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This is part 1 of a multi-part series on grass rendering. We’ll start by figuring out how realistic grass should look like, and how herbage can be modeled with the tools we have at our disposal in real-time 3D graphics. Then, we’ll look at how to implement different methods of grass rendering in Godot. However, most of the tutorial will not be Godot-specific aside from some node names and syntax. But before getting into any implementation details, we must first understand what grass even looks
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By the 7th Century CE, people in India were playing chaturanga ("four divisions"). The name refers to four types of solider that made up the game—infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots, commanded by a raja—that were modeled on the armies of the time. It was the innovation of these different piece types, which each moved in different ways, that distinguished chaturanga from other war games. The different piece types are the ancestors of the pieces of the modern game, and one of the reasons wh
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Collatz's Ant and similarity of landscapes This is a small development from the previous post, which is mostly focused on trying to understand where the similarities between landscapes come from (and what can be taken as proxies for these). Considering the trajectories respective to the numbers from $n = 10^{20}$ to $n = 10^{20} + 100$, and the corresponding stopping times ($\tau$), maximum euclidean distance hit ($\alpha$) from the origin point $(0, 0)$ where the ant starts, the step at which
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In the springtime, we all shake off the dusty dregs of winter and pull bikes out of the garage or basement. This is also the time when we start looking at new bike gear, and no piece of equipment is more important than a bike helmet. When worn properly, the best bike helmets can reduce serious head injuries by 60 percent. I’m a bit of a helmet nut myself. Not just in that I wear one every time I throw my leg over a bike, but I also love variety. I love matching different helmets with different
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While Community Notes has the potential to be extremely effective, the difficult job of content moderation benefits from a mix of different approaches. As a professor of natural language processing at MBZUAI, I’ve spent most of my career researching disinformation, propaganda, and fake news online. So, one of the first questions I asked myself was: will replacing human factcheckers with crowdsourced Community Notes have negative impacts on users? Wisdom of crowds Community Notes got its start
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Over the last century or more, humanity has been developing an ever-growing number of new chemicals that have never been seen before by Earth's creatures. Many of these chemicals end up being toxic contaminants that we'd love to get rid of, but we struggle to purify them from the environment or break them down once we do. And microbes haven't had much chance to evolve the ability to break them down for us. Over the last few years, however, we've found a growing number of cases where bacteria ha
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Over the last century or more, humanity has been developing an ever-growing list of chemicals that have never been seen by Earth's creatures. Many of these chemicals end up being toxic contaminants that we'd love to get rid of, but we struggle to purify them from the environment or break them down once we do. And microbes haven't had much chance to evolve the ability to break them down for us. Over the last few years, however, we've found a growing number of cases where bacteria have evolved th
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Over the last century or more, humanity has been developing an ever-growing list of chemicals that have never been seen by Earth's creatures. Many of these chemicals end up being toxic contaminants that we'd love to get rid of, but we struggle to purify them from the environment or break them down once we do. And microbes haven't had much chance to evolve the ability to break them down for us. Over the last few years, however, we've found a growing number of cases where bacteria have evolved th
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I received this Cartman 39-piece tool set right after college when I moved into my first apartment, and now, over 10 years later, it’s still with me in my home’s garage. I put this thing and all its contents through the ringer hanging pictures, putting together Ikea furniture, changing light fixtures and even repairing a broken door lock late on a Saturday night. It includes all of the essentials one would need to do what I listed above, and much more, without much hassle: a measuring tape, hamm
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is a features editor at The Verge, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor, business, and policing. Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ. Literary journals might have a stuffy reputation. But since its conception in 1998 by author Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s Quarterly has been anything but, opting instead to be an endlessly mutating delivery system for writing and art. It has been a hardcover book, a paperback, a newspaper. Once it was a bundle of mail; another time, a deck of pla
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Julia Garner (Wolf Man) recently sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give some insight on her take on the mysterious Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: The First Steps. Like many fans with only casual knowledge of the comics and past films from Marvel and Fox, she assumed the Silver Surfer was a male character—but then admitted, “I was just like, ‘Okay, well, I’ll play anything.'” It helped that she was already a “big fan” of Fantastic Four director Matt Shakman. “There was already, in my mind
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Margaret Mitchell is a pioneer when it comes to testing generative AI tools for bias. She founded the Ethical AI team at Google, alongside another well-known researcher, Timnit Gebru, before they were later both fired from the company. She now works as the AI ethics leader at Hugging Face, a software startup focused on open source tools. We spoke about a new dataset she helped create to test how AI models continue perpetuating stereotypes. Unlike most bias-mitigation efforts that prioritize Eng
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TL;DR What appears to be marketing images of the Motorola Razr 2025 have leaked. The images show the phone in a couple of different colors. It looks like the phone will have different types of finishes. There have been plenty of leaks regarding the Motorola Razr Plus 2025 leading up to its announcement, which is expected to happen a couple of days from now. But what about its cheaper sibling, the Motorola Razr 2025? A new leak has revealed never-before-seen images of the more affordable flip-
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When Matija Šošić started working in web development, he was surprised by how hard it was to build a full-stack production-ready web application. One of the biggest hurdles Šošić faced was navigating the fragmented dev tooling landscape. Coding a web application required utilizing different tools for developing the front-end versus the back-end, and so on. “The whole ecosystem is very modular and granulated,” Šošić told TechCrunch. “There’s a lot of these separate sub-systems, which you have t
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Swapping large language models (LLMs) is supposed to be easy, isn’t it? After all, if they all speak “natural language,” switching from GPT-4o to Claude or Gemini should be as simple as changing an API key… right? In reality, each model interprets and responds to prompts differently, making the transition anything but seamless. Enterprise teams who treat model switching as a “plug-and-play” operation often grapple with unexpected regressions: broken outputs, ballooning token costs or shifts in
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A Beard Trimmer is a blessedly straightforward device that can have widely disparate results. Different beards require wildly different visions of the best beard trimmers, depending on hair type and style. And quality matters. Cheap blades don't save money if they die young. The last thing anybody needs in the morning is a dull or underpowered trimmer pushing your hair around instead of cutting it—or even worse, pulling your hair. The shopping-aisle rainbow of trimmers advertising “professional
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Fans of murderous clicking aliens have a lot to look forward to this year, with not one, but two different Predator titles debuting in 2025. Both projects are being helmed by Dan Trachtenberg, who proved his Predator chops directing the excellent Prey, and is now providing a compelling new chapter for the franchise. First up is Predator: Killer of Killers, an animated miniseries that will arrive on Hulu on June 6. That anthology dropped a first look trailer today and it's a taste of classic Pre
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Raising Kids to Have an Analogue Childhood in a Digital World One of the questions I get constantly, both in-person and online, is how we went about arranging our household once we became parents. We put so much thought into it, and it’s clearly of interest to folks, that I thought I’d take a moment over my morning coffee and write a brief high-level overview of how we approached this if only for a quick reference guide in the hope it is helpful to someone. It’s also partly my way of paying it
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In context: The constant improvements AI companies have been making to their models might lead you to think we've finally figured out how large language models (LLMs) work. But nope – LLMs continue to be one of the least understood mass-market technologies ever. But Anthropic is attempting to change that with a new technique called circuit tracing, which has helped the company map out some of the inner workings of its Claude 3.5 Haiku model. Circuit tracing is a relatively new technique that le
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Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers Welcome to Jeans Month on the Strategist, where we’re obsessively vetting denim — from trying on every pair at the Gap to asking dozens of stylish people about their favorite fits. For more, head to our Jeans Month hub. The Strategist recently received a mysterious tip — the tipster had bought a pair of Levi’s jeans from Amazon that felt notably different from (and worse than) a pair that came directly from Levi’s. I’ve heard versions of th
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Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers Welcome to Jeans Month on the Strategist, where we’re obsessively vetting denim — from trying on every pair at the Gap to asking dozens of stylish people about their favorite fits. For more, head to our Jeans Month hub. The Strategist recently received a mysterious tip — the tipster had bought a pair of Levi’s jeans from Amazon that felt notably different from (and worse than) a pair that came directly from Levi’s. I’ve heard versions of th
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In the lead up to the premiere of the newest anime adaptation for Capcom’s hack-and-slash action series, Devil May Cry, Netflix released a music video featuring a new song from famed goth alternative metal band, Evanescence. The song, “Afterlife” was teased ahead of its official release with a cryptic video tease of frontwoman Amy Lee posting a video of herself on X/Twitter doing a countdown before throwing up demon head hand signs. Folks quickly sussed out it had something to do with Devil May
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Binance CEO Richard Teng says the Trump administration has been a "fantastic" reset for the cryptocurrency industry. "It's an extremely different environment that we're operating in," Teng told CNBC on Tuesday. In the span of 16 months, Binance has gone from a political outcast to a possible power broker in Washington. Once the poster child for regulatory defiance – Binance was slapped with a record $4.3 billion settlement with regulators and forced to oust billionaire founder Changpeng "CZ" Z
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Human speech arises courtesy of some significant neural horsepower. Different areas of the brain are involved in determining the meaning that's desired, finding the words to express it, and then converting those words to a specific series of sounds—and all that comes before the correct sequence of nerve impulses is sent to the muscles that produce the final output. Humans are far from alone in the animal kingdom with an impressive range of vocalizations, though. That raises the prospect that we
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Netflix Games did a panel on the inspirations behind big-effort games at Netflix and the shows they’re based on. Jason Altman, head of transmedia at Netflix, led a panel at Netflix Games’ side event at the Game Developers Conference. Bill Jackson of Netflix Games said Squid Game Unleashed was a huge opportunity, but he added, “We knew had to get it right.” He said the show was quite dark and the game team decided they had to diverse from that and lighten it up. “The results are it is a very d
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ZDNET Google's annual health event, "The Check Up," just wrapped, and like most areas these days, a healthy injection of AI is on the way. At the event, Google shared how it's using AI to improve medicine for physicians, researchers, and ordinary people. Also: Google's AI co-scientist is 'test-time scaling' on steroids. What that means for research Several of Google's initiatives are directly for doctors and medical scientists, such as an AI-powered co-researcher that helps develop hypotheses
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Beware tech career advice from old heads If you’re new to tech – say, less than 5 years in the field – you should take career advice from people who’ve been in the industry more than 10-15 years with enormous skepticism. This includes me, and my advice! I try to keep my advice relevant by spending lots of time talking with and listening to people newer to the industry, and applying their lessons-learned rather than my own. But, yeah, you should probably take my advice with skepticism, too. Th
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