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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.
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Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF
Contribute to CNCF: Simplify application management with Red Hat's Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, and more
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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time
O2 has today unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat to keep them away from real people, while highlighting the need…
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AI makes tech debt more expensive
AI increases the penalty for low quality code. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
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PyPI now supports digital attestations
Announcing support for PEP 740 on the Python Package Index
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A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework
Is it normal for the Little Snitch Network Extension to consume Gigabytes of memory? No it isn’t. Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers…
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Francois Chollet is leaving Google
Today, we're announcing that Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras and a leading figure in the AI world, is embarking on a new chapter in his career outside of Google.
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DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13
DeepComputing is excited to announce the launch of an exclusive early access program for the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard, specifically designed for industry and business customers. This limited-edition initiative gives early adopters hands-on experience with premium, modular RISC-V development hardware, while their…