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The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros
The Rhisotope Project at Wits is entering a new testing phase with the insertion of radioisotopes into 20 live rhinoceros.
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Understanding React Compiler
Cache all the things. How React Compiler works under-the-hood.
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The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing
And What is Says About the Institutional Problems in American Cities & Infrastructure
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Everything I Knew About Stretching Was Wrong
In the past 12 months my body’s mobility and flexibility went from abysmal, a source of persistent pain impacting my quality of life, to pretty darn good. I’m not about to become a stretching influencer, but after a year of researching, trial and error, and hard work I feel back on track and like I... Continue reading…
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Entrust Certificate Distrust
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team Update (09/10/2024): In support of more closely aligning Chrome’s planned compliance ...
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CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4
CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4, writes critiques of ChatGPT responses to help human trainers spot mistakes during RLHF
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Making the Kinopio source code public
On the eve of it’s 5th anniversary, I’ve decided to make the code for the kinopio-client app public. That means you can run Kinopio on your own computer, make changes, and share improvements.
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How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation
I summarise the kinds of evaluations that are needed for a structured data generation task.
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Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
Calculations in Google Sheets were initially done on the server, then on the client in JavaScript, and now on the client in WebAssembly Garbage Collection. This case study explains how and why.
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Flow Charts with CSS Anchor Positioning
Learn how to use CSS Anchor Positioning to create flow charts and diagram with just CSS.
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Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs
One of the items on my todo list was: And that’s because I’ve been looking for an easy way to do simple plots for yonks. When I did a post about movie ratings, I tried chart.el: It̵…
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
There is a new clear best (non-tiny) LLM.
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DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
There is such a thing as a free lunch
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Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites
polyfill.io, a popular JavaScript library service, can no longer be trusted and should be removed from websites
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Figma AI
We’re introducing a suite of AI-powered features to help you push past creative blocks and bring your best ideas to life.
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Anthropic: Expanding Access to Claude for Government
Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet are now available in the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community and in AWS GovCloud.
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Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
Podman Desktop 1.11 has been released!
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Will we ever get fusion power?
“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”
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gRPC: The Bad Parts
gRPC isn't perfect but who is?
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My (Neo)Vim workflow
A guy decides to show off his Neovim setup.
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The Point of the Banach Tarski Theorem (2015)
One of my favourite Limited Audience Jokes (although technically it's actually a riddle) goes:
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Moving objects precisely with sound
EPFL researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications such as noninvasive targeted drug delivery.
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FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
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Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail
Guest Post: What I learned when I figured out how to navigate FCC filings.
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Making AI better at math tutoring
Too many students struggle with math. In fourth grade, only 36% of students are proficient in math. By ... Read more