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John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)
On April 8, 2020, John Horton Conway developed symptoms of COVID-19. On April 11, 2020, he succumbed to the disease. 1 2 3 4
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 791 posts.
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Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
Using Anyscale Endpoints, we compared Llama 2 7b, 13b and 70b vs. OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 for accuracy and cost.
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The next Raptor OpenPOWER systems are coming, but they won't be Power10
I'd like to first start out by saying I've been aware of new developments but made certain promises to keep my mouth shut until all the pa...
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Hardware Intrinsics in .NET 8
.NET 8 includes significant improvements to the Hardware Intrinsics feature.
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LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
Stéphane Graber's website -
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NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition
Thousands of volunteers helped map surveillance cameras that the NYPD could use to track people using facial recognition.
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The False Promise of Chomskyism
Important Update (March 10): On deeper reflection, I probably don’t need to spend emotional energy refuting people like Chomsky, who believe that Large Language Models are just a laughable fa…
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Programming AIs worry me
For some inane reason, Github classifies me as a "major open source maintainer", which means I get a free copilot subscription.1 I've been using it for a...
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Good times create weak men (2019)
Software abstraction ladder becomes too tall and starts to fall
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How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)
One of the most asked about topics to folks working on upstream container technologies is running Podman within a container. Most of this has histo...
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Diffusion with Offset Noise: Finetuning SD to generate very dark or light images
Historical research record. Fine-tuning against a modified noise, enables Stable Diffusion to generate very dark or light images easily.
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Chat Control 2.0: EU set to approve end of private messaging, secure encryption
By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag
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Infra-Red, in Situ (Iris) Inspection of Silicon
Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure elements. But how do we come to trust our secure elements? I have been searching for solutions to this thorny supply chain problem . Ideally, one can directly inspect the construction of a chip, but any viable inspection…
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Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
In a world without vegetable oil, we may be twenty pounds lighter, have half the amount of heart disease and cancer, live longer, think clearer, feel better, and be happier and less depressed.
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The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor
The Intel i960 was a remarkable 32-bit processor of the 1990s with a confusing set of versions. Although it is now mostly forgotten (outs...
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The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code
First a round of thanks for the many people in industry and government who provided valuable links, background and insights! I could not have done this without your help! If you spot any mistakes, or have suggestions, please do contact me on bert@hubertnet.nl The EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal…
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Cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C
Following up from the last post, there is a lot more we need to cover. This was intended to be the post where we talk exclusively about benchmarks and numbers. But, I have unfortunately been perfectly taunted and status-locked,
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You can't reach the brain through the ears
Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?
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How Many People? Ancient Demography
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023121 points5 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach t…
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This is what the year actually looks like (2018)
A few weeks back, I asked the Norwegian public what the year looks like inside their heads. It led to a deluge of responses. Here's a summary of more than 75 000 month placements, and nearly 40 000 questionnaire responses.
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The Long Shadow of Checks
A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.
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The Backbone: A History of the Internet
This page provides a single entry point to all the posts in the story of how the world got online. Now available as a book, buy here. The Backbone: Introduction One System, Universal Service? The U…
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EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encryption
Stanford Center for Internet and Society2023119 points147 commentscited by 3Society, Policy & Culture details
Recently, Wired reported on documents leaked in May from the Council of the European Union’s ongoing deliberations over the draft Child Sex Abuse Regulation. The proposal is controversial because, as presently written, it would require online service providers to proactively scan their services – including users’…
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Stéphane Graber has left Canonical
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Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground
Via this comment on Hacker News I started exploring the ClickHouse Playground . It's really cool, and among other things it allows CORS-enabled API hits that can query a decade of history from the GitHub events archive in less than a second.
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DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist
A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.
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Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
SemiAnalysis published something of a bombshell leaked document this morning: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. The source of the document is vague: The text below is …
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Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification
Google Cloud assumes responsibility for potential legal risks of using our generative AI, offering indemnities for training data and generated output.
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Avoiding visible texture repetition (2015)
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.