DeepSeek OCR

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Researchers release DeepSeek-OCR, a model for image understanding from a large language model perspective. It can perform OCR, document conversion, and image description tasks.

Space Elevator

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Take a trip to space and explore the atmosphere in the world's only space elevator.

Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

Docker services are experiencing issues, causing access problems across multiple products. Investigation is ongoing to resolve the issues and provide a report.

Major AWS Outage Happening

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)

The Linux Network Stack includes upper layers (TCP, UDP) and lower layers (GRO, RPS, RFS, GSO) with various optimizations and statistics. It also covers virtualization, containers, network sockets, device drivers, network functions, and interfaces like Bridge, Bond, and Tap.

AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1

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Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

Richard Saynor, head of Sandoz, discussed the generics industry and its unique challenges, including fierce competition and complex IP issues. Novo's patent for semaglutide lapsed in Canada due to unpaid fees, leaving a huge market open for generics.

Oma: An attempt at reworking APT's interface

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oma is a user-friendly package manager for dpkg-based OS, integrating with system management functions and providing fool-proofing mechanisms. It's available for AOSC OS, Debian, Ubuntu, and other distributions, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware

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The article explains how to reverse-engineer the firmware of a vintage synthesizer, specifically the Yamaha DX7, using a disassembler called Ghidra and a basic understanding of low-level programming. By tracing the address decoding logic in the synth's schematics, the article maps the memory-mapped peripherals and sets up the memory map in Ghidra to disassemble the firmware.

Forth: The programming language that writes itself

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The user shares their personal journey of discovering the Forth programming language and its context in computing history, highlighting its use of Reverse Polish Notation and stack-based operations. They delve into the concept of concatenative programming, combinators, and Joy, a language that uses combinators to perform computations, and explore the idea of universal computation and the ...

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

Get good grades by studying in advance, attending tutorials, and using effective study habits, but don't overdo it and remember that grades are not the only thing that matters. Focus on gaining real-world experience, getting involved in projects and research, and building a reputation as a driven and motivated individual to increase your chances of success.

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

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Amazon Web Services is experiencing a major outage affecting multiple online services including Amazon, Alexa, and Fortnite. The cause of the outage is unclear and Amazon is investigating to restore regular service.

Bat v0.26.0 Released

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Recent bat improvements include support for negative line ranges and context in line ranges. Other changes include fixes for crashes, improved CSV/TSV highlighting, and support for new file types.

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%

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Place the ROM in the repo root, rename it to baserom.us.z64 or baserom.fr.z64, and run make with optional arguments. Add flags like VERSION, NON_MATCHING, and MODERN to customize the build process.

Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument

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The user discusses the trade-off between writing terse code and keeping LLMs performing well, suggesting that the aesthetic preference for terseness should give way to the preference for LLM accuracy. They argue that writing terse code has higher perplexity and is therefore harder for the LLM to work with reliably, and that prompting strategies like "think step by step" or "be verbose" ...

Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors

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The Gleam library provides an actor abstraction for OTP, handling system messages and enabling debugging and tracing. Actors can be used to create processes, supervise other processes, and restart them if they crash.

Airliner hit by possible space debris

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A United 737 MAX plane over Colorado was possibly hit by space debris or a meteorite, causing damage to the windshield and frame. The plane diverted to Salt Lake City without incident, with passengers continuing their flight on another plane.

Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date

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(I wrote this back in May and failed to hit publish for some reason — which I discovered when I wanted to point somebody else to it. So publishing now!) Today the expiry date for a dashboard metric came up. It’s a proxy trailing metric for Something We Care About. The details are unimportant. Tracking it for the last eighteen months has helped us spot some opportunities to improve. In the ...

Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia

Oskar Speck, a German citizen, paddled a kayak 30,000 miles from Germany to Australia in seven years. He was interned as an enemy alien upon arrival in 1939.

Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi

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Dosbian V3.0 is a donationware distro for Raspberry Pi that boots straight to Dosbox, allowing users to install and run DOS games and software. It supports MMX instructions and is compatible with Raspberry Pi models.

QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

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User rewrote Java QuickDraw code in Swift to decode and display QuickDraw image files, releasing it for the 40th Macintosh anniversary. The program translates QuickDraw instructions to Core Graphics, supporting various image formats and exporting to PDF.

From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds

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Cate Blanchett supports the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew's Wakehurst botanic garden, which stores 2.5 billion seeds from 40,000 species worldwide. The seed bank helps restore threatened environments by releasing seeds back into their natural habitats.

Subway station study reveals fungal communities

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Researchers studied fungal communities in 15 Beijing subway stations, finding 270 diverse genera that varied by season and station type. Their findings could enhance public health initiatives and improve air quality by considering fungi in ventilation and pollution control strategies.

Compare Single Board Computers

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Compare single board computers with comprehensive benchmarks, specifications, and real-world performance data. Find the perfect SBC for your project.

What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?

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GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

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Xeus-Octave is a new JupyterLite kernel that allows running GNU Octave code directly in the browser, overcoming challenges like Fortran common symbols and GUI functionalities. The kernel was created by patching LLVM and modifying GNU Octave to target WebAssembly, with contributions from multiple developers and teams.

A Tiny Typo May Explain Centuries-Old Mystery Bout Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

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Historians at the University of Cambridge have made a breakthrough in understanding a 12th-century poem, The Song of Wade, by correcting a typo in its translation. The corrected translation suggests the poem deals with human chivalry and romance rather than mythological creatures.

The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish

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The Spilhaus Projection is a unique map that centers on Antarctica and presents the oceans as a unified body of water. It was designed by Dr Spilhaus, a renaissance man and prolific inventor, to focus on the watery parts of the planet.

Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one

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We replaced our 30-year-old refrigerator with a new one, saving 57 kWh of electricity per month. The new fridge will pay off in 38 months based on current electricity prices.