes the safety of its young users and deny allegations that the app is a national security risk. Posted on 23 March 2023.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2 Cut Scene Made in Unreal Engine 5 Shows Tommy Vercetti Returning: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2 could be something Rockstar is working on, but TeaserPlay didn’t want to wait for an official announcement. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier:  In this article, we explore the top 10 AI tools that are driving innovation and efficiency in various industries. Posted on 25 January 2023.

Space, The Boring Frontier: Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun. Posted on 28 December 2021.

AI expert Meredith Broussard: ‘Racism, sexism and ableism are systemic problems’: The journalist and academic says that the bias encoded in artificial intelligence systems can’t be fixed with better data alone – the change has to be societalMeredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI). Posted on 26 March 2023.

Patients given aripiprazole ‘should be told of gambling addiction risks’: Expert urges greater monitoring of side-effect of drug used to treat depression, psychosis and schizophreniaPatients who are prescribed a common antipsychotic used to treat depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia need to be told there is a risk they could develop a gambling addiction, an expert has warned. Posted on 26 March 2023.

How to make a quick flowchart with Apple Freeform: Need to visualize a process? Here's how to do it in less than ten minutes using Apple Freeform. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Have we found the 'animal origin' of Covid?: Genetic data released by China three years after it was gathered has provided 'the best evidence' of how the pandemic started, scientists say. Posted on 25 March 2023.

To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health: The field of public health has transformed medicine, yet failed the most vulnerable. Posted on 26 March 2023.

AI deepfakes could advance misinformation in the run up to the 2024 election: New artificial intelligence tools make it cheap, easy and fast to make convincing fake video, audio and text. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Planets on parade: 5 will be lined up in night sky this week: Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online: The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to identify the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia: The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not “bring anything useful for society” despite the company’s powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector. Posted on 26 March 2023.

In a Roman Tomb, ‘Dead Nails’ Reveal an Occult Practice: Forty-one bent or twisted iron nails, unearthed from a second-century imperial burial site, were meant to keep the deceased in their place. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Why the COVID-19 death rate varies dramatically across the US: NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Thomas Bollyky, the co-author of a new report examining why COVID-19 death rates varied dramatically across the U. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Spinoza: Spinoza appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Bill Gates Predicts 'The Age of AI Has Begun': Bill Gates calls the invention of AI "as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone," predicting "Entire industries will reorient around it" in an essay titled "The AI Age has Begun. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Georgia leads toward a nuclear future with its first operating reactor: Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday. Posted on 07 March 2023.

How long can you go without sleep?: And what can happen to your body if you stay awake way past your bedtime?. Posted on 26 March 2023.

Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy: On a foggy morning in early February last year, dozens of journalists from around the world gathered outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Posted on 09 February 2022.


Some of the tech in my workday

Best programming language?

The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.

The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.

w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.

While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.


Longer term weather forecast

Cape Town weather

  • Mon 27: scattered clouds

    14 ° - 23 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 28 %
  • Tue 28: overcast clouds

    17 ° - 20 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Wed 29: overcast clouds

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 89 %
  • Thu 30: light rain

    16 ° - 18 ° Wind 8 km/h / Clouds 50 %
  • Fri 31: sky is clear

    15 ° - 20 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 0 %
  • Sat 01: broken clouds

    15 ° - 23 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 79 %
  • Sun 02: overcast clouds

    17 ° - 20 ° Wind 4 km/h / Clouds 91 %
  • Mon 03: light rain

    16 ° - 19 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 85 %
  • Tue 04: overcast clouds

    15 ° - 20 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 91 %
  • Wed 05: sky is clear

    17 ° - 25 ° Wind 6 km/h / Clouds 7 %
  • Thu 06: scattered clouds

    18 ° - 24 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 41 %
  • Fri 07: sky is clear

    18 ° - 23 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 5 %
  • Sat 08: few clouds

    17 ° - 21 ° Wind 7 km/h / Clouds 11 %
  • Sun 09: overcast clouds

    17 ° - 21 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 99 %
  • Mon 10: overcast clouds

    17 ° - 23 ° Wind 3 km/h / Clouds 100 %
  • Tue 11: overcast clouds

    17 ° - 20 ° Wind 5 km/h / Clouds 100 %