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Researchers have created a 13B vintage language model called talkie-1930-13b-base trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text to simulate conversations with people from the past. The model's performance is compared to its modern counterpart, with talkie underperforming in some standard LM evaluations but showing similar performance on core language understanding and numeracy tasks.
The author is a generative AI vegetarian, avoiding tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot due to concerns about bias, loss of critical thinking, and job displacement. They believe choosing to avoid generative AI tools is a small step towards a more thoughtful and creative society.
The user stopped drinking for a year after being triggered by a relative's "damp January" challenge and found it surprisingly easy, with the main difficulty being resisting chocolates with whiskey. After a year, the user's sleep improved, and they realized that alcohol's negative effects on sleep are significant, but they still miss the social aspect of drinking and may continue to drink occasionally.
Organizations can use standing meetings to maintain progress on complex projects with multiple stakeholders. By reviewing previous to-dos, it creates pressure to make progress and accountability among team members.
Toronto Police launched Project Lighthouse in November 2025 to combat an SMS blaster operating in downtown Toronto. The device mimicked a cellular tower, sending fraudulent texts to thousands of devices, posing a threat to public safety and financial security.
The Easyduino project is an open-source effort to create PCB designs for popular microcontrollers using KiCad. It aims to unify software and conventions across devboards like Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi.
RF engineering is experiencing a resurgence due to growing demand from industries such as space, 5G, and automotive, driven by a shortage of engineers who can work at the hardware level. The supply side is broken, with 73% of EE employers unable to fill positions within six months, and companies are investing in university partnerships to build their own talent pipeline.
A data breach at Mercor exposed 40,000 contractors' voice biometrics and ID documents. Attackers can use this data to clone voices and commit crimes like bank verification bypass and vishing.
Spanish archaeologists have documented 151 sites in the Bay of Algeciras, including 134 shipwrecks dating from the 5th century BC to the 2nd World War. The wrecks reveal the history of war, trade, exploration, and settlement in the strategically important waterway.
The author's magnetometer stopped working when powered by a battery, but worked fine when powered by USB. The issue was likely due to a noisy 3.3V power line caused by a switching regulator.
User tried Simple Lucas' focus routine, staring at a wall to recover focus, and found it effective but hard. They attribute their lack of focus to information overload and use wall staring with parasympathetic activation and mind blanking to improve productivity.
Test your color perception with this interactive test.
Apple is warning of two significant changes in macOS 27: removal of AFP support and a requirement for TLS 1.2 connections to certain servers. These changes may impact enterprise users and those with Time Capsules or NAS systems that don't support SMB3.
Radar systems involve various concepts such as A-scope displays, matched filters, antenna apertures, and signal processing techniques like coherent integration and MTI cancellers to detect and track targets. Key performance metrics include signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), probability of detection (Pd), and probability of false alarm (Pfa), which are influenced by factors like target RCS, antenna ...
Scratch's approach to SVG sanitization has been ineffective due to numerous vulnerabilities discovered over the years. Despite multiple fixes, new security issues continue to arise.
Download AgentSwift-0.1.zip You must install the dependencies listed below in order for the binary to work. See below for setup commands. A native macOS app that runs an autonomous AI coding agent for Apple platform development. Describe what you want to build, and AgentSwift uses Claude to discover your project, implement changes, build, run, and validate — without you touching Xcode. Launch ...
China's state planner asked Meta to withdraw its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots, citing laws and regulations. The deal faced scrutiny from China and Washington, with lawmakers in the US prohibiting American investors from backing Chinese AI companies directly.
Open-source 2D IDE for managing AI agents in native CLIs, terminal, gits, beads issues, and files across multiple projects and machines. Self-host on a single machine via localhost OR host on a cluster via Tailscale OR connect to app.49agents.com (coming soon) - 49Agents/49Agents
As a retro-computer enthusiast, it seems that parts are either insanely expensive or dirt cheap. If the first case has obvious problems, the second can also lead to issues. When I built the Quake PC, the motherboard and HDD were worth their weight in gold. But the price of RAM modules was ridiculously low. So I maxed out by buying $40,000 worth of 1997 SDRAM, namely 384 MiB, for the price of ...
SUPER ZSNES is a re-written SNES emulator with GPU power, offering features like fast forward, save states, and high resolution graphics. It's still in development with some games supported, but has emulation bugs and performance issues.
The IEEE 754 floating point standard defines a special value called Not-a-Number (NaN) which can be used to represent non-floating point values and their types in dynamically typed languages by storing them in the 51-bit payload. This technique, called NaN-boxing, is used in JavaScriptCore, SpiderMonkey, and LuaJIT to store non-float values and their types in NaNs, allowing for efficient ...
GitHub Copilot will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, with a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits for each plan. Credits will be consumed based on token usage, and users can purchase additional usage if needed.
The DSPi transforms a Raspberry Pi Pico into a digital audio processor with features like room correction, active crossovers, and parametric EQ. It acts as a USB sound card with onboard DSP engine.
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Dirac is an open-source coding agent that improves accuracy and reduces costs by 64.8% with tightly curated context. It achieves 100% accuracy on complex refactoring tasks at a fraction of the cost of other leading agents.
The author discusses the formalisation of mathematics and the rise of Lean, but notes that it's not the first system to achieve this. They mention AUTOMATH, which was developed in the 1960s and 1970s, and other systems like HOL Light and Isabelle/HOL. The author argues that Lean's success is partly due to its user community and the abandonment of "constructive proofs".
pgBackRest is a reliable PostgreSQL backup and restore solution that scales up to large databases and workloads. It supports parallel processing, compression, and block-level backups for efficient data storage and retrieval.
Git looks like a version-control tool. It is also a content-addressed database, a filesystem cache, a graph walker, and a transfer protocol. This book is about those layers and the performance costs of each one. It starts with objects, refs, the index, and history traversal, then moves outward into packfiles, maintenance, sparse working trees, partial clone, transport, repository scale, ...