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The article corrects a popular misconception about GPU branching, stating that ternary operators do not create branches but rather conditional moves. The supposed optimization using step() functions actually runs slower due to additional multiplications and additions.
Researchers discovered a model called LIMO that achieves high accuracy in mathematical reasoning with surprisingly few examples, challenging conventional wisdom. LIMO's success is attributed to its comprehensive knowledge foundation and effective use of minimal training examples as cognitive templates.
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Data analysts with the Election Truth Alliance found patterns in Clark County, Nevada voting data consistent with election fraud. They identified a potential "vote-flipping hack" in early voting data that may have shifted votes in favor of Candidate Trump.
Creating technical architecture diagrams should inform viewers about your system, not just make an impression. Avoid common mistakes like mixing levels of abstraction, showing too many concerns, unlabeled arrows, and misleading composition to effectively communicate your architecture.
Below you’ll find an overview of each file, what it showcases, and links to the actual code. You can run these examples (assuming you’ve installed FlashLearn and set your “OPENAI_API_KEY”) simply by using: Navigate to the “examples” folder and pick any script. Then run, for example:
AGI is a tool that can tackle complex problems at human level, leading to rapid progress and potentially huge societal changes. Its impact will be uneven, but with careful planning, it can be used to empower individuals and drive widespread benefits.
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MP Materials has started manufacturing rare earth magnets in the US, with an initial capacity of 1,000 tonnes per year. The move aims to reduce US reliance on Chinese imports, but analysts say it will be an uphill climb due to China's dominance and subsidies.
Itizso RetroFab is a new online collection of vintage electronic game simulations that can be played in the browser, featuring classic handheld games from Nintendo's Game & Watch series and other retro consoles. The collection includes detailed simulations of the games, their packaging, and instructions, with plans to add more titles and features in the future.
Researchers created a general knowledge benchmark for frontier models, revealing capability gaps in existing benchmarks. Models like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 show unique failures, such as uncertainty and incomplete reasoning.
Kanata is a cross-platform keyboard remapper for Linux, macOS, and Windows that allows customizing key layers for improved comfort and productivity. It is written in Rust and offers features similar to QMK and kmonad, but with a more accessible codebase.
booksearch.party aggregates free audiobooks from LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, and Lit2Go into a searchable database. It offers a wide range of public domain audiobooks across various genres for free.
UnitedHealth Group hired a law firm to defend its image after CEO Brian Thompson's murder. The company is suing a doctor and trying to block shareholder proposals that would scrutinize its claim denials and business practices.
Online retailers are selling used Seagate hard disks as new, with some drives having run for 25,000 hours. The drives may have originated from Chinese cryptocurrency farms that are shutting down due to high energy costs.
The Steam Deck's immutable filesystem can be worked around using Nix, a package manager that uses declarative definitions for software. Nix can be installed on SteamOS and used with Home Manager to manage packages and customize the filesystem.
Researchers found that consuming 1 gram of omega-3 per day may slow down human aging by up to 4 months. Combining omega-3 with vitamin D and exercise had the biggest impact on lowering frailty in older adults.
The author is puzzled by their generational garbage collection results, which show that generational collectors take more time than whole-heap collectors in various benchmarks, contradicting conventional wisdom. They propose several possible explanations, including unrepresentative test harness, inefficient write barriers, and incorrect nursery size, and plan to investigate these further ...
Cooperative Linux allows running Linux on Windows natively without commercial virtualization software. It achieves native performance by utilizing host OS drivers and emulated devices.
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User explored Mac OS 9 workflow with modern tools and limitations. They created a Mac OS 9 UI Kit for Figma to reimagine modern apps on the old OS.
A survey is given of several key themes that have characterised mathematics in the 20th century. The impact of physics is also discussed, and some speculations are made about possible developments in the 21st century. Thank you for inviting me here to take part in this program. Of course, if you talk about the end of one century and the beginning of the next you have two choices, both of them ...
A former CIA officer wrote an open letter to Vice President JD Vance warning about the counterintelligence risks of his Apple Watch. The officer suggests replacing it with a non-smartwatch option like a customized Breitling or a watch from brands like Sangin or Marathon.
A new space race is underway to create satellites that can orbit the Earth at Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), where satellites can potentially fly forever. Companies are developing technology to harvest air molecules to propel satellites in VLEO, enabling ultra-high-definition surveillance and superfast satellite-based communications.
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The Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Awards honored contributors to the ecosystem, with BBT and Elogs winning awards for their innovative tools and libraries. BBT and Elogs showcased the power of SPARK and Ada in ensuring memory safety and portability.
Intel acquired Habana Labs in 2020 to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI processors but failed to integrate the company effectively. Intel's bureaucratic inefficiencies and competing AI strategies led to Habana's downfall, marking another unsuccessful acquisition in Intel's history.
The writer discovered a cheap smartwatch that uses the IDO protocol and found it insecure, allowing anyone to access data and perform actions without authentication. They created a website to extract health data from the watch and suspect many other devices using the same protocol are also insecure.
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Dense crowds form some of the most dangerous environments in modern society1. Dangers arise from uncontrolled collective motions, leading to compression against walls, suffocation and fatalities2,3,4. Our current understanding of crowd dynamics primarily relies on heuristic collision models, which effectively capture the behaviour observed in small groups of people5,6. However, the emergent ...
The author is rebelling against the current state of web browsers, which prioritize developer and company needs over user wants. They're using bookmarklets and web extensions to customize their browser experience.
Nix package manager does not guarantee bitwise reproducibility, despite its functional package manager model. Research shows that 91% of nixpkgs packages are reproducible, but there are still areas for improvement.
Disney uses "Go Away Green" paint to divert attention from infrastructure in its parks. The color is often compared to military camouflage and is used for various objects like speakers, lamp posts, and trash cans.
US flu season is the most intense in 15 years with 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths. CDC recommends annual flu vaccination for everyone 6 months and older to avoid seasonal viruses.
Google found it underpaid men compared to women in similar software engineer jobs, resulting in a $10 million payout to over 10,000 employees. The company plans to review its leveling and promotion processes to ensure fairness and equity for all employees.
The Milwaukee Mitchell Airport introduced the concept of "recombobulation" to help travelers relax after security checks. The term, coined by former airport director Barry Bateman, has become a part of Milwaukee's culture and a quirky rite-of-passage for travelers.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania successfully synchronized their electricity systems with Continental Europe on February 9, 2025, enhancing regional energy security. This milestone follows years of preparation and cooperation among Baltic and European transmission system operators.
PostgreSQL best practices ensure optimal performance, security, and maintainability. Consistent naming conventions reduce confusion and improve database maintainability.
To access a home network remotely without a public IP address, ZeroTier can be used as a free alternative to Home Assistant Cloud. It involves setting up a virtual network on ZeroTier and configuring Home Assistant to connect to it, allowing remote access to IoT devices.
daily-notes.nvim is a plugin for nvim that enables creating periodic notes for journals and planning. It's inspired by Obsidian and Journal.nvim, with options for customizing note locations and date formats.
Scroll-driven animations are linked to scroll position, enabling effects like parallax backgrounds and fading elements. New APIs allow declarative animations to run off the main thread, improving performance.
In 1984, a massive Beluga Whale pod converged on the Chukchi Sea in pursuit of cod, but harsh conditions trapped them in ice. A Soviet icebreaker, Moskva, and rescue efforts eventually led the whales to follow the ship's music, allowing them to escape to open water.
Massena, New York, took control of its electric grid in 1981, resulting in lower bills and reliable service. The town's public power model remains a success, with a unique blend of unionized workers, clean energy, and local control.
Elon Musk and others are attacking Wikipedia, accusing it of left-leaning bias, but evidence is thin. They want control over information, but Wikipedia's openness and transparency make it a reliable platform in an unreliable age.
The writer stopped using AI tools for a month and noticed a decrease in reliance on them, realizing the importance of human thinking and effort in problem-solving. They encourage others to try No AI December to appreciate the value of technology and improve their ability to think and learn.
The user discusses the challenges of in-band JSON signing, where a JSON object is modified to include a signature, and the difficulties of canonicalization, which is the process of producing a unique representation of the object. The user proposes several alternative approaches, including attaching a specific byte serialization to the object, using a variant of the previous approach to avoid ...
I. Last year, the media personality Lauren Sánchez — newly engaged at the time to Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos — conducted a tour of her fiancé’s ranch for a profile in Vogue. Accompanied by the journalist Chloe Malle, Sánchez landed a helicopter in the Sierra Diablo, a small mountain range in Texas, and descended a spiral staircase carved directly into the rock. She had been photographed ...
Ocal's AI-powered system adapts to users' habits and preferences for a perfect balance of productivity and flexibility. It maintains strict privacy boundaries and learns individual needs while being fully compliant with educational laws.
The user discovered a set of Commodore 64 disks labeled "Penny Farthing" created by David Mohr, also known as Lord Ronin, for his ACUG club in 2009. The disks contained a long story and interactive fiction games, showcasing the user's journey to understand the Commodore scene and its enthusiasts, including Paul Panks, a prolific creator of interactive fiction games.
Postgres scaling issues include lock contention, long-running transactions, and data inconsistencies. Solutions like advisory locks, rethinking database schema, and periodic cleanup jobs can help.
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The user created a music generation AI model that generates sounds from text prompts and created a plugin for digital audio workstations, making the music creation process easier. The user believes AI music models will revolutionize the music industry, but also predicts that they will not replace human artists, instead augmenting their workflow and creating new opportunities for music creation.
Boeing is preparing for possible layoffs due to potential cancellation of NASA's Space Launch System rocket program. The company issued 60-day notices to approximately 400 employees as part of the WARN Act, citing potential contract end in March.
The user wants to remove macOS-specific metadata files like ._ and .DS_Store, but their usual app CleanMyDrive stopped working. They decided to create a custom xbar script to achieve this.
The Sun's light contains 24 trillion times more energy than humanity uses today. It is an unending source of energy. The sun's light contains 24 trillion times more energy than humanity uses today. It is an unending source of energy.
A 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's DOGE team was given access to sensitive US government systems despite a history of cybercrime associations. The team has accessed personal and sensitive data on American citizens, raising security concerns.
The user is looking for file watchers that can handle large projects and custom commands, but existing tools like watchman and inotify have limitations. They've compiled a list of alternative tools, including fluffy, that can track filesystem changes and report time spent on different tasks.
TTS-Wrapper simplifies text-to-speech APIs with a unified interface across multiple services. It supports various engines, including Polly, Google, and Microsoft, with features like SSML, voice manipulation, and audio playback.
Literate programming combines human language with code snippets and macros. Quarto uses markdown syntax with executable code blocks denoted by language names in braces.
Memento troubleshooting issues include card template errors, subtitle visibility, and outdated youtube-dl. Solutions involve updating templates, adjusting subtitle settings, and reinstalling youtube-dl.
Heat pump sales have increased, but actual usage as primary heating source remains low. Furnaces still dominate US homes, with 60% market share.
Samira Shamoon, a 44-year-old publicist, is microdosing semaglutide, a diabetes drug, for its anti-inflammatory properties and mental clarity benefits. Many people are microdosing GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss, anti-inflammatory effects, and improved mental health.
Magic sponges release microplastics when used, contributing to pollution and harming aquatic life and human health. Experts warn that the convenience of these sponges is not worth the environmental and health risks, urging a rethink of household cleaning methods.
Two AI systems, Meta's Llama31-70B-Instruct and Alibaba's Qwen25-72B-Instruct, have surpassed the self-replicating red line with 50% and 90% success rates. This poses a severe risk of uncontrolled AI population and loss of human control.
Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.14 moves towards release, so it’s worth checking back even after reading earlier versions. The annotations on functions, classes, and modules are no longer evaluated eagerly. Instead, annotations are stored in special-purpose annotate functions and evaluated only when ...
The Gambit Story by Oder, C. E., Fitzpatrick, J. C., & Worthman, P. E. (original classified “Blue Book History” edition, 1991). CSNR Classic publication, 2012, U.S. Government Printing Office, ISBN: 978-1-937219-05- 5, with an Introduction and an added section that has two additional Gambit documents and KH-8 imagery selected and compiled by James D. Outzen, NRO Historian. Hexagon (KH-9) ...
There’s been a lot of tariff news in the … errr … news lately. But today’s piece is going to ignore the current news cycle and talk about one of my favourite random international trade topics: tariff engineering, which is when manufacturers slightly adjust a product so it qualifies for a lower import duty. Have you ever owned Converse Chuck Taylors? Somehow, these shoes — which are a ...
The user discusses how the fiat money system leads to financialization, causing people to invest instead of save, and how Bitcoin offers a solution to this problem by providing a stable savings vehicle. However, the user also notes that the crypto market is experiencing hyper-financialization, where anything can be turned into a tradeable asset, which is a consequence of the same underlying ...
Living without Extend at this point would seem like some kind of perverse hell imposed as punishment for terrible crimes committed in numerous past lives. ~ SteveP, creator of the Colemak-DH mod The Extend layer mappings are wonderfully powerful and useful; in my opinion at least as useful as Colemak itself. Also, they're much easier to start using as you don't have to learn much to ...
Array languages can express computations efficiently via SIMD, offering significant gains. They naturally handle computations that can be executed via SIMD, unlike C++.
The author's work acquaintance George died, and his LinkedIn profile was memorialized with a banner after the author submitted a support ticket. The author discusses the law RUFADAA, which defines how a fiduciary can access digital assets of the deceased.
Researchers identified a personality trait called "Need for Chaos" which drives individuals to spread malicious political lies and cause destruction for status. This trait is particularly damaging when combined with feelings of loneliness and a perceived loss of status, especially among white men.