Fact Check: 'The Matrix' green code was inspired by sushi recipes. That's not the full story

The film's code designer, Simon Whiteley, reportedly created the effect by scanning characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks.

Ritual Founder Calls Out “Pixie Dusting” and What to Look For in Your Vitamins

Inside the supplement industry’s “pixie dusting” problem and why vitamin traceability is becoming the new standard for ...
GitHub

Hemppa - generic modular Matrix bot

This bot is meant to be super easy platform to write Matrix bot functionality in Python. It uses matrix-nio library https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio/ for Matrix ...
The Conversation

Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...
The Atlantic

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair. For a while, everything looks the same. Each authoritarian milestone—the first political prisoner, the first closure of an opposition ...
Frontiers

Expression of extracellular matrix protein in advanced keratoconus and the normal human cornea

Background: The pre-Descemet layer (Dua’s layer) (PDL/DL) and the Descemet membrane (DM) have the highest expression of elastin in normal corneas. Reduced expression of elastin occurs in the corneal ...
PC Gamer

The New York Times thinks generative AI is like Pac-Man ghosts and also the Matrix, because nobody gets to be normal about this stuff anymore

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