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I am an advocate of regenerative farming . But I’m not a farmer myself. The piece of land I steward is 1/3 acre — still sizable for an urban lot, but laughably minuscule compared to what Real Farmers are working with.
Resolving PS2SDK Soft Reset Issues
Discover how OpenTelemetry tracing and Coralogix analysis resolve latency issues, proving observability's role in enhancing system performance and reliability.
Or why clear consistency guarantees are how to stay sane when programming distributed systems.
Dragonfly is a vision-language architecture with multi-resolution zoom for fine-grained image understanding, including a medical model beating Med-Gemini.
The other day I posted something silly, and learned some interesting things about raw pointers in Rust.
Using new techniques for scaling sparse autoencoders, we automatically identified 16 million patterns in GPT-4's computations.
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction After months of efforts, we are pleased to announce the evolution from Qwen1.5 to Qwen2. This time, we bring to you: Pretrained and instruction-tuned models of 5 sizes, including Qwen2-0.5B, Qwen2-1.5B, Qwen2-7B, Qwen2-57B-A14B, and Qwen2-72B; Having been…
The personal website of Elias Daler about programming, technology and videogames
Here are some notes that may help newcomers understand what is actually happening with QEMU devices:
In this article I demonstrate a software only attack that allows an operating system to set the PCRs of a discrete TPM device to arbitrary values and unseal any secret that uses a PCR based sealing policy (such as disk encryption keys used by unattended unlock TPM FDE schemes).
A little-known offshoot of the ATmega series of 8-bit microcontrollers is better, faster, and cheaper than its progenitor.
An Ipsos poll finds overwhelming global support for banning harmful plastics and chemicals, with 87% backing reduced plastic production worldwide.
Stable Audio Open is an open source model optimised for generating short audio samples, sound effects and production elements using text prompts.
Learn how we enhanced TCP performance in Coder to achieve 5X faster throughput by optimizing buffer sizes, implementing the HyStart algorithm, and minimizing packet loss, significantly improving remote development experiences.
With the rise of 'okupación' in Spain, property owners and individuals alike are seeking to navigate the legal landscape and social implications of squatting.
One of the biggest sticking points of being a solo dev is maintaining motivation. I’ve been keeping a journal entry about how to hack my motivation, what works and what doesn’t. Here are the things that have worked. Convert external sources to motivation I’ve always known that I’m more extrinsically than intrinsically…
A hotel check-in kiosk application crashed when entering a single quote into the guest search, which enabled access to the Windows Desktop. The terminal uses the Ariane Allegro Scenario Player.
GitHub Actions now offers Arm-hosted runners with images built by Arm for developers to begin building on the latest and most sustainable processors on the market.
Beating another dead horse.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), discovered by Ian Goodfellow in 2014, were an early method in the area of generative AI. I will focus on image generation as set out in the paper Generative Adversarial Nets 1 . This paper is the focal point of the post, I will guide you through the implementation of the paper…
This article will be part of an extensive series in which I plan to explore various aspects of Fourier Mathematics. I will take notes, create some visuals (a good pretext to learn more about graphics), and hope that it will be helpful to anyone looking for a clear, visual introduction to these concepts. The article…
The ups and downs of publishing non-commercial content on the internet.
Swinging for the fencesThe term “particle accelerator” might lead most people to envision long underground tunnels stretching tens of kilometers and rooms full…
Social media influencers account for a growing share of marketing budgets worldwide. This column examines a problem within this rapidly expanding advertising market – influencer cartels, in which groups of influencers collude to increase advertising revenue by inflating each other’s engagement numbers. Influencer…
