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The GPU that says yes and does nothing: debugging real-time hair segmentation on mid-range Android

We build a virtual mirror for hair salons : a tablet camera feed where the customer's hair changes colour in real time while they move their head. Two constraints shaped every decision.

  • Virtual mirror for hair salons created using tablet camera feed
  • MediaPipe's ImageSegmenter with GPU delegate returned zero hair pixels
  • Recolouring moved to fragment shader, improving performance

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Laravel Concurrency: Atomicity, Transactions, and Locking

Two customers try to purchase a product at exactly the same time. If the application isn't designed for concurrency, both requests might read stock = 1 and both complete the purchase.

  • Atomicity ensures database operations are treated as a single indivisible unit.
  • Laravel's DB::transaction() method can create atomic operations.
  • Transactions are finalized with COMMIT or undone with ROLLBACK.

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Facts: Curated Knowledge for Humans and Agents

  • Facts system focuses on determining accepted knowledge through multi-player consensus.
  • Propositions become facts after validation, maintaining a history of knowledge changes.
  • System is agnostic to human, agent, or organization actors, ensuring flexible application.

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MTN Deploys 80 New Sites Up North

Participants at the media and stakeholder forum in Tamale MTN Ghana has announced plans to deploy 80 new network sites across the Northern, Savannah, Upper East and North East Read More...

  • MTN deploys 80 new network sites in northern Ghana regions.
  • Total cell sites in Ghana to reach 500 after deployment.
  • MTN invests $1.1 billion in network expansion over three years.

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EFF's Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: 'Get a Warrant First' - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law

Some take their criticism even further. Reacting to Flock's changes, an EFF statement calls it "Too little, too late," while calling it Flock's admission that their technology needs reforms. But...

  • EFF criticizes Flock's ALPR database changes as "too little, too late"
  • Police must obtain a judge-signed warrant to search historic ALPR data
  • EFF opposes companies setting privacy limits, advocates for legislative intervention
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