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Bitwise Division
Integer division is expensive. Much more expensive than multiplication. Much, much more expensive than addition. If you’re trying to make some integer operations really fast it’s bad news if you need to do division.
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Making synthesized sounds more acoustic
a blog about music technology
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WASI Support in Go
Go 1.21 adds a new port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API
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Building a Streaming Platform in Go for Postgres
At PeerDB, our mission is to create a Postgres-first data-movement platform that makes it fast and simple to stream data from Postgres to Data Warehouses…
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Astro 2.0
Astro 2.0 is here! Astro 2.0 is the first major web framework to deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX. Other release highlights include: Hybrid Rendering • Redesigned Error Overlays • Improved Dev Server and HMR • Vite 4.0 • A New Public Roadmap
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SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation
SeamlessM4T allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages.
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GCC 13 Released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 13. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 13 page and the full GCC documentation .
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More fun with Apple's internal tools: creating a PDS card
In my last post , I figured out how to use Apple’s leaked Flasher utility from the 1990s to reflash a ROM SIMM inside of my Performa 630. It’s basically the Mac equivalent of a BIOS update, but only for Apple’s developers. The research involved in that post was quite a journey of reverse engineering from both a…
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LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds
A study by Google's DeepMind and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has found that self-correction in large language models (LLMs) isn't universally effective.
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AOL pretends to be the internet
In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate Communications, spun out six […]
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Gen Z Netiquettes
Lessons learned with (no) blood and (all) tears
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The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements
How to “embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of today”
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The Nano ESP32
The Nano ESP32 introduces a new microcontroller architecture to the Nano family. The Nano ESP32 embraces one of the favorite IoT standards.
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Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now possible to buy a 1TB solid-state drive for less than €60. However, at such low price points, there is a catch.
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Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions
My personal website and blog
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The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022)
Building the first iPhone's touchscreen keyboard was a make-it-or-break-it moment for the iPhone. Succeed, and the iPhone was possible. Fail, and the iPhone would've been shelved. This is its story.
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A Bank of One's Own
A fun fact about startups, if you've never worked for one, is that employees don't typically get equity in the company.
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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time
Short article slash rant discussing the Got it! button in a prompt for personalized Web experience in Microsoft Edge, covering user experience interruption, bad design, aggressive marketing, implicit decisions, other annoyances, and more
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Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?
Alles wat Jan bezighoudt, interesseert en irriteert... en ook een beetje onzin...
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Neeva acquired by Snowflake
Snowflake is acquiring Neeva, a search company founded to make search even more intelligent at scale by leveraging generative AI and other innovations.
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Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together
I think by now everybody reading this will have seen how the new generation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT are able to produce somewhat useful code. Like any advance in software development—from IDEs to high-level languages—this has generated some discussion on the future employment prospects in our field.
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Keep stuff linkable
2023-04-18 • Revised for clarity and style, with better link queries, based on feedback from HN. Thank you!
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WTF is a KDF?
Earlier this week a letter from an activist imprisoned in France was posted to the internet. Contained within Ivan Alococo’s dispatch from the Villepinte prison
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My deep learning rig (2022)
A lot of people have asked about the computers I used to train TorToiSe. I’ve been meaning to snap some pictures, but it’s never “convenient” to turn these servers off so I keep procrastinating. We had some severe thunderstorms today here i
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IA Writer in Paper
iA Writer in the form of a physical notebook
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The work is never just “the work” (2022)
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation