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Whenever I read about Xerox, it reminds me of the story that their scanners would randomly change numbers on prints

https://dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are...


I actually don't expect other scanners to preform differently.

Why? Can you share any examples?

No, I don't have any. It is because it was not so much a bug, but a decision about a tradeoff. They compressed by unifying similar looking glyphs. Sure, these glyphs weren't representing the same character, but they did look similar. It is the kind of error an human could also have made, except humans also know that sums are supposed to match, so they take that into account when reading. Also they have a probability score and when they are unsure they read again or ask. This are all things these printers can't do without doing supervised OCR.

The tested scans did look kind of crappy, so if you care about non altered glyphs maybe don't do a lossy compression on a low resolution scan. So these issue can totally happen with any printer if your resolution is too low, the glyphs are ambigous and you use a too aggressive lossy compression. This also happens with other approaches like vectorization or OCR.


In case you wonder, the Koralm Tunnel has a length of 32.9km

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koralm_Tunnel


"The Koralm Tunnel opened on the 14th of December 2025" ... wikipedia living in the future past :)

Haha, check who updated this article. Only afterwards I realized we're not past the 14th yet...

Already fixed!


> or maybe they did but keep it to themselves.

Yes agree. There is no incentive that intelligence services would communicate their findings, in fact it's the opposite lol


This belongs to a German company called Team Internet AG [1]. Are they really a bad actor? What's the reason to issue so many SSL certificates?

https://www.whois.com/whois/185.53.178.99


> What's the reason to issue so many SSL certificates?

Might be related to https://www.teaminternet.de/en/parkingcrew


Interesting. Personally I find it questionable to squat so many domains for ads. But they pay for it and it is within the legal framework.

Can you provide more details please?

The FFT is still easy to use, and it you want a higher frequency resolution (not higher max frequency), you can zero pad your signal and get higher frequency resolution.


Zero-padding gives you a smoother curve, i.e., more points to look at. But it does not add new peaks. So, if you have two very close frequencies that produce a single peak in the DFT (w/o zero-padding), you would not get two peaks after zero-padding. In the field, were I work, resolution is understood as the minimum distance between two frequencies such that you are able to detect them individually (and not as a single frequency).

Zero-padding helps you to find the true position (frequency) of a peak in the DFT-spectrum. So, your frequency estimates can get better. However, the peaks of a DFT are the summits of hills that are usually much wider than compared to other techniques (like Capon or MUSIC) whose spectra tend to have much narrower hills. Zero-padding does not increase the sharpness of these hills (does not make them narrower). Likewise the DFT tends to be more noisy in the frequency domain compared to other techniques which could lead to false detections (e.g. with a CFAR variant).


Thanks for clarifying :)!

> Q: What if I need matrix dimensions (M, N, K) not found in your configurations? >A: 1. You can find the nearest neighbor configuration (larger than yours) and pad with zeros. 2. Feel free to post your dimensions on GitHub issues. We are happy to release kernels for your configuration.

Lol, this will be potentially much slower than using the general matmul kernel.

However, I like this kind of research because it really exploits specific hardware configurations and makes it measurable faster (unlike some theoretical matmul improvements). Code specialization is cheap, and if it saves in the order of a few %, it quickly reimburses its price, especially for important things like matmul.


Probably you can employ cleaning robots quite well in server rooms.


This is good news.

At EPFL we observe worrying trends that all services are moved to Microsoft (e-mails, cloud).

What happened to universities to host elemental services themselves?

EPFL also partnered up recently with Omnissa Work Space One to strengthen security of IT on campus. Mandatory (American) software which EPFL IT office wants to install on machines...


École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in case anyone else was wondering.


Known for example for the Scala programming language.


which is a university based in Switzerland and falls under those organizations?


I don't think they were challenging you, just expanding the acronym for HN readers who didn't know what it meant.


This is all based on the assumption that we are not able to build spacecrafts with faster speeds.

There was simply no incentive to do so yet. But one day we will build faster spacecrafts and then we are going to overtake it quite quickly.


Yes, but then it's about you. A significant portion of society is using Facebook marketplace and group so it won't die with "grandma"


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