We launched Gemma 3, a leading AI model, and optimized it with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) for reduced memory requirements. This enables running powerful models like Gemma 3 27B locally on consumer-grade GPUs.
Zig's comptime feature is a powerful abstraction that allows for compile-time evaluation, but it's restrictive and doesn't allow dynamic code generation or input/output operations. It's designed to be hermetic, reproducible, safe, and cacheable.
The article discusses how movie mistakes, or "seams" that hold movies together, can be exciting for fans to discover. These mistakes often reveal the craft and artistry of filmmaking, and can be found in many classic movies.
The author discusses the challenges of measuring AI's intelligence, creativity, and empathy, and how recent AI models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 have impressive capabilities but also exhibit uneven abilities.
Bubble introduces a new way to build a web application. It’s a no-code point-and-click programming tool. Bubble hosts all applications on its cloud platform.
OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf seems overpriced, given the company's limited user base and prospects for future growth. Google's dominance in the AI market, combined with its aggressive strategy, makes it difficult for other companies to compete.
Researchers have developed a hormone-free male birth control pill, YCT-529, which is 99% effective in preventing pregnancies in animal trials. The pill is now in human trials, offering a breakthrough in male contraception and a more equitable sharing of family planning responsibility.
The DCI standard is used by the cinema industry for secure movie distribution, relying on various IEEE and SMPTE standards, and uses encryption and decryption to protect DCP files. A certificate expiration issue with the movie WONKA caused playback problems, highlighting the importance of certificate validation in the DCI workflow.
The user loves Kate Text editor for its simplicity, power, and customizability, and has detailed their workflow and settings for others to try out. They appreciate Kate's out-of-the-box features, plugins, and community support, and prefer it over other editors like VSCode due to its open-source nature and lack of proprietary extensions.
Gerardus Mercator created a map in 1569 that required the integral of sec(x), which was unknown at the time. The integral was found 86 years later in 1645 by a teacher named Henry Bond.
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign targeting the pro-democracy movement in thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least august 2020. in 2022, citizen lab researchers uncovered an extensive espionage campaign impacting several groups within the movement, such as freeyouth and wevo - but this is not the case with juicyjam, they say based
Jose Hermosillo, a 19-year-old US citizen, was detained by Border Patrol for allegedly entering the US without documents, but was later released after a judge dismissed his case. He was visiting family in Tucson from Albuquerque with his 9-month-old child and girlfriend.
Instructions are given in three languages to click on a disk of a different color using only eyes, without blue light filter. The goal is to collect more data.
The author, a Linux enthusiast, used to customize desktop environments but found it frustrating due to constant churn and broken components.
Engineers using AI LLMs can automate tasks but require careful review due to hallucinations and biases. Blind acceptance of LLM solutions can atrophy engineers' problem-solving skills, hindering novel challenge tackling.
A principle called oz enables display of colors that lie beyond the well-known, bounded color gamut of natural human vision. the full area of the chromaticity triangle itself is the fundamentally larger color range that is accessible via cell-by-cell light delivery in oz, says dr. samuel gupta of ucsd et al. in theory, oz addresses nearly all possible colors in
Verus is a tool for verifying Rust code correctness through static checks and powerful solvers. It's under active development with a subset of Rust support and a community-driven project.
Signal Carnival is a C64 demo that uses misplugged cables to generate music and video, combining VIC and SID chips to produce a unique waveform and mildly polyphonic sound. The demo also features a custom loader that bitbangs audio during loading breaks and uses on-the-fly GCR decoding to write to any page.
Randomly generated Turing machines draw images and animations on a 2D canvas. A simple JavaScript+HTML5 demo. This project is distributed under a modified BSD license.
If you slam all of the mvc stuff into one package for convenience, you’re increasing the odds that you will still end up with circular loops. try to think about packages not just as snapshots in time but in terms of their evolution through time. this is not always a full solution. but it may be useful in some cases. it’s also useful to have some kind of abstraction that can be used to avoid ...
TikZ is compiled into SVGs by replacing script elements with corresponding SVGs. This is achieved through web2js, which compiles Pascal source to WebAssembly and executes LaTeX format.
The user discusses the concept of state machines and how they can be represented in Rust, exploring different approaches such as enums, structs, and generics to enforce state transitions and prevent invalid states. The user concludes that while there is no perfect solution, harnessing the power of generics and the ownership system can create a safe and expressive way to represent state ...
A transaction might be executed more than once for different purposes. writes that occur in transactions are buffered locally without contacting the cluster. tapir is the most well known example of not executing transactions before committing them. here are some further systems which all do transaction processing in rather different ways - and which you can use in your own projects if you ...
Lowry Pressly's book "The Right to Oblivion" argues that privacy is not just about controlling data, but about preserving human agency and potentiality. Pressly advocates for a more expansive understanding of privacy that protects against the creation of information and allows for quiet, inner lives.
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 developed a linearity theorem to improve large language model quantization, enabling a novel data-free method called HIGGS and optimal non-uniform quantization. This approach offers better accuracy-compression trade-offs and efficient GPU support.
The author reflects on San Francisco's tech industry, questioning whether its growth will benefit ordinary citizens or concentrate wealth among a few. The city's reliance on tech companies creates an economic imbalance, exacerbating issues like homelessness and housing crises.
Mathematicians Noga Alon and Peter Sarnak made a friendly bet about the rarity of "Ramanujan graphs," which are highly connected and efficient. A team of researchers led by Horng-Tzer Yau proved that about 69% of random regular graphs are Ramanujan graphs, resolving the bet.
Harvey Silverglate's book Three Felonies A Day reveals how US federal laws are overly broad and vague, making it easy for prosecutors to pin crimes on citizens. This can lead to abuse of power, as seen in the case of QWest CEO Joseph P. Nacchio, who was imprisoned for refusing NSA surveillance requests.
Falsify is a property test that tries to verify that all elements of all lists of up to 10 binary digits are the same. in property based testing, we do not specify an input, but rather generate splines of values and then verify they are related by some property prop. the key differences between hypothesis and falsie stem from the difference in representation of samples: linear streams in ...
I had this grand idea many moons ago about writing up a tcp/ip stack for the commodore 64. there's officially no other way you can get one on the modern internet, let alone the dec professionals. easily portable and painfully verbose source code is included. the compiler immediately started complaining if you try to push it over to the pro with kermit - it won't work.
Erin Storus created Garden Variety, a one-day outdoor art exhibition in her Toronto backyard, which became a huge success and inspired her to become a professional curator. Many artists and curators are now creating their own DIY art spaces in unusual locations, such as garages, tool sheds, and chicken coops, to showcase contemporary art and build community.
The user is a parent who wants to provide their children with access to older educational content that is not dependent on the internet and promotes keyboard skills and discoverability. They are restoring old Windows 3.1 software and setting up a virtual machine to create a safe learning environment for their kids.
Error handling in software is critical for safety and reliability. Traditional try/catch methods are common but present challenges in complex applications.
Mike Wood developed the LeapFrog toy after his 3-year-old son struggled with reading. He founded LeapFrog Enterprises, which introduced the popular LeapPad tablet in 1999.
Charles Lazarus opened the first Toys 'R' Us store in 1948, capitalizing on the baby boom and later expanding into a massive toy store. The company dominated the toy industry, but ultimately failed due to its own big-box model and failure to innovate.
Elliptic curves are mathematical functions with unique properties used in cryptography for digital signatures, key exchange, and encryption. They provide secure data protection with smaller key sizes, making them efficient for devices with limited resources.
Steam trains in the UK may face a future threat due to signalling system changes, but a pioneering project has successfully fitted a steam locomotive with modern technology. The "A1" No.60163 Tornado has been equipped with European Train Control System (ETCS) technology, paving the way for steam trains to run on main lines.
The 6502 CPU has a 130x21 bit PLA that decodes opcodes and clock cycles to determine instruction behavior. Undefined opcodes can behave similarly to defined ones due to shared encoding and PLA line firing.
Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä and STUK developed a handheld radiation detector that can detect all types of ionizing radiation. The device is compact, versatile, and can be used by various groups, improving radiation safety and security.
A new function can replace the built-in print() function. it can also append the argument to tuples, which are defined within the function definition - but the rest of the code won't be able to access and modify data if it doesn' renamed print_ with_memory() instead of print. each time you call print, it will have access to the same list of data as
The pursuit of non-volatile memory with program speeds below one nanosecond remains a longstanding challenge in the field of memory technology. in silicon material system, the limited ey acceleration efficiency is only capable of supporting program speed of tens of nanosecs. the injection current of the graphene and wse2 transistor is up to 60.4 pa m1 at |vds| = 3.7 v and 8.3 ppm
OAuth may not provide sufficient security for Model Context Protocol (MCP) due to its limitations in authentication, access control, and asset discovery. Infosec teams should consider OAuth as part of an identity access layer, but also implement additional measures to address new attack surfaces and access control policies.
You're a 19-year-old from Bangladesh feeling overwhelmed by the unstable economy, lack of job opportunities, and fading remote work trend. It's hard to survive with little experience and a struggling freelance market.
The author uses AI collaboratively to enhance work quality, not replace human insight. They see AI as a "thought-check" for ideas, like spell-check for writing.
High-end homeowners are rejecting smart homes due to complicated interfaces and forgotten passwords, seeking manual, low-tech living spaces instead. The trend is driven by a desire for self-sufficiency, resilience, and a retreat from tech-driven lifestyles, with some even opting for pre-internet home fixtures.
ClickHouse performance depends on various factors including ingestion, schema design, and query optimization, and handling real-time traffic and long-running queries requires careful design and configuration. Key settings to control include max_threads, max_memory, max_bytes_before_external_group_by, and max_concurrent_queries, and monitoring system tables and query logs is crucial for ...
Headset Bridge provides live visibility into product performance at retailers through direct POS system connections. It helps manufacturers optimize reorders, marketing, and product development with real-time sell-through and inventory data.
The author, a philosopher, adopted laboratory mice and observed their social lives, discovering they are deeply social, caring, and individual beings. This experience taught the author about life, community, love, care, and death, and the importance of taking care of one another.
The semiconductor industry is struggling to attract new talent due to a disconnect between how the field is practiced and taught, with a need for a practical-first approach to semiconductor design. The industry also faces challenges such as a perception that software engineering is more lucrative, a bias towards graduate degrees, and a lack of written documentation and knowledge sharing.
Steve McDougall earned $900 a week delivering for Uber Eats and DoorDash, but his account was deactivated due to "fraudulent activity." His income dropped to $500 a week after deactivation, highlighting the financial risks for app workers.
Tini is a process manager that protects against zombie processes and ensures proper signal handling in containers. It can be used with Docker by passing the --init flag or by using a pre-built Docker image.
gh-gfm-preview starts a local web server to serve markdown documents with GitHub-like rendering. It's a standalone binary that works offline and supports most GitHub emojis and code blocks with syntax highlighting.
The EU AI act includes special rules for open source models without requiring OSI compliance. It defines open source as a license allowing users to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve software and data, including models, with attribution and identical distribution terms.
Tesla's Solar Roof tiles are still available but production has slowed down significantly since 2022. The product is now a niche higher-end option installed through third-party certified installers.
Scientists created a quantum Rubik's cube with infinite possible states and new moves. A team of mathematicians found that a quantum solver can solve the puzzle in fewer moves than a classical solver, but with a higher average.
US President Donald Trump criticizes the Smithsonian Institution for promoting "anti-American ideology" about race. Genetics has shown that racial groupings have no biological basis, but the concept of race remains socially and culturally significant.
Meteor Burst Communications (MBC) uses ionized trails left by tiny particles bombarding the Earth's atmosphere to transmit data in bursts. Technological enhancements can extend the usable lifetime of meteor trails, increasing information transmission rates and potential applications in national security operations.
OpenAI CEO says saying 'please' or 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs tens of millions of dollars due to increased energy consumption. Being polite to AI may improve responses, but its environmental cost is a concern.
User restored their COMPUTEL videotex BBS on Apple IIe after 30 years, using Cristel software and Apple Tell card. They successfully connected the server to the internet using a VOIP adapter and now plan to develop micro-servers and preserve Minitel era knowledge.
Humanoid robots are poised to revolutionize household settings, addressing labor shortages and enhancing efficiency, with a potential global value of up to $24 trillion by 2030. However, their adoption also raises security concerns and geopolitical tensions, as nations vie for dominance in the field.
The Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture is a method to improve efficiency in transformer models by splitting a large feed-forward layer into smaller experts and a router that selects the top-k experts for each token. The MoE architecture reduces computational cost by only using a portion of the parameters for every single token, making it a popular approach for large transformer models.
Mark Zuckerberg testified in an antitrust trial that could break up Meta's social media empire. Meta recently introduced a "Friends" tab on Facebook to show users only posts from friends, a feature users have long requested.
Mcp servers are a way for ai assistants to interact with claude applications. they provide access to data, perform queries, and run aggregations, among other things - all using natural language and large language models (llms) mcp compass enables you to find the right server for your needs, based on your requirements and your budget.'mcp-compass' provides recommendations for the best mcp servers for