A tutorial project called AutoGen Core uses AI to analyze GitHub repositories and create beginner-friendly tutorials explaining code. It uses Pocket Flow, a 100-line LLM framework, to crawl repositories and generate tutorials in various languages.
The author praises modern librarians as dangerous, yet gentle, educators who believe in access, stories, and people, and who can change the world through the right book. They are part educators, tech wizards, and myth-slayers who fight for a better tomorrow.
The scanner captures 4 photos in 1:24m with 0.167° x 0.18° resolution, stitching and cleanup taking 37s. It uses i2c-GPIO and has settings for baudrate, sampling frequency, and distance.
Synology's 2025 Plus models will require its own branded hard drives, limiting users to specific drives and features. This move is seen as a grab for extra margin dollars, hurting customers with limited capacity options and potential long-term drive availability concerns.
Claude Code is a command line tool for agentic coding that provides a flexible and customizable way to integrate Claude into coding workflows, but requires a learning curve and experimentation to find effective patterns. Successful patterns for using Claude Code include asking it to read relevant files, make a plan, implement a solution, and iterate until the desired result is achieved, with ...
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Companies are recruiting app developers to create botnets by injecting SDKs into their apps, which then use users' network bandwidth for aggressive AI web scraping. This business model should be stopped as it causes DDoS attacks and is considered malware.
A silent Google Play Services update will make Android devices more secure by automatically restarting locked devices after 3 days. This feature limits exposure to personal data and makes it harder to extract.
undercutf1 is a TUI application that displays live F1 timing data with customizable delay and allows for session replays. It supports various views, including Timing Tower, Race Control, Driver Tracker, and Tyre Stint, and can be configured using a config.json file or environment variables.
Researchers propose a method to diffuse frames at full fps-30 using 13B models on a 6GB laptop GPU, prioritizing important frames with more GPU resources. The "inverted anti-drifting sampling" method breaks causality for bi-directional sampling, suitable for image-to-video generation.
Addy Osmani's newsletter discusses the benefits and risks of "vibe coding" or AI-assisted development. It emphasizes the importance of human oversight and quality control to ensure maintainable and robust software.
A team of volunteers repaired a 1992 Galaxian3 arcade game at Fun World in Nashua, New Hampshire, fixing issues with the PSN PCBs and CRT projectors. The game is now operational, but further diagnosis is needed to resolve video sync issues with the LaserDisc player.
The author lets their son choose when to do math, making it a fun experience like play, not work. They emphasize numbers through games and everyday activities, nurturing his curiosity and love for learning.
User @jay_gridbach achieved a new world record in verifying the Goldbach Conjecture up to 4 quadrillion + 70 trillion. Gridbach, a grid computing system, enables users to contribute to the computation without login or app installation.
The author created a detailed map of British dialects, but acknowledges its limitations and imperfections due to the complex and nuanced nature of language. The map aims to show the diversity of English dialects within the UK, but cannot capture the full complexity of dialectal variations.
SSL.com failed to validate domains correctly using DCV method 3.2.2.4.14, issuing fake certificates for any MX hostname. SSL.com has disabled this method for investigation and will provide a report by April 21, 2025.
Researchers at Nagoya University discovered a sound technology that reduces motion sickness by stimulating the inner ear with a specific wavelength of sound. The technology, called "sound spice," is safe and effective, alleviating symptoms such as nausea and dizziness.
Joshua Rozells created a composite image of satellite trails in the night sky to highlight growing light pollution. His work echoes astronomers' warnings about the impact of thousands of satellites on stargazing and scientific research.
Writing JavaScript Views the Hard Way is a pattern for creating maintainable, performant, and fun views in plain JavaScript without using frameworks or libraries. It involves structuring views into sections with conventional names, such as DOM variables, DOM views, state variables, DOM update functions, and state update functions, to make code easier to understand and debug.
Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository for researchers, nearly 35 years ago. It has become a critical infrastructure for scientific research, hosting over 2.6 million papers and receiving 20,000 new submissions each month.
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Shared memory is used as an explicitly managed cache that will hold small portions of the input matrices local to a particular tensor core. this allows us to compromise by moving subtile of $a$ and $b$ from slow memory to fast memory (as large as we can fit) this reduces the amount of time that our compute spends idle compared to the best case - achieving the balance point would be ...
This repository contains code examples from the book Hands-On Large Language Models by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst. The book provides practical tools and concepts for using Large Language Models with Google Colab as the recommended setup.
Iceland uses a biproportional apportionment system with a d'Hondt divisor rule to allocate constituency seats. The system then allocates additional seats nationally to parties based on their votes, but uses an approximation method that is provably incorrect.
"The Art of Assembly Language Programming" is now hard. This text is now available in published form from "No Starch Press" (http://www.nostarch.com). Please check out their website for more details.
A recent experiment with four SATA SSDs found that a two-year-old, heavily used drive showed noticeable performance degradation and file corruption. The test also revealed that even a relatively fresh SSD left unplugged for two years had error correction issues.
The Revision demoparty featured a Pico-8 demo in the fantasy console competition, available online with source code on Pouet. The demo can be run in Pico8 Edu or a browser like Firefox on Windows.
Human predictions often struggle to outperform statistical models, especially when evaluating predictions in aggregate, but this doesn't necessarily mean human knowledge is worthless. Human judgment can still be valuable in certain areas, such as constructing causal theories, forward-looking causal reasoning, and identifying the right level of abstraction to reason about things in the world.
Claude Code has a feature to increase thinking budget with specific phrases like 'think', 'think hard', 'ultrathink', and others. These phrases allocate more thinking budget for Claude to use.
A proof-of-concept Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) modem was created using GNU Radio and MMDVMHost code, supporting voice calls and future development of confirmed and unconfirmed data messages. The modem uses a SDR device, such as the LimeSDR-mini, and supports Codec2 as the vocoder, but has limitations and challenges, including latency and tag position issues.
Barbara Santini, a psychologist, has been widely quoted in major news outlets but her qualifications are now in question. Newsrooms have removed her comments after concerns were raised over her identity and credentials.
Joplin is an open-source note-taking application with Markdown support, a plugin system, and multimedia content capabilities. It offers synchronization across devices using end-to-end encryption and a command-line version for terminal-based usage.
A Python class FooBarWidget had a crazy __init__ method that started a new thread to call its parent's __init__ method. This caused issues when closing the instance too quickly.
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Libro is a command-line tool to track reading history locally in SQLite. It creates a database file on first run and prompts for confirmation of the location.
A friend's bike from a bankrupt company was left with me, and I added a USB-C charging system with a button to turn on the light. I fixed the existing setup with a 3D printed cover and added safety features to avoid overheating.
The author criticizes Prop 65 warnings in California for being ineffective and argues that companies should be required to minimize cancer risk in their products.
Neurite is a fractal-based workspace that combines mind-mapping and AI collaboration. It offers a unique interface for creative thinking and note-taking.
Astronomers observed a massive star disappear, likely becoming a black hole through a "failed supernova." This discovery could explain why few supernovae are seen from the most massive stars, with up to 30 percent quietly collapsing into black holes.
Air travel prices and paths have a very complex relationship to each other. for round trip fares to be used, it must be combined in ut with at least one other fare. if you are searching for the cheapest route, prices can't be reduced to polynomial algorithm. air traffic controllers can be tasked with determining the best route to take based on the available data. they can also be trained to ...
The user is trying to find a way to determine if an author has written a new book and found a semi-programmatic solution using Perplexity AI. They created a library to query Perplexity and list new books from authors they're interested in.
PhyloLM uses phylogenetic algorithms to analyze Large Language Models' relationships and predict performance. It calculates a phylogenetic distance metric based on output similarity, demonstrating functional validity.
Only Fools and Horses, a British sitcom, gained massive popularity in the UK and surprisingly in the Balkans, where it's known as Mućke. The show's relatable characters and themes of making ends meet and getting rich quickly resonated with people in Serbia and other Balkan countries.
CaMeL is a defense system that protects Large Language Models from prompt injection attacks by creating a secure layer around the model. It achieves this by isolating untrusted data and preventing unauthorized data flows, ensuring program flow security.
The US under Trump is giving China a strategic advantage by isolating itself from Europe and undermining its position in the world. This allows China to gain goodwill in Europe and potentially have Russia, Europe, and its Asian neighbors under its control.
Pike is a dynamic programming language with a simple syntax and fast data manipulation capabilities. It is released under the GNU GPL and LGPL, allowing for various uses.
The CVE program's funding fell through, causing panic, but CISA found temporary funds to keep it running for 11 months, leaving uncertainty about future funding. The incident highlights issues with trust in the CVE program and its related entities, such as NVD and MITRE, due to poor communication and lack of transparency.
Monsky's theorem states that a unit square cannot be dissected into an odd number of triangles of equal area. A proof of this theorem relies on number theory and combinatorics.
UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford discovered a new elevation record for the Jeffrey pine in California's High Sierra, reaching 12,657 feet. The finding suggests the Jeffrey pine is California's highest tree and indicates a changing climate amid the state's highest peaks.
Claude Code is a command line tool for agentic coding that provides a flexible and customizable way to integrate Claude into coding workflows, but requires a learning curve and experimentation to find effective patterns. Successful patterns for using Claude Code include asking it to read relevant files, make a plan, implement a solution, and iterate until the desired result is achieved, with ...
Researchers propose a rotating universe model to solve the Hubble Puzzle, a discrepancy in the universe's expansion rate. They find that a slow rotation of approximately 0.002 Gyr^-1 can resolve the tension.
Scientists in the US claim to have discovered a new colour called olo through laser stimulation of the retina, describing it as a rich blue-green hue. The colour can only be experienced through this laser manipulation and is beyond the natural range of the naked eye.
Banana Pi BPI-RV2 is an open source gateway based on Siflower SF21H8898 SoC with 5G and Gigabit LAN. It supports PCIe, USB, and various interfaces for industrial control and enterprise use.
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A constrained 6-dof landing problem is used to study on-board optimal control. the problem contains both rotational and translational states, but the optimal solution must be convex to achieve global optimality. our second contribution is to compare the solution obtained with the ptr method to this known optimum. we have also found that 2-norm-based trust regions are an efficient method ...
You're frustrated with corporate life in the Netherlands, feeling undervalued as an employee making 30 euros per hour while freelancers earn 150 euros per hour. Your suggestion to convert existing staff to freelancers was rejected, but you're confused why the company wouldn't want to retain your skills and expertise.
A new computer architecture stores matrices and vectors in cellular logic arrays for efficient APL execution. Algorithms for most APL operations are presented in flow charts or tables for detailed data flow.
The user discusses the challenges of allocating memory in WebAssembly, particularly with garbage collection and the lack of a stable assembly language. They propose a solution using a static variable technique to reserve memory and provide a way to find the bounds of the heap using the memory.size instruction and a __heap_base constant.
Pahole is a Swiss Army knife for kernel debugging, used for inspecting structures, finding cache-line misalignment, and collecting statistics. It's also involved in the kernel build process to convert DWARF to BTF for the BPF verifier.
A Texas school district banned Virginia's state flag from younger students due to its depiction of a Roman goddess exposing her breast. The flag was previously removed from an online learning platform after a group opposed to censorship discovered the action.
The Oklahoma City bombing 30 years ago was a turning point in US history, but its impact was lost as the far-right movement it inspired has since moved from the fringes to the center of American politics. The threat now comes from within, with like-minded leaders such as Donald Trump and Elon Musk dismantling institutions and promoting a view that the country has been stolen from them.
Object storage has become the gold standard for storing large amounts of data in the cloud due to its reliability, low cost, and straightforward interface. However, its latency can vary widely, and costs can add up quickly, requiring strategies such as caching, hedging, and parallel reading to improve performance and efficiency.
Gamers can experience Game Transfer Phenomenon (GTP), where the physical world and video games bleed together, causing unsettling effects. GTP can be triggered by prolonged gaming sessions, especially in immersive games, and may be linked to personality traits and mental health.
Serverless promises simplicity but often leads to complexity, vendor lock-in, and surprise billing. Containers offer scalability, control, and predictable pricing, making them a better choice for real apps.
A new study from UC San Francisco warns that CT scans may cause 103,000 cancers annually due to overuse and overdosing. The risk is highest for infants and children, but adults are also at risk, especially those over 50.
Researchers exposed two lichen species to simulated Martian conditions and found that one species, Diploschistes muscorum, was more resistant to ionizing radiation. The study suggests that lichens could potentially survive on Mars, but more research is needed to determine their adaptability.
The Supreme Court issued an unusual order in an Alien Enemies Act deportation case, halting removals until further order and inviting the Solicitor General to respond. The Court's decision suggests growing frustration with the Trump Administration's handling of the case.
Python is suitable for production workloads in data analysis and machine learning, but requires careful management of dependencies, type hints, and secrets. To ensure production-readiness, use tools like uv, linters, pre-commit hooks, and Docker for deployments, and consider using FastAPI and asyncio for concurrent code.
Chrome OLED Mode is a high contrast theme extension that improves upon Super Dark Mode, offering better functionality than Dark Reader. It features 4 operation modes, 40 site-specific themes, and advanced management tools.
E-Matching is a pattern matching technique used in theorem provers and optimizing compilers to find semantically equivalent terms in an E-Graph, which is a directed graph containing E-Nodes and E-Classes that represent individual expressions and operations. The technique uses a query compiler to transform patterns into instructions that guide the search, replacing recursive traversal with a ...
Scientists in the US claim to have discovered a new colour called olo through laser stimulation of the retina, describing it as a rich blue-green hue. The colour can only be experienced through this laser manipulation and is beyond the natural range of the naked eye.
Beelay is a new RPC protocol designed to synchronize data between devices in a secure and efficient manner, using a combination of cryptographic techniques and a novel sync protocol called Rateless Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (RIBLT). Beelay addresses several challenges, including person-in-the-middle attacks, replay attacks, and the need to efficiently sync large amounts of data, and is ...
The user is writing a blog post about the pahole tool, which helps developers understand the memory layout of C/C++ data structures and optimize cache efficiency. The user provides examples of using pahole to analyze the memory layout of various data structures and demonstrates its usefulness in optimizing performance.
Villa Pisani in Stra is a significant Venetian villa with a large labyrinth, one of the most complex in the world, designed by Gerolamo Frigimelica. The labyrinth has a circular floor plan with nine concentric circles and a statue of Minerva at its center, surrounded by boxwood hedges.
Researchers have created a precise map of a mouse brain's vision centers, revealing neural circuits and promising to accelerate brain disorder studies. The map, developed by over 150 researchers, could help identify abnormal brain patterns in disorders like autism and schizophrenia.
OpenAI is reportedly buying Windsurf for $3 billion, a move that could give them AI-powered workspaces for coding and non-coding tasks. This acquisition could help OpenAI's models catch up to Anthropic's on coding benchmarks with Windsurf's usage data.
Researchers created Vending-Bench to test LLMs' ability to manage a vending machine over long periods. Experiments showed high variance in performance across multiple LLMs, with some models consistently profitable but others experiencing breakdowns.
A single llm can now perform tasks spanning from writing poetry and solving physics problems to diagnosing medical issues and summarising legal documents. agents will increasingly learn from their own interactions with the world, and continue to adapt over the course of lifelong streams of experience, says daniel saunders-mahnke jr. he argues that experiential data will eclipse the scale and ...
Researchers from Fudan University developed a picosecond-level flash memory device with a 400 picosecond program speed, the fastest semiconductor charge storage device known. This breakthrough will aid in ultra-fast AI model operation and potentially reshape the global storage technology landscape.
Voice Flight is a browser game where players control a flying plane using just their voice. No login, no setup, just open and play. Players control the plane using the loudness and duration of their voice. The louder the voice, the higher the plane flies.