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Inside the 50-year mystery of David Lynch’s never-made weirdest masterpiece

David Lynch spent 50 years trying to make Ronnie Rocket, an unmade surrealist film about a three-foot rock star and ...

“It sounds like a terrible B-flick horror soundtrack.” Eddie Van Halen on the night he got drunk and wrecked Marvin Hamlisch’s piano

During a late-night experiment in a rented Malibu home, the guitarist scraped the composer’s Yamaha grand with forks and ...
ZME Science

Scientists Model Sound Physics of a 300-Year-Old Stradivarius and It Could Change How Violins Are Made

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an ...
IEEE

Occlusion-Resilient Instance Segmentation of Surgical Instrument Parts Using YOLO and Generative Adversarial Networks for Minimal Invasive Robotic Surgery

Abstract: Accurate segmentation of surgical instruments is critical for improving safety and precision in minimally invasive robotic surgery. However, real-world surgical scenes often involve ...