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Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter
Now lets's change the grammar so that if we don't have an else condition we default to None .
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AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers
AlphaQubit is an AI-based decoder that identifies quantum computing errors with state-of-the-art accuracy.
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An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags
Rabbit Waves
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Mistral Agents
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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The first amateur radio station on the moon
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
What’s the real reason that cellphone manufacturers stopped fitting this simple, robust connector?
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MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
The origin of the term is credited to Dr Gary L. Henderson, of the University of California at Davis. A designer drug is based on the structure of an existing drug – which may be naturally sourced from a plant (like cocaine or morphine ) or be synthetic (like amphetamine ) - but with a slightly different structure…
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Update on Llama adoption
Llama models are approaching 350 million downloads to date, and they were downloaded more than 20 million times in the last month alone, making Llama the leading open source model family.
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Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)
Question for Quote Investigator: The relationship between bankers and borrowers is symbiotic and occasionally counter-intuitive. Here is a pertinent adage:
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Go east from Seattle
Fin Moorhouse's website
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How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
The risk of Lyme disease has increased due to climate change and warmer temperature. A rheumatologist offers advice on how to best avoid ticks while going outdoors.
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Recreating the Flying Toasters screen saver for the Vision Pro
I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week break between jobs. I wanted to explore its potential and learn some new skills. My day job primarily involves low-level firmware; I hadn’t built a user-facing app in a while–my last iOS app experience was back in high school in 2011!…
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Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)
Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying)
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The GPT Store
We’re launching the GPT Store to help you find useful and popular custom versions of ChatGPT.
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Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – In a head-to-head comparison of masks worn by people with active COVID-19, the inexpensive “duckbill” N95 came out on top, stopping 98% of COVID-19 particles in the breath of infected people from escaping into the air. Led by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health…
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Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
Looking for Alice, part 3
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Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
Researchers at ETH Zurich are using iron to store hydrogen safely and for long periods. In the future, this technology could be used for seasonal energy storage.
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All web "content" is freeware
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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Firefox 127
You can now set Firefox to automatically launch whenever you start or restart your Windows computer. Setting Firefox to auto-launch optimizes efficiency in our browser-centric digital routines, eliminating manual startup delays and facilitating immediate web access. ( Learn more )
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The current state of OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry round for 2023 and what to expect in 2024
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A place I've never been to. A place I'll never go
I’ve always wanted to visit Market Village, but I never will. And neither will you.
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The Birth of Standard Error (2013)
Earlier today Stephen Johnson, in a mailing list run by the The Unix Heritage Society , described the birth of the standard error concept: the idea that a program's error output is sent on a channel different from that of its normal output. Over the past forty years, all major operating systems and language libraries…
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Maybe Everything Is a Coroutine
I was inspired, after reading the excellent blog post Let Futures Be Futures, by the author’s thought experiment of a language in which all functions are coroutines and this is used to express asynchr…
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The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases
Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open…
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300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto
The donation is structured in two 150k USD payments, one due right away, the second one year from now.
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LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking
This is a tutorial series to help you set up the Vim or Neovim text editors for efficiently writing math in LaTeX. Here is an example of what I have in mind:
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Lou's Pseudo 3D Page (2013)
Previous update: An explanation of 3d projection mathematics (under Road Basics) and analysis of Activision's Enduro (under Case Studies)! Thanks to everyone for all the e-mail! Keep it coming :) Sorry, I can't answer questions about when I'll post source code, but I'm always happy to answer anything else about these…
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How Antithesis finds bugs
Can solving Super Mario Bros. help solve your distributed systems issues?