VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Vesuvius Challenge - Resurrect an ancient library from the ashes of a volcano 2024-03-31

   tags: graphics/2d, graphics/3d, history, image, image/optical-character-recognition, radiography/tomography, radiography/x-ray, text, volcano

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   79 AD Mount Vesuvius erupts. In Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash bury an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there is a vast library of papyrus scrolls. The scrolls are carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris. But they are also preserved. For centuries, as virtually every ancient text exposed to the air decays and disappears, the library of the Villa of the Papyri waits underground, intact.

   • Vesuvius Challenge 2023
   • educelab/volume-cartographer - Volumetric processing toolkit and C++ libraries for the recovery and restoration of damaged cultural materials
     • schillij95/volume-cartographer-papyrus
     • spacegaier/volume-cartographer/
   • KhartesViewer/khartes - Explore, and then segment, the data volumes created by high-resolution X-ray tomography of the Herculaneum scrolls
   • The Getty Villa
   • Herculaneum Papyri
   • Students Decipher 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scrolls
2. Lenovo Thinkpad 13 + Linux - Feedback 2017-04-15

   tags: fan, hardware, hardware/cpu, heat, laptop, lenovo, linux, noise

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   +++: backlit keyboard, battery ++: HDPI matte screen, touchpad+trackpad -: BIOS messages in approximative English --: no ethernet port ---: cooling / fan noise

   ETH available through:

   • 10$ generic USB-C adapter
   • 25$ Lenovo USB-C adapter
   • 150$ Lenovo USB-C dock
   • 180$ Lenovo docking station

   Cooling / fan control:

   • triggered when the CPU reaches approx. 46° / 20% load
   • slowest speed: 3400 RPM (!), goes up to 4000+ RPM

   TODO:

   • try updating BIOS/UEFI
   • use a laptop cooling pad
   • killall -9 firefox # not really an option tho

   User-contributed feedback:

   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4k2kzl/debian_on_the_thinkpad_13/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4jh3wb/thinkpad_13_manjaroarch_impressions/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4lzsks/my_thinkpad_13_experience_with_ubuntu_1604/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4pieti/thinkpad_13_fan_vs_zenbook/
3. RFC 7168 - The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA) 2017-02-24

   tags: coffee, htcpcp, pot, protocol, tea

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   "Care should be taken so that coal-fired pots and electrically heated kettles are not connected to the same network, to prevent pots from referring to any kettles on the network as darkened or otherwise smoke driven."

4. The Leidenfrost Maze - YouTube 2013-10-03

   tags: boil, drop, heat, leidenfrost, maze, science, water

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