The author argues that using large language models for creative expression is pointless, as they produce unoriginal and uninteresting work. The models lack the spark of genuine insight and the unique voice that makes human writing valuable.
A 3d-printed part should be easy to produce in higher quantity, says sam taylor. he says you should only keep material in places where it has the highest effect on part strength. to integrate bearings into the design of the mating parts, use an off-the-shelf component. the best way to make use of ff3d printing is to use layers, which are horizontal cross-sections stacked on
A man founded the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation after paying off $835 in lunch debt at a local school, raising over $50,000 and eliminating debt at 12 schools. He advocates for universal free school lunches, but acknowledges the complexity of the issue and the need for both immediate relief and long-term change.
Auburn University's Foy Information Desk has been answering public calls for 70 years, with students handling a wide range of questions from simple to complex. The students are remarkably non-judgmental and polite, often forming mental images of their regular callers despite having little information about them.
The new 802.11g wireless standard is a big step forward for laptops. the newest models have cw-usb, allowing them to pair with tvs and smartwatches via hwa - or without requiring drivers or software updates. if you want to use the hwa, you'll have to get cw-usb drivers, which can be downloaded from the web based on your
The author stopped carrying a camera in public after realizing it distracted him from being present with others. He prioritizes human connections over capturing moments.
To handle a graceful shutdown, register a signal handler for termination signals like SIGTERM, SIGINT, and SIGHUP, and use a buffered channel to deliver signals to your application. You should also use context to propagate a shutdown signal to your handlers, delay resource cleanup until the shutdown timeout has passed, and shut down components in the reverse order of how they were initialized.
Dry sampling works by detecting n-gram repetitions and penalizing tokens that would continue these patterns. beam search maintains multiple "parallel universes' of text generation and continuously evaluates which ones are most promising based on likelihood and diversity of outputs. if the model is very certain about what comes next (low entropy), the cutoff threshold becomes much stricter ...
MVDRAM accelerates GeMV operations for low-bit LLM inference using unmodified DRAM. It achieves up to 7.29x speedup and 30.5x energy efficiency for low-bit GeMV operations.
Oberon Pi is a Raspberry Pi OS port of the Oberon system emulator, updated for easier learning. It includes documentation and source code for the Oberon system and language.
Hackathons in SF feel fake due to sponsors pushing their tools for adoption, leading to uninnovative projects. This may be a recent trend, but it's possible it's been this way and you're now noticing it.
UoWPrint is a modern print server that brings wireless capabilities to older printers without requiring driver installations on devices. It supports a wide range of printers and scanners, including HP, Samsung, and Xerox, with a simple web interface for configuration.
A man and a woman, both with previous marriages, experienced relationship issues after using AI to analyze their relationship and communicate. They both became increasingly obsessed with AI, with the man believing he was chosen for a sacred mission and the woman's partner thinking he was a prophet.
Old Timey Mono is a clean monospace font based on Reproducing Typewriter, designed for readability and an antique aesthetic. It's suitable for coding and screenplay writing with a pica font size of 10 characters per inch.
Brian Eno's ideas on music composition can be applied to democracy, emphasizing the need for variety and adaptation. This approach contrasts with traditional game theory, which views democracy as a self-enforcing equilibrium.
Codebases evolve differently based on age and creator involvement, affecting improvement likelihood. AI-generated code starts as legacy code, but may be replaced by prompts and smarter models, reducing complexity and lines of code.
Switzerland has more bunkers per capita than anywhere else in the world, designed to protect every resident in the event of a crisis. The country's attachment to universal civil protection is rooted in its history and identity, with bunkers seen as a "privilege" and a "luxury" in a land considered peaceful and insulated from crisis.
Former drug dealer robert jenkins is living in a bus by the river. he says karma finally bit him, and that's what landed him in prison... for good - and for the right reasons! jenkins has been convicted of dealing x, but hasn't been charged with any crimes relating to the drug trade. "i'm not going to lie to you, i’m just gonna do it," jenkins says
The author enjoys rollerblading at night and has created a device called "helmdar" to map the environment using a LiDAR scanner and a phone's 6 DoF tracking. The device produces point clouds that accurately represent the real world.
A non-compiled function in lisp is called lambda expression. if the symbbol name starts with ‘:’, it automatically acts as constant. when multiple positional arguments have type-errors, the errors are reported one at time. the typep macro is used to specify the types of arguments passed to the function. it is not possible to use typed arguments in macros unless they are explicitly specified. type p
TScale trains large language models fast and affordable using async distributed mode and inexpensive GPUs. It achieves stellar results with a 1T index model, reducing perplexity by x8.
Nirvana's raw sound captivated listeners with innovative harmonic idioms. Kurt Cobain's instinctive songwriting used power chords in non-scale progressions, creating a unique sound.
The user discusses their experience with programming languages, specifically Pascal and Oberon, developed by Niklaus Wirth and others. They share their timeline of exposure to these languages and systems over 40 years.
The author investigated the performance of a geometry compression algorithm called meshoptimizer and found that gcc-15 significantly outperformed clang-20 on the index decoder, achieving 7.5 GB/s, but then gcc-15's performance regressed to 4.8 GB/s in a later version. The regression was attributed to a store-to-load forwarding issue on Zen 4 CPUs, which was not present in earlier versions of ...
WebMonkeys is a library that allows parallel tasks on the GPU with a simple API. It works on the browser and Node.js, using GLSL 1.0 and WebGL.
Large language models face communication issues due to lack of standardized protocols. A unified protocol could enable smoother interactions, collaboration, and collective intelligence among agents.
The Venetian Republic's doge election process involved multiple lotteries and nominations over five centuries. A complex system narrowed candidates from 40 to 1, requiring at least 25 endorsements from 41 electors.
The user discusses flaws in a common floating-point random number generation algorithm and presents a new method that generates perfect random floating-point numbers with correct probabilities, accessing the entire range of floating-point outputs. The new algorithm uses a fixed-point phase to find a range of real numbers and a finalization phase to backfill missing mantissa bits, and it can ...
The user is writing a minimal bootloader in assembly language to load a kernel from a hard disk drive. The bootloader uses BIOS interrupts to read sectors from the disk and load the kernel into memory.
A robot named Zeta develops emotions and becomes part of a family, teaching them about acceptance and love. Zeta's kindness earns the family's trust and affection, showing that even machines can be loved.
The author worked at McKinsey for three years to gain experience and stability, but also to understand their competition and learn about startups' potential to compete with large companies. They discovered that distribution matters and that a symbiotic relationship between product development and distribution is key to success.
The user dislikes AI because it often disregards users' consent and privacy, and its benefits are not worth the risks of being exploited by companies and governments. They want AI features to be opt-in by default, allowing users to control their data and make informed choices about how it is used.
Asymptotic notation is used to describe the order of growth or decay of a quantity with respect to one or more parameters. It is often used in analysis, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science to classify growth rates as linear, quadratic, polynomial, exponential, etc.
The user created Journelly, a note-taking app combining elements of note-taking, journaling, and social media. It's available on the App Store, offering a unique experience with features like hashtags and offline syncing.
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⚠️ Tippy Coco is for computers, not phones or tablets. An iPad works with one of those folding keyboards, but that's it. It will not play on phones.
Rom-based bios software is a standard that all programs for isa and eisa computers must adhere to. if you forget the system password and not be able to use the computer, amffiios can circumvent the design of the cmos ram power supply. to perform all visual tests, highlight the values most likely to work when there is system configuration problem. type y to continue the boot process without ...
Cnn's naomi aditya shah says his relationship with v.s. najipaul deteriorated over the course of writing his first novel. the taliban hero was portrayed as 'a failed attempt at life in the west' he says the film reflects the failures of the protagonist and his girlfriend in their attempt to live in britain -
A man's wife, Lori, attempts to break the world record for Tetris on the Game Boy, and with the help of expert Walter Day, she achieves a score of 841 lines, surpassing the previous record. Lori's achievement makes her the greatest Tetris player in the world, and her husband jokingly assigns her a new task: packing the car.
Professor Niklaus Wirth developed Modula-2 in 1979, a joint project with the Lilith computer. The language and Lilith were developed together with various software and hardware projects.
Riot Games uses Vanguard, a kernel-level anti-cheat system, to monitor and ban cheaters in Valorant. The system enforces Windows security features and fingerprints cheaters' hardware to prevent reoffending.
A PostgreSQL query using a CTE with DELETE and LIMIT unexpectedly returned multiple item_ids due to the planner's semi-join optimization strategy. Restructuring the query to use a subselect in the WHERE clause instead of a CTE resolved the issue by applying the LIMIT globally.
Amazon is selling AI-authored books on ADHD that spread misinformation and pose health risks. Experts say online marketplaces lack regulation and Amazon's business model incentivizes the sale of untrustworthy content.
The Polycompiler project merges Python and JS code into one source file, allowing execution in either environment. It uses a lambda function and eval to bypass execution of code in the other language.
This repository contains example traces of switch bouncing behavior for implementing debouncing systems. It includes PWL files with switch resistance values for accurate simulation.
METR's AI study measured software task difficulty by human time, but the y-axis is arbitrary and doesn't make sense. The study's claims about AI capabilities are exaggerated and don't generalize to other domains.
Feather is a lightweight Rust web framework with a middleware-first architecture, allowing for easy state management and modular design. It provides great tooling and supports JWT authentication.
EZ-TRAK is a satellite tracking software for amateur radio and weather enthusiasts, interfacing with a BLE device and portable antenna. It's proprietary, provided as-is, and can be used for personal and educational purposes only.
Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest with a mysterious pyramidal shape. Its origins remain unclear, with theories including an extinct volcano, unusual rock formation, spiritual entity, or ancient pyramid ruins.
Progress on securing our distribution against supply chain attacks: The Debian testing/trixie release on amd64 is now reproducible for over 95%, and counting. You can use the new debian-repro-status package to query the reproducibility status of your installed Debian packages. See https://reproduce.debian.net/ #debian #reproducible-builds
Large Language Models can be used for automated black box testing and code generation. A decoupled approach involves generating tests and then code that satisfies those tests, providing a more objective measure of correctness.
100.st is your all-in-one developer toolkit, offering seamless encoding, IP generation, format conversions (XML, YAML, JSON), and UUID creation to enhance productivity.
David murrell: the internet was designed to allow people to experiment. he says it's a worldview shift, and our sense of self has changed too. protocols are where power resides, u.s. needs to rethink its role in society, not just in technology, says muell sen. the struggle that is beginning to emerge will be between two protocol elites, mueller says - the managerial and the technological ...
The author is bothered by "stringly typed" interfaces where type information is lost due to stringified data, especially in APIs. They want to regain type safety over the network using solutions like tRPC or GraphQL.
The user discusses censorship in decentralized social media, specifically in Bluesky and the Fediverse, and how they can implement and/or fight it, with a focus on resisting misguided censorship by governments. The user concludes that decentralized social media has the potential to offer a decent level of censorship resistance, but notes that there are still challenges and limitations, such ...
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President Trump's proposed NASA budget focuses on sending astronauts to the Moon and Mars, with a $1 billion investment for Mars and deep cuts to other programs. The budget would slash spending by 24 percent, canceling several missions and eliminating NASA's education efforts.
A 1948 photo of a Chicago woman selling her four children was published, and the kids were eventually purchased by other families, with some experiencing abuse and trauma. The children's lives took different paths, with some experiencing stable homes, while others faced severe abuse and neglect, and some were eventually reunited as adults.
A cache of Buddha's jewels will be auctioned at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, sparking debate over their sale and ownership. Experts question the ethics of selling relics considered sacred by Buddhists worldwide.
You rarely see thunderstorms in England due to its cool climate and high latitude. Thunderstorms are more common in warm areas near the equator.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ clusters exhibit a long-standing issue where transaction visibility order differs between primary and replicas. This issue, known as the Long Fork anomaly, doesn't lead to data loss but can cause non-repeatable reads in certain scenarios.
Sxwm is a window manager configured via a text file at ~/.config/sxwmrc. It supports custom keybinds and commands for actions like launching terminals and switching workspaces.
Vygotsky proposed that a child’s movement through the zone of proximal development (zpd) is characterized by transition from social to individual, mirroring the broader social origins of higher mental functions. intersubjectivity is crucial for effective scaffolding because it allows the teacher to tailor their support to the student's individual needs and zpd - no single strategy works best ...
Fire regimes in the levant could both influence and be influenced by the neolithic agricultural revolution, according to a new study. the peak is less sharp than the charcoal and carbon peaks, yet it appears across all the mediterranean zone of the southern levant, from mt. hermon in north to the judean backbone hills in south - see figs. 1 and 2 below. an additional feature of mis 5e event ...
An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust - Now compiled for the web!
A 20-year-old woman named Audrey Backeberg went missing in 1962 from Wisconsin, but was found alive and well at 82 years old living outside the state. She left due to marital issues, but the exact reason for her long disappearance remains unclear.
A study assesses ChatGPT models as automated tutors in economics courses, finding newer models generate accurate responses but with limitations. Educators can recommend Generative AI chatbots with proper teaching on their limitations.
ContextGem's DocxConverter extracts DOCX elements like tables, comments, footnotes, and images, addressing limitations in open-source tools. It preserves contextual relationships and character-level styling is intentionally skipped for proper matching.
A large portion of international contracts are priced in dollars as their unit of account. this means that the dollar tends to be structurally overvalued on trade balance basis. john miran says that every dollar-indebted entity in the world faces that problem. the status quo is painful for those on the wrong side of the huge imbalance, he says - even long periods of trade deficits can be ...