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First Digital Image Scanned in 1957 Launched Raster Graphics
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The first digital image was scanned #otd in 1957. The late Russell Kirsch’s grayscale image of his newborn son launched the field of raster graphics: https://
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MIT Study Reveals Vision-Language Models Fail with Negation in Medical Imaging
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MIT study reveals that vision-language models, which are often used to analyze medical images to streamline medical diagnosis, can’t handle queries w/negation words like "no" and "not": https://
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Why Programmers Find Cooking Appealing and Rewarding
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Why programmers like cooking, v/
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Lost Alan Turing Papers Including PhD Dissertation Auction
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Lost papers from Alan Turing — including his signed 1938 PhD dissertation and seminal 1936 work "On Computable Numbers" — were nearly shredded. They're now set for auction, expected to sell for as much as £150,000 (roughly $201,380): https://
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Simula 67: First Language With Classes and Abstract Data Types
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In May 1967, two computer scientists presented a paper about Simula 67, the first programming language to include abstract data types and classes: http://
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The Art of Programming: Organizing Complexity
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"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity." — Edsger Dijkstra
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Common Machine Learning Misconceptions Explained
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What’s a common misconception about machine learning that you wish more people understood?
