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Researchers get 'compact' hard X-ray machine to work
After years of research, TU/e scientists Jom Luiten and Peter Mutsaers and their team have successfully generated high-quality hard X-rays with a compact device.
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Borges on Chaos Theory
About a weird, lovely short story
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YARA is dead, long live YARA-X
For over 15 years, YARA has been growing and evolving until it became an indispensable tool in every malware researcher’s toolbox.
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Listening with LLM
Overview # This is the first part of many posts I am writing to consolidate learnings on how to finetune Large Language Models (LLMs) to process audio, with the eventual goal of being able to build and host a LLM able to describe human voices. I am motivated to gain hands-on experience tinkering LLMs so, as much as…
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Learning Regular Languages with L* Algorithm
Research in Software Engineering from Rahul Gopinath
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Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round
Qdrant is an Open-Source Vector Search Engine written in Rust. It provides fast and scalable vector similarity search service with convenient API.
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Python Has Too Many Package Managers
Overview of Python's Package management ecosystem in 2024
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LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns
Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
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iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm
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Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
Almost everyone I know who uses a computer, for...
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Code review antipatterns
Code review seems like a great idea, right? Two developers looking at the same code means two chances to spot problems; it spreads understanding of the way the project is evolving; the reviewer can learn useful tricks from reading the author’s code in detail, or spot opportunities to teach the author a useful trick…
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DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)
In January 2008 David DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker published an article criticising MapReduce. As far as I can find, the article is no lon...
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NetBSD 10.0 Released
Download 10.0 from our CDN: amd64 USB , amd64 CD , various ARM devices , full release dir with everything else .
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A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
Another rogue patcher.
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Significant features introduced for recent versions of Perl
History of Perl releases since version 5.6, each with a summary of added or changed features.
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Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981
In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit. 1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on main...
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InVision design collaboration services shutdown
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
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Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks
Rust is my favorite programming language. I've been writing Rust for about 6 years, from college to professionally, and I'm vocal about how helpful the compi...
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Security Is a Useless Controls Problem
We're all a bunch of chimps in a cage
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Shape typing in Python
While I was looking the other way, Python got advanced static types! Here’s matrix multiplication, describing the input shapes and its output shape:
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Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?
A blog about functional programming
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SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency
Serving Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with Sequoia