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Before Helen Keller's teacher arrived, she lived in a world without consciousness, unable to think or feel emotions. Through her education and experiences, she developed self-awareness and learned to understand others' emotions and thoughts, gradually constructing her own world of men and God.

Large Language Model (LLM) GPT4 outperforms human analysts and state-of-the-art ML models in predicting earnings changes from financial statements, generating useful narrative insights. The LLM's predictions yield higher Sharpe ratio and alphas than other models, suggesting its potential for central role in decision-making.

The article discusses the concept of collisions in physics simulations, focusing on rigid body physics and the collision resolution phase, where two bodies' velocities are adjusted to prevent penetration. The author explains how to determine if two bodies are moving towards or away from each other using the dot product and relative normal velocity, providing a formal definition of what ...

The author has developed a custom real-time renderer that uses small voxels to create a distinctive visual style reminiscent of classic 90's 3D games, allowing for the creation of environments with blocky three-dimensional details. The renderer can be used to add voxel-like surface detailing to static triangle meshes, making it possible to create retro-style environments without having to use ...

Mp3tag is a batch tag editor that supports various audio formats and online database lookups to automatically gather tags and cover art. It offers additional features like renaming files, replacing characters, exporting reports, and more, with regular updates introducing new functionality and fixes.

The author created Bunnix, a Unix-like operating system for x86_64 targets, as a recreational project and spent 27 days working on it. The system has some limitations, such as no USB support, but includes features like ext4 filesystem support and a virtual terminal.

Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered search engine that uses advanced machine learning algorithms to refine results and provide clear answers with sources cited. It has various features, including image and video search, focus modes, and local LLMs support, and can be installed using Docker or without it.

A Google Cloud incident caused UniSuper's GCVE Private Cloud to be deleted due to an inadvertent misconfiguration by Google operators, but was recovered with the customer's help and data backups. Google has taken steps to ensure this incident doesn't happen again, including deprecating the internal tool and reviewing all GCVE deployments.

The article discusses denoising diffusion models, which are a type of generative model that can be used for image generation, video generation, and other tasks. The model works by iteratively adding noise to an input image and then reversing the process to generate a new image, with the goal of learning a distribution that can generate novel samples.

Spot is a cross-platform, reactive GUI toolkit for Go that provides a consistent API and allows developers to build native GUI applications with ease. It uses native widgets where available, supports various UI controls, and offers customization options through its use of hooks and custom components.

Kabosu, the Japanese Shiba Inu behind the "Doge" meme, has died at 18 due to leukemia and liver disease. Her owner, Atsuko Sato, thanked fans for their support and expressed gratitude for loving Kabosu over the years.

The Samsung WB850F camera's firmware contains a function called DevHTTPResponseStart that checks for specific conditions to detect a WiFi hotspot, including HTTP redirects and cookie settings. By reverse-engineering this function, it was possible to identify the conditions required to pass the hotspot detection and develop a patch to circumvent it, allowing the camera to connect to any WiFi network.

Natural gradient descent, a second-order method, can have similar computational complexity to first-order methods when using analog hardware. A new hybrid digital-analog algorithm for training neural networks exploits thermodynamic properties of an analog system at equilibrium and outperforms state-of-the-art digital methods on classification and fine-tuning tasks.

Google's AI overviews have been hallucinating answers to user queries, providing incorrect information on topics such as pizza and US presidents' religions. The company is taking action to improve its systems, but users are concerned about the lack of trust in Google Search results due to these inaccuracies.

The method involves computing four items: Century-Item, Year-Item, Month-Item, and total. The total is then corrected for Leap Years and divided by 7 to determine the day of the week.

The ESP32 Wi-Fi stack reverse engineering project aims to build an open-source MAC layer, enabling features like 802.11s mesh networking and improving code auditability. The team has started analyzing the hardware initialization process, which involves RF calibration and setting frequency and power levels, but notes that it's complex and may not be fully implemented soon.

LuaRT is a free, open source, Windows programming framework for Lua

Google's AI-generated search results are struggling to distinguish between news and satire, with searches returning false information. A recent poll by Harris for The Guardian found that nearly three in five Americans believe the US is in an economic recession, despite GDP growth and low unemployment rates.

The Apple M4 chip uses ARMv9 architecture, which supports Scalable Matrix Extension (SME), allowing it to run complex tasks efficiently. This upgrade gives the M4 a significant performance lead over competitors, including the Snapdragon X Elite and M3 Pro.

The author and his team converted an old Cisco 7609 router into a beer tap, using optical fibers to mimic the original LED lights and creating a custom software to control the device's behavior. The project required overcoming various technical challenges, including electrical noise issues and designing custom parts, but ultimately resulted in a unique and functional beer tap that was ...

Spotify is discontinuing its Car Thing device, which connects to car dashboards and allows drivers to listen to Spotify, and will not offer refunds or trade-ins. Owners are begging the company to open-source the device instead of sending it to landfills, citing concerns about e-waste and wasted money.

The author argues that microservices are overhyped and often introduce unnecessary complexity, overhead, and challenges, whereas modular monoliths can achieve similar benefits without these drawbacks. By focusing on proper modularization, teams can avoid the pitfalls of microservices and build more maintainable and scalable systems.

Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, died at 53 from cancer complications. His family and friends mourned his passing, praising his creative genius and generosity.

The.NES project allows developers to write NES games and programs using C# code, which is then transpiled into 6502 machine code that can run on an NES emulator. The project includes a reference assembly with metadata for functions like pal_col, which are implemented as jump tables to actual subroutine implementations in the generated machine code.

The Automated Customer Assets Transfer System (ACATS) is a complex system that facilitates the transfer of assets between brokerages, and while it has greatly simplified this process, there are still many quirks and potential issues that can arise.

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The blue field entoptic phenomenon appears as tiny bright dots moving quickly along undulating pathways in the visual field, especially when looking into bright blue light. The dots are caused by white blood cells moving in capillaries in front of the retina, and their movement synchronizes with heartbeats.

Tail recursion is a technique where the recursive call is the last thing a function does before returning its result, allowing for stack-safe and efficient computation. Continuations and trampolines are used to implement tail recursion in languages that do not support it natively, such as Python and Clojure, by delaying function calls until they can be safely executed without consuming ...

Arthur Erickson founded Hylio, a company that builds crop-spraying drones for farmers, after discovering drones during his college studies. The company has grown to employ over 40 people and has expanded its business to multiple countries, with Erickson now focusing on managing his team and developing new products.

Helicopters with giant antenna arrays conduct magnetic and electromagnetic surveys to gather data on Earth's magnetic field and underground composition. This technique helps geologists and archaeologists discover hidden structures, aquifers, and minerals by measuring variations in the magnetic field and conductivity of the soil.

The author shares their favorite essays on software development, including topics such as understanding complex systems, choosing boring technology, and designing for disposability. These essays have had a significant impact on the author's approach to engineering and have helped them develop a philosophy of tool design that prioritizes simplicity, maintainability, and user experience.

A Google AI app generated recipes for disaster, including one that called for non-toxic glue on pizza and another that suggested cooking with gasoline. The app's limitations and potential dangers were discussed, including its ability to "misrepresent itself" and the need for critical thinking in evaluating its output.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to print bioelectronic fibers onto living surfaces, such as human skin or plant leaves, using a technique inspired by spider silk. The fibers are imperceptible and can be used for continuous health monitoring, virtual reality applications, and environmental monitoring, with potential benefits including reduced waste and emissions.

The LZW compression algorithm, used in GIF files, compresses data by identifying repeated patterns and replacing them with shorter codes. The algorithm involves initializing a string table, building it as it compresses or decompresses data, and using special codes to handle cases where the compressor or decompressor needs to add new strings to the table.

The article presents an accessible brain-computer interface device, ardEEG, which converts Arduino UNO R4 WiFi into a device that measures EEG, EMG, and ECG signals with 8 channels. The device demonstrates satisfactory noise levels and accuracy for use in applied tasks and successfully detects alpha brain waves.

Google’s AI overview recommends eating rocks This is not satire, try googling it. Source seems to be an article.

The Windows Security Center (WSC) service allows antivirus software to notify Windows about other installed antivirus programs, disabling Windows Defender. The user reverse-engineered Avast's wsc_proxy.exe service to add their own functionality and made it autorun after reboot, but requires keeping the binaries on disk.

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis announced plans to use artificial intelligence to turn around the newspaper's financial struggles, despite already facing controversy over his past involvement in a hacking scandal. The move comes as NewsCorp, Lewis' former employer, announces a deal with OpenAI to use its content, sparking concerns about the impact on the media industry.

The text appears to be a jumbled mix of characters and phrases, including accuracy calculations, file names, and information processing. It lacks coherent meaning or structure due to excessive use of special characters and lack of punctuation.

Harold Halibut is a narrative game by Slow Bros that takes place on a city-sized spaceship, Fedora I, where players explore and interact with the world's inhabitants. The game's art direction was inspired by mid-century Avant-Garde architecture and features lovingly crafted details, including handmade props and costumes, to create an immersive experience.

Google's AI Overviews feature generated an inaccurate response suggesting adding glue to pizza sauce, based on an old Reddit comment. The feature has also produced other incorrect answers, including mixing up the Tower of London and Big Ben, highlighting potential pitfalls with generative AI engines.

A homemade planimeter made from a soft drink can measures area by rotating in proportion to the shape's area, with accuracy improved by PTFE tape and blue-tack weight. The device requires two hands to operate, tracing an outline with one hand while guiding the pointer with the other, providing consistent results despite its simplicity.

Looking Glass introduced two new spatial displays, a 32-inch desktop model and a 16-inch OLED variant, designed for group 3D visualization without headsets. The displays are priced affordably, with the OLED model costing $4,000 (limited time), and support holographic images, videos, and real-time applications through plugins and an SDK.

Slack's terms of service allow it to use customer data to train AI models, raising concerns about data privacy and security. Self-hosting collaboration software can minimize these risks, and Zulip offers both self-hosting and cloud hosting options with a focus on protecting customer data.

Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker behind "Super Size Me," died from cancer complications. He was known for his documentaries on fast food and marketing tactics, as well as his personal struggles with sexual misconduct and alcoholism.

Serverlessmaps deployment involves multiple steps, including installing dependencies, compiling the Planetiler build profile, and deploying AWS infrastructure. The process also requires generating PMTiles files and uploading them to S3, as well as customizing parameters for deployment via environment variables.

Researchers found that 52% of ChatGPT's programming answers are incorrect, with many human programmers preferring AI-generated responses despite their flaws. The study highlights the need for caution when relying on AI platforms like ChatGPT, which can produce inaccurate and inconsistent answers due to its polite and formal tone.

Author shares discovery about using Boston's obscenity laws to gain free advertising for books. He explains how authors can write frank and honest passages about love and courtship to get arrested by Boston police, leading to national attention and book sales.

Minnesota has repealed two laws that restricted cities and towns from building their own broadband networks, allowing them to improve, construct, and maintain facilities for internet access. The change brings Minnesota in line with other states that have dropped restrictions on municipal broadband, leaving 16 states still imposing significant barriers to community-owned networks.

Kabosu, the dog behind the "doge" meme, has died at 18 after enjoying internet fame. Her owner thanked fans for their support and expressed gratitude for Kabosu's happiness, which made her the happiest owner in the world.

Software designers should respect habituation and avoid using warnings that can be ignored or dismissed, as they lead to mistakes and frustration. Instead, implementing an "undo" feature allows users to recover from accidental actions and makes computing more humane and less frustrating.

Microsoft's Windows Recall feature takes screenshots of users' active screens every few seconds and allows them to search and retrieve past screenshots using AI. However, experts have raised concerns about the feature's potential privacy risks, including storing sensitive information and lacking adequate controls for non-Microsoft browsers.

Scrum is an incomplete framework that requires supplementation to work, and its perfection does not guarantee success. The focus should be on introducing new practices and mastering Scrum, rather than adhering to the Scrum Guide or trying to perfect it.

The cardboard box, a ubiquitous object in modern life, has become a symbol of globalized trade and commerce, with its production and recycling having significant environmental impacts. Despite efforts to increase recycling rates, small contaminants like grease and tape can still hinder the process, highlighting the need for more effective waste management practices.

You migrated to a new MacBook and spent an hour setting it up, installing VLC and Sublime with specific settings and extensions. You also reflected on the experience, noting that burnout can make you unaware of problems until they become severe, like your old computer's battery pressure causing the E key to pop off.

Red Lobster's bankruptcy and closure of nearly 100 locations was caused by a private equity firm's asset-stripping technique, which sold off the chain's real estate to finance its purchase. This move led to increased rent costs for Red Lobster, crippling the company and resulting in mass layoffs and devastating its fans.

ICQ, a popular messaging app launched in 1996, will shut down on June 26th after over 100 million users used it to communicate worldwide. The app's decline began after being purchased by Mail.ru in 2010 and VK recommends switching to its own Messenger and Workspace apps.

The student syndrome is a common phenomenon where people delay doing tasks until right before the deadline, leading to issues such as missed deadlines, low-quality work, and interpersonal conflicts. To avoid this behavior, individuals can identify their causes for procrastination and use anti-procrastination techniques such as breaking tasks into steps, setting intermediate deadlines, and ...

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Game development differs from software development in that games are often about being fun, making it difficult to specify and test game mechanics. Unit tests may not be as effective in game development due to unpredictable changes in assumptions and mechanics, leading to a lower adoption rate compared to other software disciplines.

Boeing's 777 aircraft have a potentially disastrous flaw with poor electrical insulation near fuel tanks, which could cause fires or explosions. The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a $14 million fix that would require operators to install bonding and grounding components on affected planes over the next 60 months.

OpenAI faces controversy over AI safety, employee departures, and nondisclosure agreements. Former executives and experts criticize CEO Sam Altman's approach to building artificial general intelligence before ensuring its safety, citing potential risks to humanity.

Google's response to unusual prompts, such as "how many Muslim presidents has the US had?", was that they are rare and not fair. The conversation highlights concerns about AI's ability to provide accurate information and its potential for spreading misinformation, with some users jokingly suggesting eating rocks as a way to extract minerals.

The National Hurricane Center forecasts an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season with 17-25 storms, including at least 8 hurricanes and 4-7 major hurricanes, due to abnormally warm ocean temperatures driven by climate change. The increased activity poses a significant risk to tens of millions of Americans in the eastern half of the country from flooding and damaging winds.

Photographer Phillip Buehler, who captured the death of the American mall in a 2022 photo series, has a new exhibition of pictures from the last 50 years that trace the often forgotten history of the islands surrounding Manhattan

Factorio's new redo feature allows players to re-issue previously undone orders, and various improvements have been made to the undo system. The game also now includes latency hiding for driving vehicles, which predicts future game states to hide delays and improve gameplay.

The article discusses the integration of binary embedding within the CLIP framework to optimize multimodal retrieval and ranking performance, exploring different binary quantization functions and training methodologies. The results show that incorporating binary quantization into the training phase can improve outcomes, with sigmoid activation consistently outperforming tanh activation across ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, set to open later this year, will be the world's largest museum dedicated to ancient Egyptian civilization, featuring over 50,000 artifacts including treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb and two boats belonging to Pharaoh Khufu. The museum aims to promote Egyptology research and decolonization by empowering local academics and providing state-of-the-art facilities for ...

I uploaded 11 years (97k Hours of transcribed audio, and over 3k days of entries) of my Day One Journal data yesterday to OpenAI's GPT-4o. Last night at the… | 30 comments on LinkedIn

Shift left testing aims to move testing earlier in the development process, addressing scaling problems with software development life cycles by integrating testing activities throughout the process. By shifting testing left, developers can run integration or end-to-end tests quickly, ensuring code quality and confidence before pushing changes to QA teams.

The text describes common functions and datasets for testing optimization algorithms, grouped by physical properties and shapes. It provides MATLAB and R implementations, with contact information for questions or comments at [email protected].

Oxide Computer Company, a startup building a new type of server, offers energy-efficient servers that occupy 33% less space and use less power than traditional racks, with integrated software to manage elastic infrastructure. The company's custom-designed rack and server aim to provide an alternative to cloud providers for companies running large-scale infrastructure on-premises for ...

The author argues that Emacs, despite its initial complexity and imperfections, offers unparalleled programmability and customization options, making it a powerful investment for programmers who want to tailor their text editor to their needs. The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up Emacs with various packages and keystrokes, aiming to help readers become proficient in ...

Helix now supports RAG, allowing users to upload documents and perform RAG from the homepage. The default Learn mode is now RAG, which is faster than fine-tuning and better for retrieving specific facts, while fine-tuning is better for answering general questions.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a thermophotovoltaic device that converts heat into electricity with an efficiency of 44% at 1435°C, potentially enabling practical use on the grid. The device uses infrared photons to generate electricity and could be used as a passive energy storage solution for intermittent renewable energy sources like solar and wind power.

Kobo's Clara Colour is a color ereader that combines user-friendly interface with quality hardware, beating Kindle to the punch and offering a premium reading experience. While it may not be perfect, with some minor drawbacks such as noise in white spaces and slightly lower clarity, the addition of color makes it worth the $10 price hike over its predecessor.

A remote access app called pcTattletale, used by hotels to monitor employees, has been leaking screenshots of guest information to the internet due to a security flaw. The app captures screenshots every few seconds and contains sensitive information such as names, reservation details, and partial payment card numbers.

After having children, the author had to work smarter not harder due to limited time, focusing on one task at a time and minimizing context switching. They also learned to prioritize progress over perfection and take advantage of small chunks of time for work.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a tensor network approach that solves real-world neutron transport equations, achieving world-record compression of memory and demonstrating efficiency and accuracy in solving partial differential equations. The team's method uses data science and machine learning to break the "curse of dimensionality" and has potential applications ...

The Borwein integrals, discovered by David and Jonathan Borwein in 2001, appear to converge to π/2 but suddenly break down when introducing the sinc(x/15) factor. This surprising behavior astonishes mathematically educated readers who mentally extrapolate the sequence without realizing its fundamental change.

Fire Prevention Week encourages people to respond immediately to smoke and CO alarms, with special considerations for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. The CPSC urges everyone to create an escape plan, ensure working smoke alarms, and practice regular fire safety guidelines to avoid injury and death.

The University of California's recent pay increases for teaching assistants have led to some instructors earning less than their TAs, causing frustration and resentment among lecturers who feel undervalued. The union representing UC lecturers is pushing for higher pay and better compensation, citing the principle that instructors with Ph.D.s should be paid more than graduate students with ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation into Waymo's autonomous vehicle software after receiving reports of unexpected moves leading to crashes. The agency has added nine more incidents, including collisions with gates and parked vehicles, and is concerned about increased crash risk.

The families of four Marines who died in a 2022 MV-22 Osprey crash filed a federal lawsuit against Boeing, Bell Textron, and Rolls Royce, alleging that the companies made "intentionally" or "recklessly false statements" about the plane's safety. The lawsuit claims that the companies delivered components they knew did not meet government specifications and failed to disclose information about ...

The author argues that there is no single "Common Lisp" language, but rather a collection of languages with different features and styles, including CLtL, CLOS, generics, and others. The author provides examples of these different languages and their unique characteristics, concluding that it's misleading to refer to Common Lisp as a single entity.

OpenAI's use of Scarlett Johansson's voice in their AI system, "Sky", without her consent has sparked controversy and raised questions about the ethics of using celebrity voices in AI technology. The incident has also highlighted concerns about data privacy, intellectual property rights, and the potential for deepfakes and other forms of digital manipulation.

Facebook suffered no loss in users after the implementation of the Online News Act in 2023

A "cosmic glitch" has been discovered, where gravity appears to be 1% weaker at large scales than predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. The discovery could help explain some of the universe's greatest mysteries and potentially resolve conflicts between observations and predictions, but more research is needed to confirm its existence.

A total order is defined on SubspaceId with a least element, where each SubspaceId has a successor and no other Id is between it. PossiblyAuthorisedEntry mappings combine encoded entry, token, and payload into a single bytestring for secure transfer and decryption.

with the impending merger between IBM and Hashicorp, both OpenTofu and OpenBao exist as alternatives. Has an alternative to Packer been developed or proposed as part of the evacuation process from Hashicorp?

Redis has changed its license, making it no longer open-source under OSI definition, and Valkey is a new Linux Foundation project that continues Redis' code-base and functionality. To move from Redis to Valkey, users can install valkey-compat-redis package to transfer data and configuration over to Valkey with minimal disruption.

A CBS News investigation found that county sheriffs are three times more lethal than city police, with fatal police violence increasingly happening in small town America. Despite chronic misconduct and oversight failures, most cases go unreported, making patterns of abuse harder to detect and stop.

The playbook discusses the future of AI adoption in enterprises, highlighting the shift from service-dominant workflows to software-dominant workflows and the importance of workflow capture, business model advantage, and moats. It also explores how AI agents can rebundle work into software, creating opportunities for horizontal expansion and cross-subsidization, and outlines two foundational ...

Valve's Steam gaming platform does not allow users to transfer their digital game libraries after death, citing non-transferable accounts and games. However, some legal experts argue that this could be challenged under EU or national laws, potentially leading to interesting court cases and changes in digital inheritance practices.

Thomas Midgley Jr., a chemical engineer, invented tetraethyl lead to solve engine knocking in car engines and CFCs for refrigeration, but both inventions had devastating consequences on human health and the environment. Despite his contributions being hailed as heroic at the time, Midgley's legacy is now viewed as one of environmental harm, with ongoing effects from lead poisoning and ozone ...

You were hesitant to release a pre-built Docker image due to the complexity of licenses involved. To address this, you created a LICENSE.third-party file and used pip-licenses to generate per-package license files for installed packages.

New technologies create opportunities for founders who get in early, such as app stores, online payments, and the web. AI is now that moment, and those who stay informed and adapt will find opportunities to solve previously unsolvable problems.

Spot is a cross-platform, reactive GUI toolkit for Go that provides a consistent API and allows developers to build native GUI applications with ease. It uses native widgets where available, supports various UI controls, and offers customization options through its use of hooks and custom components.