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Monday, 02Sep2019 Filed in: Site news
Utility belt part 1
Speaking of keys - Utility Belt Part 2
Utility Belt Part 3 (Final Part)
TechTool Protoge
Best Utility Knife
Pocket Briefcase
Remembering the Travel Tinker Trouble Kit
Edge of utility
Things you might have to teach your client - part two
Things you might have to teach your client
It takes a Heart to make a Home
Cram It In!
Desk
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Belkin QUADRA 4-in-1 PDA Stylus
Saturday, 31Aug2019 Filed in: Tools
“Adam Savage's New Leatherworking Toolbox!”
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Tools
“Adam shares his latest shop upgrade and build: a leatherworking station and storage box for all his leather-related tools! This beautiful wooden box was made in the process of working on his Star-Lord costume belt, and replaces a previous acrylic toolbox. Adam guides us through this toolbox's form factor and its influences.”
Read More...glass vials with screw caps
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Labware
white cap quarter ounce bottles
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Labware
craft wire
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Labware
hanging vials
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Labware
barbershop bottle
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Labware
monkey dishes
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Labware
filer paper
Wednesday, 28Aug2019 Filed in: Labware
Picture information
Sunday, 11Aug2019 Filed in: Organize & Life Hacks
“ How did NASA Steer the Saturn V?- Smarter Every Day 223”
Thursday, 08Aug2019 Filed in: Design & Technology
Nonconsensual technology
Sunday, 14Jul2019 Filed in: Technology
“PiVPN : How to Run a VPN Server on a $35 Raspberry Pi!”
Saturday, 29Jun2019 Filed in: Technology & Tools
“A $35 Raspberry Pi can work as a very effective VPN server. You'll gain access to your local network resources remotely and have a secure connection to the Internet.”
Read More...“I tried Pi-Hole for the first time... (DNS level Ad Blocker)”
Friday, 28Jun2019 Filed in: Technology & Tools
“Google wants to wage war against Chrome users in a potential new update. An update that can disable them all together.... "Out of Safety". So I can either switch over to Firefox again or explore Pi Hole as a Network/DNS level Sinkhole/Ad blocker.”
Read More...“Apollo AGC Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon”
Friday, 28Jun2019 Filed in: Technology & Tools
“We embark on the restoration of a very rare and historically significant machine: the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC. It was the revolutionary MIT-designed computer aboard Apollo that brought man on the Moon (and back!). Mike Stewart, space engineer extraordinaire and living AGC encyclopedia, spearheads this restoration effort. In this first episode, we setup a makeshift lab in his hotel room, somewhere in Houston. The computer belongs to a delightful private collector, Jimmie Loocke, who has generously allowed us to dive in the guts of his precious machine, with the hope of restoring it to full functionality by July 2019, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.”
Read More...“Thorium - The Future of Energy?”
“There's been a lot of talk about Thorium lately, but what's it all about? Will it be the future of energy?”
Read More...Privacy
This means that there is a huge market out there for privacy. That's why VPN services are doing so well. And that is why Apple is working to make their products more secure.
Read More...“How Machines Learn”
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: Technology
“Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models”
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: Technology
“We believe that telepresence technologies in AR, VR and other media are to transform the world in the not-so-distant future. Shifting a part of human life-like communication to the virtual and augmented worlds will have several positive effects. It will lead to a reduction in long-distance travel and short-distance commute. It will democratize education, and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. It will distribute jobs more fairly and uniformly around the World. It will better connect relatives and friends separated by distance. To achieve all these effects, we need to make human communication in AR and VR as realistic and compelling as possible, and the creation of photorealistic avatars is one (small) step towards this future. In other words, in future telepresence systems, people will need to be represented by the realistic semblances of themselves, and creating such avatars should be easy for the users. This application and scientific curiosity is what drives the research in our group, including the project presented in this video.
We realize that our technology can have a negative use for the so-called “deepfake” videos. However, it is important to realize, that Hollywood has been making fake videos (aka “special effects”) for a century, and deep networks with similar capabilities have been available for the past several years (see links in the paper). Our work (and quite a few parallel works) will lead to the democratization of the certain special effects technologies. And the democratization of the technologies has always had negative effects. Democratizing sound editing tools lead to the rise of pranksters and fake audios, democratizing video recording lead to the appearance of footage taken without consent. In each of the past cases, the net effect of democratization on the World has been positive, and mechanisms for stemming the negative effects have been developed. We believe that the case of neural avatar technology will be no different. Our belief is supported by the ongoing development of tools for fake video detection and face spoof detection alongside with the ongoing shift for privacy and data security in major IT companies. ”
Read More...“Adam Savage's Computer History Collection!”
Friday, 10May2019 Filed in: Tools & Technology