Spaced repetition systems help retain knowledge by reviewing material at optimal intervals. A new algorithm called FSRS improves upon existing systems by using machine learning to predict the best review schedule for each user.
The government plans to use open source solutions and Linux servers, reducing reliance on proprietary software. This could lead to cost savings and increased independence from vendors.
Liangbing Hu developed Superwood, a material stronger than steel made from ordinary wood, which InventWood is now commercializing. Superwood has 50% more tensile strength than steel and is fire resistant, with plans to use it in building facades and structural beams.
The author built their own personal knowledge management system to avoid commercial app limitations and ensure data security. They used Directus as a wrapper around a database to create a simple and secure PKMS.
Pg&e has dropped the facade of necessary rate increases because of system upgrades. before 2017, customers would be on nem 1, which offered the best incentives if a house is sold. this is where i made the wise decision to hire someone else to do the plans for me. it is imperative you use wire ferrules for all the connections inside the inverter.... and that’s it. that is all there is to it!
A researcher used NLP techniques to analyze the Voynich Manuscript, finding structured language-like behavior without translation. The project used clustering, POS inference, and SBERT embeddings to identify patterns, but preprocessing decisions may have influenced results.
The user built a slow blinds opener using spare parts, including a geared motor, magnetic angle encoder, and relays, to open blinds gradually and silently. The device uses torque as the main feedback mechanism and can be controlled via a home automation system.
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Spaced repetition memory systems combine the Testing and Spacing effects for efficient memorization. They can be used for various tasks beyond rote facts, including developing conceptual understanding.
pacman -S base-devel git ninja sdl2 nasm gcc-multilib liburing clang libseccomp # We need llvm 20 and arch doesn't have it yet yay -S clang-prefixed-release git clone https://github.com/skift-org/vaev.git cd vaev pip install git+https://github.com/cute-engineering/cutekit python -m ck run --release vaev-browser -- file.html
Setup plugin in init.lua for medium to long-distance horizontal movement using f F t T. Configure options like showmode, cmdheight, disabled_keys, and hints for custom behavior.
The essay discusses how novices struggle to make progress in a field due to their inefficient decision-making and lack of understanding of the underlying patterns, whereas experts can navigate complex problems with ease. To overcome this, novices need to find a sympathetic expert to guide them, engage in "just talking" interactions, and explore the field through independent study, while also ...
A new Virtual Machine Manager called Karton is being developed for KDE Plasma, aiming to integrate perfectly with the Plasma desktop. It uses Qt Quick and Kirigami, and is currently being actively developed by University of Waterloo student Derek Lin.
The user was passionate about computers at 14 and got a PC in 1993, but it was a 386 that couldn't run games smoothly.
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BrowserBee is a Chrome extension that uses natural language to control browsers, combining LLM and Playwright for tasks. It's a privacy-first, open-source tool for personal use.
A Mexican navy ship, Cuauhtémoc, hit the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, killing 2 and injuring 19. The ship lost power and crashed into the bridge, damaging its masts and injuring many on board.
Budget cuts to the National Weather Service have reduced staff, delaying tornado warnings and putting lives at risk. Experts warn that these cuts will lead to tragedy as severe weather continues to threaten the US.
We're accelerating a world with billions of robots, making them accessible, auditable, and beneficial to humanity. Our robotics stack lets you deploy physical AI in the real world with seamless integration of software, hardware, and machine learning.
The user experienced issues with Apple services including App Store, Apple Music, and iCloud after a failed Apple Card autopay due to a changed bank account number. Apple took drastic action by disabling the user's accounts until the issue was resolved.
The author used to rely heavily on Roam for note-taking but stopped due to frustration with its search function and inability to automatically organize notes. Roam's bi-directional linking feature initially solved the author's problem of knowing where to put notes but eventually became a source of pain.
A security bug was found in Chrome on Android where a registered domain like googlelogoligature.net could be displayed as Google.net due to a font ligature. This was caused by the Google Sans font's specific way of drawing the ligature.
Google has made YouTube less addictive by introducing an algorithmic home feed that now feels pointless and lame. This change makes users feel like there's nothing good left to watch, effectively reducing engagement.
Buckaroo is a modern data table for Jupyter that expedites exploratory data analysis tasks with features like sorting, value formatting, and auto-cleaning. It has a low-code UI and can be customized with sensible defaults.
The author discusses the trade-off between type safety and usability in TypeScript, specifically the issue of hyper-typing where libraries have overly complex type definitions that make them difficult to use. The author prefers less accurate, less safe libraries for their practical usability and maintainability.
Paper engineers use folding techniques to create interactive, geometric structures that reveal stories, art, and information through physical activation. These designs, such as hexaflexagons and Miura folds, demonstrate the potential of paper engineering in art, science, and technology.
Go 1.24 uses non-trivial techniques to make i/o bound programs efficient. the number of threads created could be large (10000 in go) the main thread looks for another runnable goroutine and executes it if it's blocked by sysmon or while waiting on a channel. gc worker goes on concurrently with regular and garbage collection goroutines on the same processor p. go runtime uses poll_run
President Donald Trump considered a Boeing 747 from Qatar to replace Air Force One, citing free money. He's generating conflicts of interest at a record speed, but the real issue lies in cryptocurrencies on blockchains.
Python code implements David Deutsch's Constructor Theory framework, demonstrating self-replication and key concepts. It includes a universal constructor that can bootstrap itself from tasks and simulate photon emission and absorption.
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The author of Home Assistant has a complex smart home setup with hundreds of devices and multiple instances, but many are not properly connected or functioning. He wants to optimize his setup for his family's sake, but often gets sidetracked by contributing to Home Assistant.
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California DMV flagged 23,463 license plate applications for review from 2015-2016. Data was parsed from 458 Excel workbooks, with some errors and redactions due to inconsistent structure and personal info.
The beta weather website is temporarily deactivated due to staff loss and resource issues. Users are advised to use Weather.gov for official forecasts and warnings until the beta site is reactivated.
A group of engineers left NCR to form a company, building massively parallel computers with Sparc processors, which was later acquired by Cray and then Sun Microsystems. Sun completed the acquisition and developed the Ultra Enterprise Server 10000, a successful server that scaled up to 64 processors with uniform performance.
A 25-year-old man, Guy Edward Bartkus, killed himself and injured bystanders in a car bomb attack outside a fertility clinic, claiming he was an efilist and promortalist. His ideology, which argues life is inherently painful, may have been a vocabulary for his grief after a close friend's suicide.
Risc os 3.11 was released in 1992 contemporary with apple system 7. acorn went with 3434 pixels as the default size of their own icons, and commonly were not square. to make the icons more readable, they were renamed to'smaller' icons. the graphical user interface is based on the amiga's x86 architecture, which was designed to be aesthetically pleasing. there are no menus, no
Social conventions are the backbone of social coordination. our work does not treat llms as proxies for human participants, but rather investigates how they evolve organically in a population of communicating ai agents. eletters were screened to ensure that they are not merely random hallucinations. the results reveal how the process of coordinating can give rise to collective biases - d. ...
A college student received a zero on an assignment due to suspected AI-generated content, but editing history showed she wrote it herself. She appealed and had her grade restored after providing evidence of her writing process.
GPS is under siege from hostile forces with 700 daily jamming and spoofing incidents in 2024. Disrupting GPS could have a dire effect on the US economy, with estimated annual financial impact exceeding $40 billion.
The New Horizons spacecraft flew over Pluto in 2015, capturing a two-minute time-lapse video of its passage. The video shows Pluto's mountains, seas, and craters, with terrain dubbed "bladed" due to its unique ridges and gaps.
Moody's downgraded the US credit rating from 'AAA' to 'Aa1' due to rising debt and interest costs. The US now faces higher borrowing costs and increased risk of default on its sovereign debt.
Closures in Ruby are groups of code that can access non-local variables and are like suitcases that contain their environment when called. Procs and lambdas are similar but different types of closures in Ruby, with procs being more flexible with argument handling and lambdas being a specific type of proc with its own syntax.
The US military needs to adopt a new mindset to leverage memes in ideological warfare, using tools like the Meme Warfare Center to influence enemy minds. This requires emerging disciplines in ideological warfare, including cognitive scientists, cultural anthropologists, and game theory experts.
A new study suggests that the association between physical fitness and reduced mortality risk may be misleading due to unaccounted factors. Researchers found that high fitness levels in late adolescence were linked to lower mortality risk, but also to a lower risk of dying in random accidents.
Let's Encrypt will stop including TLS Client Authentication in certificates starting February 11, 2026. Users who rely on client certificates will need to opt-in to a new profile or switch to a private CA before the change takes effect.
Companies that cut junior positions entirely risk their future talent pipeline, says addy osmani. generative ai can act like a "career accelerant,” he adds. embrace the acceleration that ai offers, but be deliberate in filling the learning gaps. the key is to make sure juniors are able to handle the stress if things go wrong, argues joe wilson.
The Model2Vec crate loads and infers static embedding models in Rust, with Python package for distillation and training. It provides pre-trained models on HuggingFace hub for use in Rust.
Craft Basic is a BASIC interpreter for Windows with interactive coding and graphics capabilities. It has been updated with new features and fixes including bitwise operators and string operations.
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The Economist's global subscription pricing is irrational and unfair, with prices varying by over 300% depending on nationality. The Economad Index shows most world currencies are overvalued, except for India, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan.
You're considering creating small web tools with a $5/month subscription, but are unsure if people will pay. Many users agree that $5/month is too low to be profitable and that people generally don't subscribe to single-use tools.
Aho-corasick: unwrap() should not be used for error handling in rust libraries. he says if error is recoverable, then one should treat it as 'normal' code should use expect() instead, which includes message in panic output - obama aided in this effort, i think? errno: linting against wrap() doesn't make sense,
To apply a git email patch using Apple Mail on MacOS, create a Patches mailbox folder and move the patch email to it. Then export the folder locally and apply the patch in the terminal.
Maciej Witkowiak is running a simple AI on a 42-year-old Commodore 64, titled Llama2.c64, using a 260K model. The AI is under user control and runs on weak hardware, making it an impressive feat despite its slow performance.
sshsync is a CLI tool for running shell commands across multiple remote servers via SSH. It uses SSH aliases from your ~/.ssh/config file and supports groups, dry runs, and file transfers.
Racketmeter is the easiest way to measure badminton racket string tension using the mic on your device. No more expensive equipment needed. Just use your phone or computer to measure your racket tension.
The Neo Geo's use of sprites is not unique to SNK, as other companies like ADK, Epoch, and NEC also used sprite-centric hardware. Taito's Kiki KaiKai is a sprite-based shoot 'em up with a unique aesthetic and gameplay mechanics.
Decision trees are a type of machine learning algorithm that work by recursively partitioning the feature space into smaller regions, with each internal node asking a question about the data and each leaf node providing a prediction. The goal of decision trees is to reduce impurity, or the proportion of misclassified examples, by splitting the data into regions that are as pure as possible, ...
Pennsylvania's Solar for Schools program faces stiff competition for limited funds, threatening a school district's plan to install a five-megawatt solar system. Environmentalists fear a proposed amendment could weaken the state's solar industry by targeting net metering, a key financial incentive for residential solar owners.
Maintaining friendships between parents and non-parents can be challenging, but open communication and compassion can help keep relationships intact. By being flexible and inclusive, friends can find ways to spend time together despite the changes that come with having children.
You agree with the article's point about a language needing a killer app, but think it's more about having a killer domain. You've found it harder to use a language in the wrong domain.
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Pfas adsorption to soil and sediment is hard to predict in the absence of appropriate laboratory experimentation. e.g. different types of short and long chain sulfonic acids and pfsas are only weakly sorbed to the soil. this is of major importance for the investigation and remediation of any contaminated site. the environmental quality standards have been nationally implemented in ‘besluit kwaliteitse
Stack Error is a library that aims to provide ergonomic error handling for library development, offering a balance between development speed and debugging ease. It provides a custom error type and macros to simplify error handling and add file name and line number information to error messages.
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Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation, combining video models with other leading foundation models for intuitive workflows. Speedrun's involvement helped Hedra secure top talent, design partners, and strategic guidance, paving the way for an oversubscribed Series A.
Reporoulette is a Python library for sampling GitHub repositories using various methods including sequential ID system, temporal sampling, and BigQuery. It supports filtering by characteristics such as language, stars, and event types.
The extension helps remember why you muted or blocked a user on x.com by logging events and allowing private notes. It also exports and imports data, syncing notes and logs across devices.
Fearmongering is the act of exploiting fear for personal gain, often through exaggerated rumors of danger. It can have strong psychological effects, such as making people fear the wrong things and increasing support for authoritarian leaders.
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Researchers found that living organisms emit a faint, invisible light due to ultraweak photon emission, which varies with stress and vitality. This phenomenon can be used as a non-invasive tool for diagnostics and medical research.
Google released emergency Chrome updates to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could lead to full account takeover. The flaw, discovered by Vsevolod Kokorin, allows remote attackers to leak cross-origin data via malicious HTML pages.