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Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital find that participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.
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From JSON Files to etcd: A Tailscale Database Migration Story
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In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
Interaction models move beyond turn-based AI interfaces by handling multimodal, real-time collaboration natively across audio, video, and text.
Python might be hard to install on Windows, but with the latest Windows 10 update, you can type "python" to find it in the Microsoft Store.
How George Soros made his fortune on a daring bet against the British pound and the Bank of England.
Dolphin researchers are using Gemma and Google Pixel phones to try to decipher how dolphins talk to one another.
Learn to improve the brightness and clarity of images in your mind's eye. Image Streaming is an easy technique to learn. Is it a cure for aphantasia?
Bronze/Starter is being phased out and current customers have over a year to transition.
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust.
Go tooling and design help mitigate supply chain attacks at various stages.
Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to cause the model to make a mistake; they’re like optical illusions for machines. In this post we’ll show how adversarial examples work across different mediums, and will discuss why securing systems against them…
A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models
Posted by Andrew Godwin on Dec. 11, 2015
We are pleased to announce today the initial release of Transit. Transit is a format and set of libraries for conveying values between applications written i...
Ten years ago, Chas Emerick ran the first State of Clojure survey. In 2010, most users had been using Clojure for just weeks or months, and few were using it as a language for serious work. This year , we see consistent and growing use for work , steady interest in the key value propositions of Clojure, and an…
Summary The investigations on Thunderbird’s future home have concluded. The Mozilla Foundation has agreed to serve as the legal and fiscal home for the Thunderbird project, but Thunderbird will migrate off Mozilla Corporation infrastructure, separating the operational aspects of the project. Background In late 2015…
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars in store…
A deep dive into container scheduling and Flyd, our new orchestrator.
Money always helps, but for the poorest, one large lump sum can last a long time. A long-term universal basic income also looks promising.
