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A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking
Neel Nanda reverse engineers neural networks that have "grokked" modular addition, showing that they operate using Discrete Fourier Transforms and tr…
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SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can
libSQL “server mode” (sqld) enables access to SQLite-based databases using Postgres and HTTP network protocols.
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The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill Is a Farce
Two bills reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are headed to the House floor. Meanwhile, FBI agents have used Section 702 databases to conduct millions of invasive searches for Americans’ communications, including those of protesters, racial justice activists, 19,000 donors to a…
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Chromebook Plus
Introducing the all-new Chromebook Plus, a new category of Chromebooks with double the performance.
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Deep cloning objects in JavaScript
It’s been a long time coming, but we finally now have the built-in `structuredClone` function to make deep cloning objects in JavaScript a breeze
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Appeals court upholds right to post public laws online
SAN FRANCISCO—Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be freely disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S...
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What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage
I heard multiple times that AWS scans public GitHub repositories for AWS credentials and informs its users of the leaked credentials.
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Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones
Today, we’re announcing new research into controlled image editing based solely on text instructions and a method for text-to-video generation based on diffusion models.
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Printed robots with bones, ligaments, and tendons
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique.
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In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the moon landing. In retrospect it has almost unanimous support and adoration in the US: pleasing the left as an example of the power of public funding and the right as a triumph of the capitalist west against the
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ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot
ChatGPT seems convincing and wise but is neither wise nor hallucinatory—just bullshit. Here’s biased take on AI’s socalled revolution.
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How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance practical exam?
Nature finds a way.
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Strong arrows: a new approach to gradual typing
An introduction to strong arrows and how it leverages the Erlang VM to provide sound gradual typing.
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Keyboard Maestro 11
Perth, Western Australia - 24 Oct 2023 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 11.0, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for macOS.
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TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees
In December 2023, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) withdrew its support for SUNY-ESF’s Darling transgenic chestnut project. Since then, we’ve received questions about the decision and what’s next for the Darling line. We appreciate those questions because they indicate a deep interest in our mission and reflect…
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Scheme in the browser: A Hoot of a tale
Hey there, it’s been a while! We’re back to share some more exciting news about Guile Hoot , a WebAssembly toolchain and Scheme→WASM compiler. In our last post we demonstrated that the Guile Hoot toolchain can be used to assemble programs written in WebAssembly Text (WAT) format, which allowed us to develop for the…
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The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data
In late January 2023, almost 45 GB of source code from the Russian search giant Yandex was leaked on BreachForums by a former Yandex employee.
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The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore
Björn Brembs argues that learned societies should lead developments on federated social media platforms, such as Mastodon.
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New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
React SPAs still matter: the new React docs push frameworks like Next.js, but dashboards behind a login need no SEO, and SSR adds server load.
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John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI
Celebrated software engineer & Keen Technologies founder John Carmack partners with Amii's Dr. Richard Sutton to bring greater focus to artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
Shiny new things Introducing a brand new editor for Markdown tables. Table rows and columns are now easier to create, edit, sort, reorder, select, copy, and pas...
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Be careful of the examples you use. They stick
Introduction We spend huge amounts of time sweating the details of our products. We want to remove all the friction we can from using them and want to make sure we never leave our users confused. To get this right, we do a bunch of things: we use simple language, we make extensive use of context-sensitive…
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Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers
Deno.serve() is stable, support for key npm packages, and more.
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Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to access the latest compute resources, consistently support worldwide customers, and optimize cost. However…
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Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk
Talk to your smart home and let it talk back with our new voice assistant features.
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Modern Image Processing Algorithms Implementation in C
Learn how modern image analysis and processing algorithms works under the hood with their C/C++ implementation on PixLab's APIs & FACEIO, facial recognition framework using the SOD Embedded Computer Vision Library.
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How to Escape a Container
Panoptica by Outshift delivers advanced cloud-native security insights to help teams protect modern applications and infrastructure at scale.