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AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers
AlphaQubit is an AI-based decoder that identifies quantum computing errors with state-of-the-art accuracy.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,672 posts.
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Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts
This week's Internet cable cuts in the Baltic Sea have been widely reported, even as attempts to understand their cause and impact continue. We turn to RIPE Atlas to provide a preliminary analysis of these events and ask to what extent the Internet in the region has been resilient to them.
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.
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GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released
The first product-level modern Web framework of Scheme programming language.
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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor to SSL) everywhere? Every browser in every device supports…
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Blender 4.3
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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FLTK 1.4 Released
Update (Nov. 18, 2024): FLTK 1.4.0-1 is a minor update that fixes a build error of a single test program (test/fltk-versions.cxx) on Windows (Visual Studio only). The FLTK library is not affected. End of Update
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A Walk with LuaJIT
How we scrape callstack information from the LuaJIT engine for profiling
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Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
Llama 3.1 405B on Cerebras is by far the fastest frontier model in the world – 12x faster than GPT-4o and 18x faster than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
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DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data
Atlas Biomed, a DNA testing company that promised clients insights into their genetic disposition has suddenly disappeared.
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20 years of Google Scholar
Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio walk through the performance optimizations Antonio when working on Zed's Rope data structure before they then pair on adding more optimizations
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Extending the context length to 1M tokens
API Documentation (Chinese) HuggingFace Demo ModelScope Demo Introduction After the release of Qwen2.5, we heard the community’s demand for processing longer contexts. In recent months, we have made many optimizations for the model capabilities and inference performance of extremely long context. Today, we are proud…
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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.
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We are shutting down Ondsel
After operating for almost two years, Ondsel has made the difficult decision to cease operations and close down.
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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations in sunlight throughout the day. Because it requires no extra batteries, it offers a much more affordable way to produce drinking water, compared to other solar-driven designs.
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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?
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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
Simplifying the problem to an earlier problem.
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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon…
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The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app
Tony Alaribe challenges common myths about multi-page applications (MPAs) and explores how modern browser technologies can enable fast, interactive, and offline-capable web applications without relying on single-page application (SPA) frameworks. Alaribe discusses advancements in service workers, caching, and…
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All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots
TL;DR — We are excited to announce voyage-multimodal-3, a new state-of-the-art for multimodal embeddings and a big step forward towards seamless RAG and semantic search for documents rich with both…
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Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP
The query optimizer is an important part of any analytical database system as it provides considerable performance improvements compared to hand-optimized queries, even as the state of your data changes.
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Non-elementary group-by aggregations in Polars vs pandas
A closer look at non-elementary group-by aggregations
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The Practical Guide to Scaling Django
Most Django scaling guides focus on theoretical maximums. But real scaling isn't about handling hypothetical millions of users - it's about systematically eliminating bottlenecks as you grow. Here's how to do it right, based on patterns that work in production.
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Are We PEP740 Yet?
PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI.
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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
Why cookie banners frustrate users, when EU device-access consent is required, and which narrow exemptions may apply to necessary and audience-measurement cookies.
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Thomas E. Kurtz has died
CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
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OpenMP 6.0
The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP language.