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“A Brief History of Computer Viruses”

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Belkin QUADRA 4-in-1 PDA Stylus

The best pen and stylus combo I ever used.

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Flimsy multi-tool pen

12-in-1 Multitool Pen

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My current tool pouches

August, 2019

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“Adam Savage's New Leatherworking Toolbox!”

“Adam shares his latest shop upgrade and build: a leatherworking station and storage box for all his leather-related tools! This beautiful wooden box was made in the process of working on his Star-Lord costume belt, and replaces a previous acrylic toolbox. Adam guides us through this toolbox's form factor and its influences.”

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glass vials with screw caps

American Science & Surplus items #94506P20 , #94511P20, #94506P144, #94511P144

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white cap quarter ounce bottles

American Science & Surplus item # 39982

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craft wire

American Science & Surplus item # 93801

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hanging vials

American Science & Surplus item # 94528P1

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barbershop bottle

American Science & Surplus item # 38326P3

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monkey dishes

American Science & Surplus item # 40453P3

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filer paper

American Science & Surplus item # 93566P1

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Picture information

So here is a tip.

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“Screw-y Spring-y Terminal Thingies”

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“ How did NASA Steer the Saturn V?- Smarter Every Day 223”

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Personality links

Ordinarily you want a simple website that doesn't waste frills.

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Nonconsensual technology

You can trust them. Really. They promise.

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“PiVPN : How to Run a VPN Server on a $35 Raspberry Pi!”

“A $35 Raspberry Pi can work as a very effective VPN server. You'll gain access to your local network resources remotely and have a secure connection to the Internet.”

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“I tried Pi-Hole for the first time... (DNS level Ad Blocker)”

“Google wants to wage war against Chrome users in a potential new update. An update that can disable them all together.... "Out of Safety". So I can either switch over to Firefox again or explore Pi Hole as a Network/DNS level Sinkhole/Ad blocker.”

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“Apollo AGC Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon”

“We embark on the restoration of a very rare and historically significant machine: the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC. It was the revolutionary MIT-designed computer aboard Apollo that brought man on the Moon (and back!). Mike Stewart, space engineer extraordinaire and living AGC encyclopedia, spearheads this restoration effort. In this first episode, we setup a makeshift lab in his hotel room, somewhere in Houston. The computer belongs to a delightful private collector, Jimmie Loocke, who has generously allowed us to dive in the guts of his precious machine, with the hope of restoring it to full functionality by July 2019, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.”

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“Thorium - The Future of Energy?”

“There's been a lot of talk about Thorium lately, but what's it all about? Will it be the future of energy?”

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Privacy

This means that there is a huge market out there for privacy. That's why VPN services are doing so well. And that is why Apple is working to make their products more secure.

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“How Machines Learn”

“How do all the algorithms around us learn to do their jobs?”

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“Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models”

“We believe that telepresence technologies in AR, VR and other media are to transform the world in the not-so-distant future. Shifting a part of human life-like communication to the virtual and augmented worlds will have several positive effects. It will lead to a reduction in long-distance travel and short-distance commute. It will democratize education, and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. It will distribute jobs more fairly and uniformly around the World. It will better connect relatives and friends separated by distance. To achieve all these effects, we need to make human communication in AR and VR as realistic and compelling as possible, and the creation of photorealistic avatars is one (small) step towards this future. In other words, in future telepresence systems, people will need to be represented by the realistic semblances of themselves, and creating such avatars should be easy for the users. This application and scientific curiosity is what drives the research in our group, including the project presented in this video.

We realize that our technology can have a negative use for the so-called “deepfake” videos. However, it is important to realize, that Hollywood has been making fake videos (aka “special effects”) for a century, and deep networks with similar capabilities have been available for the past several years (see links in the paper). Our work (and quite a few parallel works) will lead to the democratization of the certain special effects technologies. And the democratization of the technologies has always had negative effects. Democratizing sound editing tools lead to the rise of pranksters and fake audios, democratizing video recording lead to the appearance of footage taken without consent. In each of the past cases, the net effect of democratization on the World has been positive, and mechanisms for stemming the negative effects have been developed. We believe that the case of neural avatar technology will be no different. Our belief is supported by the ongoing development of tools for fake video detection and face spoof detection alongside with the ongoing shift for privacy and data security in major IT companies. ”

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“Adam Savage's Computer History Collection!”

“We're back in Adam's cave to check out some of Adam's computer history collection, including recent acquisitions from the early days of digital computing. Adam shares the significance of each piece and why these he loves collecting these artifacts that together tell the story of human ingenuity. ”

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