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Mathematica 14
Wolfram's Version 14 includes expansive connections to and from LLMs. New learning tools, including courses and books. Plus, functionality advances in math, core language, video objects, trees, finite fields, Knowledgebase, systems engineering, graphics. Astro, biological and chemical computation.
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Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
An new app called Spaces lets people get together instantly to share articles, videos and images around any topic.
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Factorio 1.1 is getting close
1.1 is getting close kovarex I have been tracking the amount of tasks and forum bugs required to finish 1.1 since the 1.0 release. This allowed me to get quantifiable feedback whether we are actually keeping the timeframe of the 1.1 release reasonable, or digging too deep and expanding the scope too much. If we…
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Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.
My Story of When Google Voice Lost My Number Google Voice lost my number August 12th, 2012, at around 5pm central time. I was able to log into Google Voice and check my messages at around 1pm that …
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An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a pension, or even health insurance. Their difficult lives are made immeasurably harder when they do the work they have been hired to do, but their employers refuse to pay, pay for some hours but not…
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What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
No, you will not write as much code as you think.
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A Wave of Fear in American Commerce
Hi! Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Materialize Raises a $32M Series B
Materialize secures Series B funding to enhance its Operational Data Warehouse with real-time streaming capabilities for immediate data action.
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YC S20 Remote Batch
We have decided to run the S20 batch remotely, because amid the COVID-19 crises, the safety of founders and YC staff is our top priority. Interviews for the batch will be remote, and office hours, evening talks, and meetups throughout the batch will all take place over video conferencing, as well as on our online…
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Never say no, but rarely say yes (2011)
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
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My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight…
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Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
Our new decision-scoring model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models.
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Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL
We're excited to release INTELLECT-2, the first 32B parameter model trained via globally distributed reinforcement learning. Unlike traditional centralized training efforts, INTELLECT-2 trains a reasoning language model using fully asynchronous RL across a dynamic, heterogeneous swarm of compute contributors.
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Cash Cows
He was born, farmed, and died at Dishley, much like his father before him. But Robert Bakewell, unlike most people, caught the improving mentality, or attitude — the one thing all inventors, both then and now, have in common — which had him viewing everything around him in terms of its capacity for betterment. The…
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Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews
Recently, we translated the predictive power of machine learning (ML) into $1.7 million a year in infrastructure cost savings by optimizing how Dropbox generates and caches document previews. Machine learning at Dropbox already powers commonly-used features such as search , file and folder suggestions , and OCR in…
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Your product is a joke: lessons from improv to build better product
The rules that help make good improv comedy can surprisingly help make good product too. Let's run through interesting parallels between the two, and how you can apply some lessons from improv to build better product.
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
I hope the media will look into this