Charles Brooks is a photographer who captures the inside of musical instruments, using a unique technique involving a probe lens and focus stacking. His images reveal the intricate details and craftsmanship of the instruments, making them look like large spaces.
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, warned that AI technology could wipe out half of entry-level office jobs in the next couple of years. However, his claims lack evidence and seem more like a sales pitch for his company's work.
The traditional method of long addition has limitations when working with large numbers, particularly when it comes to parallelization and carry propagation. A technique called radix 251 representation can be used to delay carry propagation until the end, improving performance by reducing the need for carries during intermediate additions.
This is a CUDA kernel for 2D convolution using the implicit GEMM (General Matrix Multiply) algorithm with WMMA (Warp Matrix Multiply Accumulate) instructions. The kernel is designed to run on NVIDIA GPUs and is optimized for performance.
Microsandbox is a secure environment for running untrusted code, allowing for fast and isolated execution of AI-generated or user-submitted code. It supports multiple languages and provides a convenient package-manager workflow for project-based development.
AWS uses formal methods to ensure correctness and performance of its services, including model checking, property-based testing, and runtime monitoring. These methods have improved developer velocity, reduced costs, and increased customer satisfaction, and are now being adopted by more teams within AWS.
A team of Crusaders of Rust members discovered a use-after-free bug in Linux's packet scheduler and developed an exploit to win a $51,000 kernelCTF bounty. The team optimized the proof of work required to submit the flag, using AVX512 instructions and inline assembly to achieve a sub-second solution and secure the win.
Micro Center Silicon Valley officially opened at 5201 Stevens Creek Blvd in Santa Clara with hundreds of fans in attendance. The store offers tech enthusiasts a hands-on experience with knowledgeable staff and special promotions including 20% off Windows desktops and laptops.
David Clark is an engineer who shares knowledge on radio technology, and his son Paul Clark is the owner of Factoria Labs, teaching SDR classes. They co-authored a book on building a basic receiver with SDR.
Redis Inc brought back Salvatore Sanfilippo, the original creator of Redis, to rebuild trust with the community. Valkey, a Redis fork, has been thriving and recently hit 999.8K RPS on an 8 VCPU instance with 0.8ms p99 latency.
Researchers created the Darwin Gödel Machine, a self-improving AI that modifies its own code to enhance performance. The AI system can autonomously discover and implement beneficial changes, potentially leading to accelerated scientific progress and societal benefits.
The user created a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server buttplug-mcp for Buttplug.io ecosystem, but found the underlying go-buttplug library unstable. They plan to dig deeper into the library and MCP protocol to resolve issues and improve the project.
You're looking for a local LLM model for basic conversations without physics or advanced math, and ideally something that runs reasonably fast on your 5060ti with 16GB VRAM. Models like Qwen3-30B-A3B and Qwen2.5-Coder 14B are good picks, but you should try a few recent models to see which works best for your tasks.
Critics argue generative AI is built on theft and threatens human creativity. This company prioritizes human values over technological advancements.
This book helps C++ programmers learn Rust by translating common C++ patterns into idiomatic Rust code. It's designed for random access and written by expert C++ and Rust programmers at Brown University.
The US government imposed sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc, a Philippines-based company facilitating virtual currency investment scams, and its Chinese administrator Liu Lizhi. The company's operations are linked to over $200 million in US victim-reported losses.
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A Swedish actor has discovered a lost film, "The Day the Clown Cried," made by Jerry Lewis in 1972, after keeping a complete workprint for 45 years. The actor, Hans Crispin, plans to make the film available for restoration and public viewing.
MinIO has removed key web-based management features from its free version, forcing users to use command-line tools or upgrade to paid plans. This change has sparked controversy and led users to explore alternatives like OpenMaxIO and other S3-compatible storage solutions.
BOND is a global technology investment firm that supports visionary founders throughout their entire life cycle of innovation & growth.
Robert F Kennedy Jr's health report contains fabricated studies and mischaracterized research, according to an investigation by Notus. The report's scientific failures raise concerns about the credibility of the Trump administration's health agenda.
Triangle Splatting achieves high-quality novel view synthesis with sharp edges and fine details. It outperforms Gaussian Splatting methods with higher visual fidelity, faster convergence, and increased rendering throughput.
Cap is a lightweight, open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work that's fast, private, and easy to integrate. It's self-hostable, customizable, and offers a standalone mode with Docker for use with various languages.
This script implements a weather API server using the MCP server framework, providing tools for getting current weather and forecasts. It uses the curl command to make API calls to external weather services.
De Bruijn indexes avoid capturing variables by incrementing free variables by one when past a binder and decrementing once when removing a binder. This notation simplifies substitution and comparison of terms in lambda calculus.
The analysis looked at YC companies that raised Series A rounds after ChatGPT launched, finding that business automation and operational tooling dominated, with network advantages and technical talent being key factors. Top-tier lead investors also mattered, with 50% of successful companies building platforms or APIs.
This tool converts Excel to Markdown and vice versa, respecting user privacy by processing data locally. It also allows optional column alignment and clipboard copying of results.
Firms may promote CEOs based on observed success rather than underlying risk tolerance, leading to increased risk-taking. Superfund CEOs excel in internal roles but pursue riskier external policies, resulting in greater volatility and weaker performance.
Adam Riess, a Nobel laureate, is questioning the standard model of cosmology due to the Hubble tension, a discrepancy in the expansion rate of the universe. His findings suggest the standard model may be broken, potentially leading to a new understanding of the universe's fate.
W++ is an experimental programming language for learning and chaos, featuring async lambdas and pseudo-OOPSIE principles. It was created by Ofek Bickel and made public after being removed from the VSCode Marketplace.
Investment writer Joachim Klement recently mentioned research linked to The Limits to Growth, which predicted global industrial output decline in the mid-2020s and population decline in the mid-2030s. A new study recalibrating the World3 model confirms these predictions, suggesting a collapse in the coming decade due to resource depletion.
Marks & Spencer's online services will be disrupted until July due to a cyberattack in April. The company expects a £300 million hit to its operating profit and has informed customers that some personal data was stolen.
Donut Browser is a free, open-source browser orchestrator that allows unlimited local profiles with proxy support and complete privacy. It creates isolated profiles for each browser with customizable settings and extensions.
Namespaces in OpenBao provide logical partitions for isolated environments, enabling teams to operate independently with their own policies and secret management. This feature promotes secure multi-tenancy and self-service, reducing the burden on cluster-level operators.
Colleges are using surveillance tools to monitor students during the pandemic, raising concerns about privacy and control. Students are pushing back against these measures, citing fears of data misuse and unequal treatment.
Deepfakes, created by AI, are becoming increasingly convincing and difficult to trace, potentially spreading false information on social media. This could lead to a world where people doubt reality itself, making it harder to believe what's true and potentially harming democracy.
Asdf Overlay draws on top of windows with no performance loss using a GPU shared texture. It requires same compiler for DLL and client to function correctly.
OrioleDB introduces a bridge index layer to support non-B-tree indexes without rewriting existing extensions. It adds a virtual iptr column and a lightweight bridge index to map iptr to primary-key values, allowing full access to Postgres' IndexAM ecosystem.
Researchers found that current language models are misinterpreting words due to their tokenization method, which breaks words into subwords that don't always reflect their meaning. They suggest using a different method called unigram language modeling, which preserves more of a word's morphology and could lead to better language models.
A woman developed peripheral neuropathy due to vitamin B6 toxicity from a supplement, causing her to struggle with mobility and pain. Experts warn that excessive vitamin B6 can cause irreversible damage and unnecessary supplements can be harmful.
A Go port of Git's interactive add functionality provides finer control over staging with recursive hunk splitting. It can be used as the default git add -i and git add -p by installing it in the Go bin directory and updating the Git exec path.
The article discusses the dangers of "vibe coding," where developers rely too heavily on AI tools and skip fundamental understanding of coding principles. This approach can lead to poorly built software and security issues.
A Chinese paraglider pilot, Peng Yujiang, reached 8,598 meters in a cloud, with a video showing his flight. However, the video contains AI-generated scenes, raising questions about its authenticity and the media's handling of the footage.
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The SEO market is shifting towards Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) as AI-native search engines like Perplexity and Claude become more prominent. GEO prioritizes content that is well-organized, easy to parse, and dense with meaning, rather than just keywords, to show up directly in AI-generated answers.
Click one of the pages below to learn about the different types of player piano rolls and how they work.
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Direct File is a free IRS service allowing taxpayers to electronically file federal tax returns directly with the IRS through an interview-based process. It's available in English and Spanish and can be accessed on various devices.
A woman died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 50 years after receiving contaminated human growth hormone as a child. Her case represents the longest latency period ever documented for this universally fatal disease.
Sequor is a SQL-centric workflow platform for building reliable API integrations with complete control over pipelines. It uses a code-first approach with YAML, Jinja, and SQL for version control and scalability.
Seamus Heaney was a famous poet who struggled with balancing his public life and personal privacy. He was known for his kind and generous nature, often praising others and offering support.
The Take9 cybersecurity awareness campaign suggests pausing for nine seconds before clicking links or sharing files but this advice is unrealistic and won't improve cybersecurity.
C++'s RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization) feature ensures safe resource management by automatically freeing resources when they go out of scope. To implement RAII safely, follow the rule of 5, which includes implementing move operations to prevent unnecessary copies and ensure performance.
Ugly Gerry is a font made from US congressional districts to protest gerrymandering. It was created by Ben Doessel and James Lee for RepresentUs.
This book is an experimental collaboration between human and AI, exploring parallels between human and artificial intelligence. It aims to provoke reflection and demonstrate AI capabilities beyond coding tasks.
Google is making AI summaries in Gmail automatic for longer emails and threads. Users can disable this feature in app settings by unchecking the smart features toggle.
A self-employed dad with a large online following shares terrible jokes, often resulting in earworms for his followers. His own earworm experience with Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" lasted for days after sharing a joke.
Cats engage in many social behaviors toward their owners. they exchange odors through allorubbing, i.e., their bodies against other individuals. there was a strong association between repeated sniffing behavior and feline personality traits. no specific association existed between cat–owner relationships and exploratory olfactory behavior. the results of this study suggest that cats may be ...
Frustration can be a radar for problems and opportunities. It can inspire innovation and creation by identifying gaps and glitches in the status quo.
AI models are improving at software engineering tasks but still fall short of fully replacing human engineers due to limitations in reliability, long context performance, and agentic capabilities. To overcome these limitations, researchers are turning to reinforcement learning and custom environments to train AI models that can generalize and learn from real-world tasks.
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A graduate student at MIT discussed a work bottleneck with a Harvard student at a bar, leading to a collaboration that pioneered organ-chip technology. This technology was later commercialized by a biotech firm founded by Donald Ingber in Boston.
Mercury has long emphasized the “frictionless” nature of its account opening process. reducing friction can lead to increasing risk, as evidenced by the large number of foreign accounts it courted but later needed to remediate - daniel lenoir argues a new partnership with column would bolster mercury's risk profile even further if it were to go bankrupt... he says column declined to comment ...
Leap is a full-stack AI developer agent that works with you, not instead of you. Build full-stack applications and deploy them to your cloud on AWS or GCP.
The US economy shrank 0.2% in the first quarter due to weaker consumer spending and trade impact. This is a revised estimate from the initial 0.3% decline reported.
The Trump administration is challenging a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision, Humphrey's Executor, which limits the president's power to fire agency leaders. The case could impact dozens of agencies, including those regulating labor, consumer products, and nuclear energy.
Oregon raised the minimum marriage age to 18 with Governor Tina Kotek's approval. This aligns with Washington state and protects against forced marriages, a human rights abuse.
The user is implementing a TinyAPL interpreter in Haskell, starting with array, function, and operator representation in the Haskell type system. They will use helper functions, define Eq and Ord instances, and implement scalar and dyad functions using the Either monad for error handling.
CatBench is a Postgres demo app that uses 25k pet photos for vector search and UI recommendations. It now includes monitoring features and query performance charts.
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Changefly ID is a next-gen authentication system for secure logins and payments. It uses anonymized encryption and machine-learning to protect users and content from evolving cyber threats.
The Science Museum Group Collection was analyzed using over 7,000 photographs of objects from 21 categories, revealing trends such as a rise in grey colors and a decline in brown and yellow over time. The analysis also identified unique-looking objects and patterns, such as the use of bright blues in 19th century pocket watches, and highlighted the value of online collections for learning ...
AMD is removing proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers from Radeon Software for Linux in favor of Mesa drivers. Mesa RADV Vulkan driver will be officially supported, a long-overdue change for AMD to back its community-driven drivers.
Embedding a built SPA into a backend's binary file simplifies code and eliminates CORS issues. This unconventional approach can be achieved with Rust/Axum and Svelte/SvelteKit using libraries like rust-embed.