Collaborate Disseminate
Most of (or even all) programming languages need the developer to seed an RNG manually in order to generate random-numbers. C for example has no seed, while go uses 1 as default seed.
The easiest solution to this problem is t… Continue reading Why do programming languages don’t use a seed by default? [on hold]
Developers have found that a fake version of a popular Bitcoin Wallet comes equipped with the ability to steal users’ seeds. On 9 May, the Electrum team published a document on GitHub calling out “Electrum Pro” as “stealwareR… Continue reading Devs Find Fake Version of Bitcoin Wallet Stealing Users’ Seeds
Seattle-based BloomAPI is announcing a $2.4 million seed round this morning for its solution to the broken medical records release process. It’s no secret that the entire US healthcare system is held back by antiquated technology — but unlike many competitors, BloomAPI offers a solution that works with, and not against, the old school technologies that are still the unfortunate… Read More Continue reading BloomAPI locks down $2.4M to fix medical record releases
‘Seed’ will allow players to build a society together, from the ground up. Continue reading ‘Governance in the Real World Is So Fucked:’ Lawrence Lessig Is Working on an MMO
Aiden, a London-based startup building a machine learning-powered personal assistant to save mobile marketers time and money, closed a $750,000 seed round today from Kima Ventures and a number of angels, including Nicolas Pinto, Pierre Valade and… Continue reading Aiden closes $750,000 seed round in its quest to amplify marketers
If astronauts are going to make it on long duration space missions, they’re going to need some veggies. Continue reading Inside NASA’s Space Farming Labs
[Jethro Tull] is a name you may well associate with a 1970s prog/folk rock band featuring a flautist, but the original [Tull] was an inventor whose work you benefit from every day. He was a British lawyer and landowner who lived over the turn of the 18th century, and who invented among other things the mechanical seed drill.
Were [Tull] alive today he would no doubt be impressed by the work of [Akash Heimlich], who has created an exquisite vacuum seed placer for his rooftop hydroponic lettuce farm. Unlike the continuous rows of seed on the Berkshire earth of [Tull]’s …read more
How would you go about sculpting a garden in the 21st century? One answer, perhaps predictably, is with a 3D printer. Gone are the days of the Chia pet. Thanks to a team of students out of University of Maribor in Slovenia, today we can 3D print living sculptures of our own design.
PrintGREEN traces its roots to an art project undertaken by Maja Petek, Tina Zidanšek, Urška Skaza, Danica Rženičnik, and Simon Tržan — an engineering student who worked on the project’s 3D printer — all mentored by professor Dušan Zidar. It uses a modified CNC machine to print …read more
