Generative AI tools are overwhelming scholarly journals and conferences with fake papers, including 50 submissions to ICLR that contained obvious hallucinations.
Researchers at Google introduced Titans, a new sequence modeling architecture that combines the speed of RNNs with the accuracy of transformers. Titans uses a deep neural network as a memory module to learn and update its parameters in real-time, enabling it to handle extremely long contexts.
A Java program is created to generate and execute LLVM IR, the intermediate language behind compilers like clang, using Java's Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API to call the LLVM C API. The program prints "Hello, World!" by JIT-compiling the LLVM IR to native machine code using the LLVM JIT compiler API.
Schleswig-Holstein state administration is switching to open source software, saving over 15 million euros in license costs annually. The state expects to save more in the long run despite initial problems and criticism during the migration process.
The author migrated a service from Scala 2.13 to 3.7.3, but performance issues arose due to a library bug affecting chained evaluations. Upgrading the library resolved the issue, highlighting the importance of benchmarking in Scala version migrations.
Mac OS X introduced a bundle structure for applications, consisting of a hierarchy of directories containing executable code and resources, with a standard form including a MacOS directory, Resources, and Info.plist file. The bundle structure has evolved over the years to include additional components such as code signatures, notarization, and store receipts, providing improved security and ...
Oxide's guidelines for using large language models (LLMs) emphasize responsibility, rigor, empathy, and teamwork to ensure their use does not undermine trust and authenticity. LLMs can be useful for tasks like reading comprehension, editing, code review, and debugging, but their use should be carefully considered and not relied upon as a substitute for human judgment and effort.
The creator of Sonner, a popular toast library, made it stand out with a unique name, elegant animations, and a user-friendly API, which led to its widespread adoption. The library's success can be attributed to its attention to detail, good developer experience, and beautiful design, making it a great example for building components that feel just right.
A programmer in a lower dimension cannot comprehend a higher dimension of programming due to their existing mental framework. Recognizing this cognitive bias and being open to new ideas is key to growing as a programmer and embracing new dimensions of programming.
Flight 19, a US Navy training run, vanished on Dec 5, 1945, with 14 men on board, sparking a mystery that remains unsolved. Theories abound, but experts say the likely cause was a combination of pilot disorientation, poor communication, and missed rescue opportunities.
A deadlock occurs when two or more transactions wait for each other to release a resource, causing an infinite wait. To prevent deadlocks, PostgreSQL tracks locks automatically and checks for cycles in the wait-for graph, aborting one of the transactions if a deadlock is detected.
The user made significant improvements to their DIY silicon process, creating a 10µm polysilicon gate process with 100 transistors on a single chip, a huge step closer to more advanced DIY computer chips. They achieved excellent transistor characteristics, including low threshold voltage and leakage current, and plan to automate testing and design more complex circuits.
GrapheneOS provides early Android security patches, backported to Android 13-16, while large companies like Samsung and Google take months to integrate them. This requires significant work and resources, slowing down GrapheneOS feature development.
Unix enthusiasts share their unchanged desktop habits over 13 years, still using terminals and command-line interfaces. They've switched to various Linux distributions and window managers, but remain loyal to their Unix roots and text-based work style.
The author enjoys retro aesthetics but acknowledges the past was not as charming as often portrayed, with many people facing hardships and difficulties. They appreciate the past's lessons, such as the value of music and community, but choose to live in the present with modern conveniences.
Author initially believed duplication was always an anti-pattern but now views it as sometimes necessary due to bad abstractions or tight coupling. Determining if two things are the same can be complex and often depends on the specific situation.
The author discusses how social media has become a mental health hazard and proposes alternatives like StreetPass and Blog Quest, which offer a more controlled online experience. These browser extensions help users discover and connect with others on a decentralized, independent internet.
Literate programming, as envisioned by Donald Knuth, involves writing code and explanations together in a top-down approach, delaying actual code writing until the design is fleshed out, and then weaving the code and explanations into a readable document. The key to successful literate programming is to write the code and explanations iteratively, revising both simultaneously, and to consider ...
Tiny Core Linux is a minimal, ultra small graphical desktop OS that boots fast and supports additional apps and hardware. It's based on a core kernel and modules, with users able to add extensions from online repos or compile their own.
Eurydice is a compiler from Rust to C that aims to produce readable C code, allowing for a gradual transition to Rust while maintaining compatibility with legacy systems. The compiler plugs into the MIR level of the Rust compiler and uses Charon to avoid reimplementing the wheel, with ongoing work to integrate it with Microsoft and Google's crypto libraries.
Perl's growth was hindered by its culture, which was rooted in conservative UNIX sysadmin values and a tribal meritocracy, making it difficult for the language to evolve and adapt to changing needs. The language's culture and values, such as its emphasis on flexibility and its reluctance to change, ultimately led to its decline in popularity, but it remains widely used and influential in the ...
The user reverse-engineered a Beurer PO 80 pulse oximeter, dumping its firmware and bypassing low-level protection using a hardware vulnerability. They successfully patched the firmware to allow for debugging and display manipulation, and plan to further investigate the firmware for potential vulnerabilities.
A Figma engineer's hunt for the perfect answer to a programming challenge led to a mathematical odyssey to describe Apple's squircle shape, a rounded rectangle with continuous curvature. The engineer used mathematical tools to analyze the shape and develop a parametrizable smoothing scheme, but ultimately had to go back to the drawing board due to limitations in representing the shape with ...
Z-Image is a powerful image generation model with 6B parameters, offering sub-second inference latency and photorealistic image generation. It has three variants: Z-Image-Turbo, Z-Image-Base, and Z-Image-Edit, supporting bilingual text rendering and creative image editing.
Photographer Martin Parr has died at 73, known for capturing British life with colourful images. He was a prominent documentary photographer who rose to fame in the 1980s with works that provoked debate and discussion.
The writer is unhappy with Apple's quality and wants a simple, user-aligned laptop with Linux. They dream of a MacBook with Linux, but Asahi Linux faces limitations due to Apple's closed-source hardware.
arXiv has launched HTML papers alongside PDFs to improve accessibility, with a goal to backfill over 2 million papers over time. The beta rollout is a work in progress, and feedback from the community is needed to improve conversions from LaTeX.
OpenAI disabled a feature in ChatGPT that suggested third-party applications after users complained it resembled advertisements. The company will improve the model's precision and add better controls to avoid misleading users.
A clinician discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism, noting that many people self-diagnose with autism due to its high public awareness and perceived recognition of their social difficulties. The clinician emphasizes that autism diagnosis requires a nuanced understanding of various diagnostic possibilities, including anxiety disorders, schizoid personality, and social communication disorder.