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Sales happen when buyers fear missing out
ROI (and I) are naïve
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Making my local LLM voice assistant faster and more scalable with RAG
If you read my previous blog post, you probably already know that I like my smart home open-source and very local, and that certainly includes any voice assistant I may have. If you watched the video demo, you have probably also found out that it’s… slow. Trust me, I did too. Prefix caching helps, but it feels like…
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Serialization for C# Games
Build complex state preservation systems for implementing game save systems or custom netcode with Chickensoft's new serialization tools.
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Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read
This father has been using spaced repetition (Anki) to teach his children how to read several years earlier than average. Michael Nielsen and Gwern tweeted about the interesting case of a reddit user, u/caffeine314 (henceforth dubbed “CoffeePie”), who has been using spaced repetition with his daughter from a very…
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Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)
If you’ve done any 3D programming, you’ve likely encountered the zoo of techniques and representations used when working with 3D rotations. Some of them are better than others, depending on the situation.
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Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed
Update Oct. 31, 2024: We are committed to delivering a secure and trusted experience with Recall. We recently shared updates to the security and privacy architecture for Recall in a
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Turning the Tables on AI
How about using it not to think less but *more*?
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Leveraging Zig's Allocators
How Zig's allocators can help manage memory and improve performance
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Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
Power your open source project with Vercel platform credits, exclusive community support, and extra benefits.
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Nemotron-4-340B
Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models optimized for NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, includes cutting-edge instruct and reward models, and a dataset for generative AI training.
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Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
Blog posts from the lytix team
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Start presentations on the second slide
Aka "in media res"
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Does anybody know this fractal? (2012)
Experimenting with the "divisibility" of complex numbers, I stumbled across this thingy. It looks like a fractal. Although the formula does not do any iterations. It reminds me of something. But I dont know what. Doing a Google image search brings up a couple of galaxies :) This image shows the region from (-1/-1) to…
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The problem with OpenTelemetry
I regularly complain about OpenTelemetry, so with an aim to be a less useless contributor, today I'm putting pen to paper. If you're an implementer, I ask you to read this and take away the personal bias you might have towards your work, and instead look objectively at the feedback being given.
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I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game
Update: This kinda blew up! Featured in Hacker News, Ars Technica and PC Gamer, among others. Just months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk, Jim Storer, a Lexington High School student…
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Driving forward in Android drivers
Posted by Seth Jenkins, Google Project ZeroIntroduction Android's open-source ecosystem has ...
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A look at Apple's technical approach to AI including core model performance etc.
Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models "thinking different."
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Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers (2009)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
A high-level how-to guide by Lars Doucet and Dan Cook for game designers and game economists working in large multiplayer online games and/or virtual worlds.
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Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, among others, NIOZ published their results in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment. They expect that many more plastic degrading fungi are living in…
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I bought an encyclopedia
NOTE: This is a companion post to my piece in Public Books, "The Encylopedia Project: Or, how to know in…
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Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code
You can come to McDonalds and order a salad, but you won't. Same with notebooks, you can write NASA-production-grade software in a notebook, but most likely you won't. Notebooks make you lazy, and encourage bad practices.
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OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board
Nakasone brings cybersecurity experience to growing Board of Directors; will join the Board’s Safety and Security Committee
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New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos
Mark Hamilton, an MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science and affiliate of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), wants to use machines to understand how animals communicate. To do that, he set out first to create a system that can learn human language “from…
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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers
MIT Media Lab Spin-off Augmental has developed the MouthPad, a device that allows users to interact with phones and computers using their tongue and other head gestures.
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Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE
We discuss streaming and vectored I/O in Postgres 17. This is an important step towards implementing asynchronous I/O in Postgres. In Postgres 17 we do not yet have asynchronous I/O, but we do see a performance benefit from what is essentially a refactoring work around the internal APIs.
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IntelliJ GitHub Plugin leaking credentials
A new security issue was discovered that affects the JetBrains GitHub plugin on the IntelliJ platform, which could lead to disclosure of access tokens to third-party sites. The issue affects all IntelliJ-based IDEs as of 2023.1 onwards that have the JetBrains GitHub plugin enabled and configured/in-use.
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MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. We are working to make RTC accessible by providing a high-q…
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iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm