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The Battle for Attention

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On a subway train not long ago, I had the familiar, unsettling experience of standing behind...
On a subway train not long ago, I had the familiar, unsettling experience of standing behind a fellow-passenger and watching everything that she was doing on her phone. It was a crowded car, rush hour, with the dim but unwarm lighting of the oldest New York City trains. The stranger’s phone was bright, and as I look...

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Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation

newyorker.com

Alex Eisler, a sophomore at Brown University who studies applied math and computer science, regularly uses...
Alex Eisler, a sophomore at Brown University who studies applied math and computer science, regularly uses fake phone numbers and e-mail addresses to make reservations. When he calls Polo Bar, he told me, “Sometimes they recognize my voice, so I have to do different accents. I have to act like a girl sometimes.” He ...

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Are Flying Cars Here?

newyorker.com

At Wisk’s offices, Schrinner told me that air taxis could one day connect remote Indigenous communities...
At Wisk’s offices, Schrinner told me that air taxis could one day connect remote Indigenous communities to urban hospitals, or sightseers to the Bay Islands. “It’s only eighty kilometres from Brisbane to the Gold Coast,” he said. “It should only take an hour by car, but on a busy weekend it can take two.” Out of cur...

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How Chinese Students Experience America

newyorker.com

I asked whether they would serve in the Chinese military if there were a war.“They wouldn’t...
I asked whether they would serve in the Chinese military if there were a war.“They wouldn’t ask people like us to fight,” one boy said. He explained that, in a war, he wouldn’t return home if his country was the aggressor. “If China fires the first shot, then I will stay in America,” he said.I asked why.“Because I d...

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Recreating a 90s Screen Saver (Flying Toasters) for the Vision Pro

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I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week...
I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week break between jobs. I wanted to explore its potential and learn some new skills. My day job primarily involves low-level firmware; I hadn’t built a user-facing app in a while–my last iOS app experience was back in high school in 2011!...

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Generating music in the waveform domain (2020)

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In November last year, I co-presented a tutorial on waveform-based music processing with deep learning with...
In November last year, I co-presented a tutorial on waveform-based music processing with deep learning with Jordi Pons and Jongpil Lee at ISMIR 2019. Jongpil and Jordi talked about music classification and source separation respectively, and I presented the last part of the tutorial, on music generation in the wavef...

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Hands on with a Science Fair 160-1 electronic projects kit

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This particular IC is not too interesting in modern times, it is fairly obscure, and many...
This particular IC is not too interesting in modern times, it is fairly obscure, and many other amplifiers are available instead. Can the IC in these circuits replaced with opamps in a closed loop configuration?With a non-inverting opamp: Vout = Vin*(1 + Rf/Rg).Opamp chips: 741 (popular but there is newer), LM324N q...

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Latam Airlines SYD to AKL flight: 50 people treated after mid-air incident

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Smartphone screens are about to become speakers

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Today’s mobile-device speakers and haptic generators have several problems. The first is with the components themselves....
Today’s mobile-device speakers and haptic generators have several problems. The first is with the components themselves. The speakers in your smartphone and the system that gives your finger feedback when you touch a virtual button may be relatively small, but they are still big enough to limit how thin our mobile d...

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The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam

newyorker.com

As the general manager of the Jay Peak ski resort, Bill Stenger rose most days around...
As the general manager of the Jay Peak ski resort, Bill Stenger rose most days around 6 A.M. and arrived at the slopes before seven. He’d check in with his head snowmaker and the ski-patrol staff, visit the two hotels on the property, and chat with the maintenance workers, the lift operators, the food-and-beverage m...

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The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires

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The provincial government of Alberta defines a “wildfire of note” as a blaze that could “pose...
The provincial government of Alberta defines a “wildfire of note” as a blaze that could “pose a threat to public safety, communities or critical infrastructure.” Last year, Alberta’s first wildfire of note broke out unusually early, on April 30th, near the tiny town of Entwistle, about sixty-five miles west of Edmon...

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A Teen's Fatal Plunge into the London Underworld

newyorker.com

Sharma was calling from Apartment 504. If he’d stepped out onto the balcony, or just looked...
Sharma was calling from Apartment 504. If he’d stepped out onto the balcony, or just looked out a window, he likely would have seen the dead body down below. Perhaps he called Nunes to find out whether the police had drawn a connection between the body and the building. Or perhaps Sharma believed that, through some ...

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WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal

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Restoring audio from the B-58 "Hustler" Voice Warning System

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Someone uploaded the B-58 voice warning system audio to the Internet Archive a while back. I've...
Someone uploaded the B-58 voice warning system audio to the Internet Archive a while back. I've always had an interest in military aviation, so this is quite interesting to me. The uploader has exactly one contribution with no information about who they are. There are 15 audio clips. One of which is actually a voice...

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Helio: Libre Music Composition Software

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The Battle for Attention

Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation

Are Flying Cars Here?

How Chinese Students Experience America

Recreating a 90s Screen Saver (Flying Toasters) for the Vision Pro

Generating music in the waveform domain (2020)

Hands on with a Science Fair 160-1 electronic projects kit

Latam Airlines SYD to AKL flight: 50 people treated after mid-air incident

Smartphone screens are about to become speakers

The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam

The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires

A Teen's Fatal Plunge into the London Underworld

WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal

Restoring audio from the B-58 "Hustler" Voice Warning System

Helio: Libre Music Composition Software