Virginia Hall in 1944 on this day set up a safe house in Le Chambon sur Lignon, south central France on the farm of Maurice and Léa Lebrat. In her own words: My life in Haute-Loire was different and difficult. I spent my time looking for fields for receptions, bicycling up and down mountains, checking … Continue reading This Day in History 1944: Virginia Hall Sets Up “The Farm” in Occupied France
Kosta Derpanis posed this question on Twitter: Did you know ConvNets were initially patented by AT&T Bell Labs? Source. Then Yann LeCun, following up a 2019 podcast, replies in an awkward nine part Twitter thread about intentionally violating IP restrictions. Since this thread could disappear any minute, and in the spirit of LeCun’s own violation … Continue reading ConvNets Patent by AT&T Bell Labs
In November of 1944, two Nazi German soldiers were detected while… standing on the side of a road in Maine. The two men, German Erich Gimpel and American defector William Colepaugh, had slipped ashore from a German U-boat that had entered Maine waters. “They just weren’t like normal Mainers in November,” Forni said in 2001. … Continue reading Is it 1944 Again? Police Capture Anti-American Militia Stranded on Road
The Ford Pinto engineering design flaws are infamous, thus it has been the car most associated with preventable fire risks until… TESLA (updated July 2nd): The driver, identified as an “executive entrepreneur”, was initially not able to get out of the car because its electronic door system failed, prompting the driver to “use force to … Continue reading Tesla Faces Massive Recall Due to Acceleration Risk