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Gaussian splatting model of a collapsed building taken from drone footage. 3D Gaussian splatting is a technique used in the field of real-time radiance field rendering. [3] It enables the creation of high-quality real-time novel-view scenes by combining multiple photos or videos, addressing a significant challenge in the field.
The Powder Toy (abbreviated TPT), like most falling sand games, is a sandbox video game that allows users to create things in-game to share using its online level sharing system, which includes a Front Page (often referred to as FP).
H-912 transport container for Mk-54 SADM. A suitcase nuclear device (also suitcase nuke, suitcase bomb, backpack nuke, snuke, mini-nuke, and pocket nuke) is a tactical nuclear weapon that is portable enough that it could use a suitcase as its delivery method.
Persson's most popular creation is the survival sandbox game Minecraft, which was first publicly available on 17 May 2009 [37] and fully released on 18 November 2011. Persson left his job as a game developer to work on Minecraft full-time until completion. In early 2011, Mojang AB sold the one millionth copy of the game, several months later ...
Nukemap (stylised in all caps) is an interactive map using Mapbox [1] API and declassified nuclear weapons effects data, created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons.
A type of nuclear explosive most suitable for use by ground special forces was the Special Atomic Demolition Munition, or SADM, sometimes popularly known as a suitcase nuke. This is a nuclear bomb that is man-portable, or at least truck-portable, and though of a relatively small yield (one or two kilotons) is sufficient to destroy important ...
Weapons of Math Destruction is a 2016 American book about the societal impact of algorithms, written by Cathy O'Neil. It explores how some big data algorithms are increasingly used in ways that reinforce preexisting inequality. It was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction but did not make it through the shortlist.
Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian and American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design based on Stanisław Ulam's design.