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3D map of Easter Island takes you places visitors aren't allowed

Popular Science

Science Archaeology 3D map of Easter Island takes you places visitors aren't allowed One of the world's most isolated islands is open to virtual tourists. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Nestled in the South Pacific Ocean, some 6,000 people live on the most isolated, inhabited island in the world: Rapa Nui. Known to many as Easter Island, a name Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen coined after landing on the island on Easter Sunday 1722, Rapa Nui is roughly double the size of Disney World, or 63.2 square miles. And every year, some 100,000 people visit the remote island to see the famed 13-foot-tall moai statues or Easter Island heads .


Easter Island mystery is SOLVED: Scientists finally pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads 900 years ago

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Stone Age women were buried with as many tools as men

Popular Science

Prehistoric graves show women wielded more than early archeologists gave them credit for. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches of modern Latvia, a young woman died. Afterwards, a group of early humans buried her in an ancient, sacred place along a lakeshore. They carefully lowered her small teenage frame into the ground, gently placing a stone ax, 28 flint flakes, 15 blades, and a stone scraper beside her.


The AI tool behind Thanos made facial animation in 'The Quarry' a snap

Washington Post - Technology News

The Oscar-winning studio has produced visual effects for movies like "Titantic," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and several Marvel films. To create the photorealistic characters seen in "The Quarry," it used the AI facial capture system Masquerade, which was developed to replicate Josh Brolin's likeness for his character Thanos in "Avengers: Infinity War." Masquerade was originally designed to do one thing: to take the performance from a head-mounted camera and translate it into a digital mesh that could then be rendered in a movie. For "The Quarry," the VFX team needed something that could track the movement and facial expressions of actors and create digital characters that could be edited in real time. So they built Masquerade 2.0.


'The Quarry' is a standout slasher that takes just a few wrong turns

Washington Post - Technology News

It's not often I have a lot to say about a game's menu options, but I have to give credit where credit is due: "The Quarry's" UI is an impeccably tailored and delightful nostalgia trip. Slasher films saw their heyday in the late '70s and '80s, and Supermassive Games fully commits to that aesthetic. The starting screen menu mimics a chunky desktop from the early days of computer graphics. Each of the branching paths shaped by the player's choices -- the equivalent of the Butterfly Effect mechanic in "Until Dawn" -- is represented by a VHS tape with a unique cover in the style of vintage horror movie posters. Several have stickers slapped on top: price tags and reminders to "Be kind and rewind!"


Episode 433: Jay Kreps on ksqlDB : Software Engineering Radio

#artificialintelligence

It makes it easier to get correct results and reason about what happens if the machine fails in the middle of processing something. Um, but you do trade off, you know, a little bit of flexibility in, in how you, how you write that versus the low-level read and write. And then one level up from that, uh, I think is, is ksqlDB. So the analogy you can use is, you know, uh, if you've ever used one of these key value interfaces like rocks DB itself, you know, it's kind of very flexible and allowing you to work with data at a low level, um, probably more so than a SQL interface, but it's actually a lot more work for kind of simple stuff, uh, that you might want to do that then using a SQL database.


What a Legal CBR Ontology Should Provide

Ashley, Kevin D. (University of Pittsburgh)

AAAI Conferences

This paper discusses the state of the art in CBR ontologies from the perspective of one developing an improved system for case-based legal reasoning. The paper proposes three specific roles for a CBR ontology and illustrates them in the context of the intended output of the new system: a legal classroom discussion of how to decide a case featuring hypothetical reasoning and abstract analogies. The paper distills the ontological requirements for modeling the example’s case-based arguments and assesses whether current research can meet those requirements. The concrete example helps to focus on and define goals for improving CBR ontologies.