The authors discuss their efforts to optimize AI compute on NVIDIA's H100 GPU, highlighting the importance of new instructions like wgmma.mma_async and TMA for achieving high utilization. They also introduce ThunderKittens, an embedded DSL within CUDA that simplifies writing kernels for AI workloads by abstracting away low-level details and providing a mini-pytorch-like interface.

The user has been working on a portfolio project, a video editor, for six months to showcase their skills and potentially land a job. The editor is open-source and available on GitHub, with the goal of learning and improving it rather than expecting significant contributions.

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The author discusses how building an alternative implementation of a language or system can be a losing proposition, as it makes you subject to the whims of the canonical implementation and limits your decisional power. Instead, joining or creating something new that diverges from existing languages can be more successful, allowing for evolution at one's own pace and direction.

The article discusses Lisp's ability to implement itself and its unique trait of homoiconicity, where code and data are interchangeable. The author rewrites the "Lisp in Lisp" code in Python while maintaining its spirit, using lists to emulate S-expressions and function calls for M-expressions.

The author used GitHub Copilot for a year and found it helpful for writing boilerplate code, but its unpredictability and slow speed made it less productive. They concluded that they are more productive without Copilot due to its limitations and would not pay for it.

PDFEquips offers all-in-one PDF software tools for format conversion, editing, and organization with enhanced security features. It simplifies tasks like annotations and text extraction from scanned documents with its intuitive interface and OCR technology.

A Slower Speed of Light is a game prototype that simulates special relativity effects, allowing players to experience time dilation and other phenomena. The game uses OpenRelativity, an open-source toolkit for Unity, and has been tested on various computer configurations.

The author wrote a program to automatically dewarp curled pages from scanned documents, using a parametric model to estimate the page's shape and orientation. The program uses adaptive thresholding, connected component analysis, and optimization techniques to detect text contours, group them into spans, and remap the image to produce a straightened output.

A new paper found that while most bachelor's degrees have a positive return on investment, master's and associate degrees are riskier bets with many costing students in the long run. The ROI varies greatly depending on the degree and institution, with some programs having negative returns, highlighting the importance of considering these factors when choosing a college and major.

The author has released version 1.0 of the Incredible KIMplement, an emulator of the KIM-1 single board computer, and also open-sourced "6o6", a software NMOS 6502 CPU that runs on top of another 6502 CPU. The author has also created several demos showcasing the capabilities of the emulator and virtual machine, including task-switching and terminal-based systems with external memory expansion.

Researchers have developed a low-power and simplified whole-body MRI scanner that operates without RF or magnetic shielding, making it more accessible and affordable for global healthcare settings. The scanner uses a compact permanent magnet and deep learning to eliminate electromagnetic interference, enabling clear imaging with acceptable scan times.

When Roger Penrose originally came out with the idea that the human brain uses quantum effects in microtubules and that was the origin of consciousness, many thought the idea was a little crazy. According to a new study, it turns out that Penrose was actually right… about the microtubules anyways. Let’s have a look.

Researchers analyze Large Language Model tokenizers to identify untrained and under-trained tokens, developing methods for automatic detection. The study finds prevalence of problematic tokens across various models, providing insights for improving language model efficiency and safety.

A security vulnerability was discovered in many DKIM setups, allowing forged emails to be sent and passing DMARC checks. The vulnerability affects BIMI due to a poorly designed specification, and many companies have not rotated their keys since the Debian OpenSSL bug was fixed in 2008.

The author compares software development to cabinetmaking, emphasizing the importance of making deliberate trade-offs and focusing on what matters most to customers. A professional developer should own their technical decisions, understand customer needs, and prioritize efficiency without compromising quality or user experience.

Yi-1.5 is an upgraded version of Yi with stronger performance in coding, math, and instruction-following capabilities. It comes in three model sizes and can be fine-tuned using various frameworks and APIs for OpenAI-compatible usage.

MacRelix natively supports classic 68K and PPC Mac OS, as well as Mac OS X on PPC via Carbon. To get started, download the MacRelix installer. It requires a classic Mac OS environment with Open Transport (and an upstream Internet connection).

The author defines a polyglot as someone who can understand and participate in conversations with native speakers, not just memorize words or phrases. They share their own language learning journey, recommending apps like Memrise, grammar books, and daily exposure to the target language through TV shows, podcasts, and reading books.

The author discovered that emoji existed as early as 1984 on Japanese devices, including Sharp's PA-8500 and WD-A521, which featured similar designs to those found on later devices. The history of emoji is more complex than previously thought, with evidence suggesting that they were used in various forms before their popularization on mobile phones in the late 1990s.

Data-to-paper is a framework that uses AI to perform end-to-end scientific research, from raw data to human-verifiable papers. It guides users through the process, allowing for transparent and verifiable manuscripts with programmatically linked results and methodology.

Egyptologists A. Lucas and Sir Flinders Petrie disagreed on how ancient Egyptians drilled granite, with Lucas suggesting loose quartz sand abrasive and Petrie proposing fixed points of emery. The authors' experimental analysis of a drilled granite lid from an Old Kingdom sarcophagus suggests that fixed abrasives or those in a watery slurry or lubricant produced concentric cutting lines, ...

A new study finds that school-based mindfulness programs do not significantly benefit adolescents' mental health or well-being. The study reanalyzed data from 22 trials and found that most results were statistically non-significant, raising questions about the value of these programs as a universal prevention approach.

A solar storm caused GPS and precision farming functionality to break down, affecting farmers' ability to plant crops accurately. The outage has highlighted the vulnerability of modern tractors to satellite disruptions, which experts have warned about for years.

The Christian Science Monitor is a unique publication that forces readers out of their comfort zones, leading to meaningful insights and life changes. Despite being perceived as "boring" or "earnest", the Monitor's mission is to bridge divides and show people they are capable of more than they realize.

The author argues that implementing a language in itself can be beneficial, as it allows for fine-grained control and eliminates the need for a "systems" language. They propose techniques such as lazy allocation and inline caches to overcome challenges like infinite recursion and garbage collection.

Based on 55 personality questions, Our AI (PAS) can find 350+ of personality descriptors about you.The more you use the system, the more it understands.

The author implemented a simple copying semispace garbage collector for their virtual instruction set architecture, focusing on making the collector operation more obvious to debug and test. They used various techniques such as redundant data comparison, stack dumping, and heap traversal to verify the correctness of the collector and improve its testing coverage.

Gopher, despite being considered outdated, still has a role to play in today's internet as it offers a structured and organized way of accessing information, making it easy to navigate and create content. Gopher can coexist with the Web, offering an alternative for low-computing-power environments and providing a cost-effective solution for hosting and downloading content.

The "water reserves" problem involves finding the depth of water at each point in a mountain range, given an array representing the landscape's altitude. K, a language with functional characteristics, can be used to solve this problem efficiently and concisely due to its vector-oriented programming approach.

Makext is a collection of Makefile extensions that simplify and enhance GNU Make functionality. It provides features like help messages, environment variable loading, and program assurance to improve task running.

Roger Corman, a legendary B-movie director and producer, has died at the age of 98. He was known for producing hundreds of low-budget films, discovering future industry stars like Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, and keeping the B-movie market alive almost single-handedly.

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Incora Health, a startup founded in 2022, plans to sell earrings tracking body temperature and menstrual cycle. The decline of startups in America has led economists to worry about the country's innovation reputation and productivity growth.

Henry R. Birks provides an overview of historic furniture styles, covering periods from Tudor to Sheraton, highlighting key characteristics and influences on English craftsmen. The article aims to help students understand these styles for their City and Guilds examination, providing a framework for studying period designs and their evolution over time.

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The author emphasizes the importance of using calendars to manage time effectively, converting time into space and making every task, including meetings and personal activities, a calendar entry. The author also stresses the need to measure how wrong one's time estimates are and incorporate a calibration multiplier to ensure that plans are feasible and realistic.

The author discusses their experience with Quora, a platform that has gone downhill and now generates absurd questions using an AI prompt generator. The author argues that this strategy may be increasing engagement but is ultimately turning the platform into a meaningless waste of time.

The es6_maps package introduces a shorthand form of object creation in Elixir, allowing developers to create maps and structs with concise syntax. The package includes a formatting plugin that can convert existing code to the new syntax and also provides options for controlling the formatting style.

Jellyfin's major release 10.9.0 brings new features, improvements, and bugfixes, with key changes for administrative users and support drops for non-LTS Ubuntu releases and official RPM packages. The release includes trickplay live video scrubbing, multiple subtitle tracks, revamped admin dashboard UI, and numerous security fixes among other changes.

Charlieplexing is a technique used to access a large number of LEDs or switches using few tri-state logic wires from a microcontroller, allowing for efficient use of I/O pins. The method uses complementary LED pairs and diagonal wiring to enable unique addressability and lighting control, with applications in displays, keyboards, and touchscreens.

Rick Slayman, who received a genetically modified pig kidney at 62, has died two months after the procedure. His death was unexpected and his family took comfort in knowing his story inspired hope for others waiting for transplants.

A simulation of the Prague Astronomical Clock (Pražský Orloj), configurable for any location on Earth, with user-settable time.

The Lisp reader has three parts: lexical analysis, parsing, and printing. It takes a character string representation of a program, breaks it into tokens, and stores them as lists and symbols for evaluation.

The author argues that America is experiencing an "age of rage" due to various factors such as infantilism, coddling, and economic struggles, leading to increased anger and mistrust among citizens. The author also suggests that societal issues like low social trust, atomization, and winner-take-all markets contribute to feelings of resentment and anxiety among individuals who feel they are ...

The FCC clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit ISPs from speeding up certain applications or content. The final order explicitly prohibits ISPs from creating fast lanes for specific apps or categories of apps, degrading performance of other traffic.

Bitboys, a mysterious company in the graphics chip industry, has been developing innovative technology since its establishment in 1991, including the development of several graphics chips such as TR25201 and Glaze3D. Despite facing numerous challenges and setbacks, Bitboys continues to evolve and adapt, eventually shifting its focus to mobile solutions for PDAs and cell phones.

Song Maker, an experiment in Chrome Music Lab, is a simple way for anyone to make and share a song.

The study explores the role of tryptophan (Trp) networks in biological systems, particularly in protein structures such as microtubules (MTs), centrioles, and axons. The research finds that Trp networks can exhibit collective optical responses and superradiance enhancements, which are robust to thermal environments and structural disorder, suggesting potential biophotonic signaling mechanisms ...

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Hubble Network has successfully launched two satellites that can receive Bluetooth signals from Earth over 600 km away, enabling global coverage with reduced battery consumption and costs. The startup's technology allows existing Bluetooth devices to connect to its network without hardware modifications, with plans for further satellite launches.

A severe weather disaster in southern Brazil has sparked conspiracy theories, including claims that HAARP and jet trails are responsible for the catastrophe. Scientists attribute the disaster to climate change, but social media users are sharing discredited theories about government manipulation and secret programs.

Former entrepreneurs often face stigma and bias when seeking traditional employment, with recruiters less likely to interview them due to their unconventional work experiences. However, companies are starting to recognize the value that entrepreneurs can bring, such as out-of-the-box thinking and innovation, and are actively seeking to hire employees with these qualities.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG) has suspended its Production Design Initiative program due to historic industry changes and unprecedented unemployment among its members. The decision comes as IATSE renegotiates a new contract with the AMPTP amid concerns over health and pension benefits.

Scott's book on the history of computers highlights John Mauchly and Pres Eckert's contributions, but criticizes his weak technical understanding and reliance on previous errors. The author also disputes Scott's portrayal of events, including his treatment of Herman Goldstine, John von Neumann, and the BINAC computer.

The Apple Vision Pro's rendering technique, Variable Rasterization Rate (VRR), dynamically adjusts the resolution of each application on-the-fly, which can lead to blurry text and images at certain distances. The author argues that while the Vision Pro has more pixels than the Meta Quest 3, its low framebuffer resolution and lack of supersampling make it prone to mipmapping clarity losses, ...

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A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system can be built using PostgreSQL, pgvector, ollama, and Go code to answer questions based on existing knowledge bases. The system generates embeddings for documents and queries, retrieves the most relevant document, and uses Llama3 to generate a chat response.

Chuck E. Cheese's animatronic band, Munch's Make Believe Band, will be phased out at most locations by 2024, except for two remaining sites in LA and NY. The company is undergoing a transformation to adapt to changing consumer habits, with kids increasingly preferring screen-based entertainment over traditional animatronics.

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Researchers at UC San Diego and Algenesis developed bio-based plastic that breaks down naturally without forming microplastics. The material can be composted by microbes in under seven months, making it a sustainable alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics.

The Carrington Event, a massive geomagnetic storm, occurred on September 1-2, 1859, causing widespread disruptions to telegraph systems and aurora displays visible around the world. The event was likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun colliding with Earth's magnetosphere and has been estimated to have cost up to $2.6 trillion in damages if it were to occur today.

The cold-storage industry, also known as the "cold chain", is expected to experience significant growth due to changing consumer eating habits, global demographic shifts, and pandemic preparedness. The expansion of refrigerated warehouses will play a crucial role in reducing global carbon emissions and adapting to climate change while meeting increasing demand for food infrastructure.

Roger Corman, known as the "King of the B's", has died at 98. He was a prolific producer and director who churned out low-budget genre films, launching the careers of many notable filmmakers and actors, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jack Nicholson.

The author explores the phenomenon of pareidolia, where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, and its potential role in the creation of Ice Age cave art. Through experiments using virtual reality, the author finds that participants' unconscious eye movements correspond to areas on cave walls used by ancient artists, suggesting that pareidolia may have played a role in shaping their ...

This ArchiePlex form can locate files on Anonymous FTP sites in the Internet. Text to search for: There are several types of search: The results can be sorted This is a web frontend interface for searching the Archie server at The Serial Port. The form and cgi processing is based on Archieplex, written by Martijn Koster. hits since May 8 2024

The production and use of bicycles have become less sustainable over time due to changes in manufacturing processes, materials, and design, which have increased energy consumption and emissions. However, even with these challenges, bicycles remain a more environmentally friendly mode of transportation than cars or other options.

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Germany considers reintroducing conscription for all 18-year-olds to boost troop numbers amid Russian aggression. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius plans to go public with options by June, despite opposition from Chancellor Olaf Scholz and junior coalition partners.

The airline industry has been notorious for nickel-and-diming customers with hidden fees and poor customer service, but recently, Congress passed a law requiring automatic refunds when flights are canceled. This victory shows that it's possible to govern against corporate power and highlights the importance of good political leadership, smart journalism, and policy knowledge in creating ...

The parallel garbage collector for Steel Bank Common Lisp reclaims memory and allows bump allocation without moving objects, using a mark-region heap based on Immix. It scales with multiple cores, outperforming the copying collector with two or more cores.

The nuclear industry's Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are more expensive and have delays, making them uneconomical alternatives to large reactors. The cost of generating electricity from SMRs is around AUD$400-600 per megawatt-hour, compared to AUD$100 for wind and solar power.

Susan Apel and Keith Irwin, both 71, are struggling to find a suitable one-floor condo after deciding to downsize from their four-bedroom house due to health issues. They're finding it difficult to afford homes in their desired location due to high prices driven by city dwellers fleeing Covid.

The Stack Exchange data dump contains user-contributed content from various sites, including posts, users, votes, comments, badges, tags, post history, and post links. The data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and requires attribution with a discreet text blurb or hyperlink to the original question on the source site.

SoftBank Group's subsidiary Arm enters AI chip development, planning to launch products in 2025. The company aims to transform into an AI powerhouse with investments in data centers, robots, and power generation.

Japan's Lost Generation, who missed the window for securing regular employment due to the "employment ice age" of the 1990s and 2000s, will struggle with inadequate pension benefits as they approach retirement. The government has proposed measures to address this issue, but experts doubt whether these steps are sufficient to prevent a pension crisis and ensure a minimum level of economic ...

The WikimediaUI Dark mode gadget enables dark mode on modern browsers, with limitations due to its implementation. To set up the gadget on your wiki, create specific pages and add code to MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.

President Biden's goal to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030 has been slow, with only 7 operational stations across four states. The sluggish build-out may hinder the transition to electric cars as new emissions rules require more electric and hybrid vehicles on the road.

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A 34-year-old woman was found living in a rooftop sign of a Michigan grocery store, where she had set up a small space with furniture and appliances. She was told to leave without incident and the store will help her retrieve her belongings at a later time.

The user provides commands to check bootstrapping success, list loaded models, and load models with maximum GPU acceleration. The commands include options for JSON output and confirmation prompts.

Discover Cake, the company transforming your Apple Watch into a playful, distraction-free phone alternative. Come see what we're cooking up!

Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.

The user demonstrates AI-powered drug discovery by generating embedding vectors for molecular structures using the Radient molecule_vectorizer and searching for alternatives to Ibuprofen. The results show that several drugs, including Loxoprofen, Naproxen, and Mandelic acid, have similar properties to Ibuprofen due to their analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.

Alibaba Cloud's Yitian 710 processor outperforms rival Arm-based chips and Intel's Xeon Platinum in database tasks. The study found it has advantages like newer Arm ISA and DDR5 RAM, but lags behind in OLAP, ML inference, and blockchain tasks due to unoptimized software.

The author struggles with choosing sustainable clothing options due to concerns about plastic pollution, but prefers athleisure wear for its comfort and fit. They acknowledge that buying used or natural fiber clothes may not look good on them, leading to feelings of guilt and frustration over their choices.

The user discusses temporal and action properties, specifically safety and liveness properties, using Recife/TLC to describe interactions between states. They explore examples of monotonic clock behavior, eventually reaching hour 10, and fairness issues to guarantee repeated behavior.

Michael Garrett suggests that the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) could be a "great filter" preventing civilizations from becoming space-faring, and warns that humanity's reliance on AI could lead to its downfall. He calls for robust regulatory frameworks to guide AI development and emphasizes the need for humanity to become a multiplanetary society as soon as possible.

Using a notepad for app development can be beneficial due to its minimalist nature, which forces focus on core code and fosters clarity of thought. The limitations of a notepad can also encourage creativity, problem-solving skills, and a more disciplined approach to testing and debugging.

A GitHub project called N64Recomp allows for recompiled PC ports of Nintendo 64 games with improved graphics and quality-of-life features, making it possible to play classic games like The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on PC. This tool is a game-changer for preservationists and fans of the Nintendo 64 library, allowing them to play old classics in an ideal state without requiring complete ...

Solar storms have disrupted GPS systems, forcing many farmers to stop planting crops as a crucial deadline approaches. The "extremely compromised" systems affected tractors' accuracy, causing issues for farmers who continued planting during the outages.

Shalom Maholo, a 22-year-old Malawian woman, creates a new climbing route in Mulundi, making history as the first Malawian woman to do so. She and other volunteers aim to develop Malawi's climbing scene, despite challenges such as lack of equipment and extreme weather events.