Whiskey Riff

Stop Fishing Your Chatterbait Wrong: 3 Simple Tweaks To Catch More Bass

A Chatterbait (AKA bladed jig or vibrating jig) is one of the most beloved "power fishing" lures in a bass angler’s arsenal. It combines the flash of a spinnerbait, the vibration of a crankbait, and ...
Oak Ridge National Lab

Mechanical behavior analysis using small-size graphite disc compression testing with digital image correlation methods

The ASTM International Standard Test Method for Tensile Stress-Strain of Carbon and Graphite (ASTM C749) requires dog-bone shaped specimens. Unfortunately, specimen sizes required in ASTM C749 are ...
Bell of Lost Souls

D&D: Five Ways To Use Random Encounters For Fun And Profit

Random encounters can be good, actually. And here's how you can use random encounters to keep your game spicy.
IEEE

Automated Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation Using Mask R-CNN for Glaucoma Assessment

Abstract: Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, requires precise segmentation of the optic disc and optic cup in fundus images for early diagnosis and progression monitoring. This study ...
IEEE

On the Use of GPT-4 for Creating Goal Models: An Exploratory Study

Abstract: The emergence of large language models and conversational front-ends such as ChatGPT is revolutionizing many software engineering activities. The extent to which such technologies can help ...