The author discusses the potential for ambitious software projects, citing examples of successful projects like pgrust and Azul AI. They argue that with advancements in capabilities, it's now possible to build more complex and high-quality software without requiring extensive expertise or resources. The author also notes that while some people may be able to achieve impressive results with ...
Cerebras wafer-scale chips are used to deploy large models, with a single chip having 44 GB of on-chip memory. The model Kimi K3, with ~3 trillion parameters, is split across multiple wafers to run at 1000-2000+ tokens per second.
Licasa is an open-source image viewer and editor for Linux, available as a package or AppImage. It can be installed using various methods, including downloading from GitHub or building from source with Docker.
Goose is a memory-safe systems language that runs faster than C++ and Rust while using less memory, with syntax familiar to C and Rust programmers. It has no heap allocator, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations.
SpeedCrunch is a free, open-source scientific calculator for Windows, macOS and Linux, with 50-digit precision, complex numbers and unit conversion.
The author discusses the appeal of tiny programming languages and implementations, citing examples such as Forth, Lisp, and Lua. These small programs can be more accessible and easier to understand than larger ones.
The US has lost over 200k jobs in creative industries, with a significant decline in the last year, mainly due to AI systems that can produce digital art at low costs. The impact of AI on media businesses is still unclear but may lead to near-total collapse of their business models.
User reflects on the trend of younger generations seeking simpler times, citing nostalgia for low-tech devices like flip phones and vi editors. They acknowledge the benefits and drawbacks of modern technology, recognizing a need to balance progress with simplicity.
This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period. How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882, 5th-generation craftsman Yasuhisa Serizawa still uses the 200-year-old “tebiyama” hand-fired smoke-drying method that only a few ...
The author built a cheap stereo vision board using the Rockchip RV1103 microprocessor, enabling obstacle avoidance and navigation in robotics projects. The board uses Linux support and various hardware accelerators for image processing tasks.
Pragtical v3.14.0 brings various interface improvements, including application menus and flexible placement of command prompts, as well as lower idle CPU usage. The release also includes new features such as workspace session management and a refreshed Plugin Manager.
A Figma user discovered a bug in 2021 that was actually an old convention from IBM's 1977 System/34 computer, where pressing Shift+2 on the numeric keypad worked differently than on the regular keyboard. The issue was resolved by understanding how this convention had been carried over through Windows versions and fixed with browser disambiguation.
Researchers analyzed tooth enamel from 10 individuals in the Peak District, a medieval lead-producing region in England, to study childhood exposure to lead pollution. The results show that high levels of lead contamination were present among communities involved in lead production by the mid-7th century AD and remained elevated until at least the 16th century.
This service offers domain registration, DNS management, and easy updates for $5/month. It also provides features like subdomains, stealth flags, and wildcard DNS with a 50-subdomain limit.
ok is a virtual machine with devices for input/output, math operations, and disk I/O. It provides a standard set of devices to turn into a full-fledged fantasy computer.
The author reflects on how a simple online document writing platform's limitations made it more engaging for their kids, contrasting with the feature-rich Scratch program. They suggest that simplicity and structure can be beneficial in learning and creativity, allowing users to explore without feeling overwhelmed by too many options.
A widely used compression library Brotli has a known security vulnerability, dubbed "node2shell," which can cause memory leaks or execute arbitrary code. Users are advised to upgrade their libraries and applications that use Brotli until patches become available.
If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.
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Researchers at EPFL have developed an implantable neural chip called LogSync that tracks brain activity and identifies cognitive and emotional states in real-time. The system uses machine-learning algorithms to analyze network-level biomarkers and generate stimulation triggers for severe psychiatric illnesses.
Researchers introduced a training-free method for achieving frontier coding performance, using ledger-based zero-shot self-orchestration. This approach yields gains of up to 25.6 percentage points on pinned backends and offers two routes to frontier-level accuracy at a fraction of the cost.
Roku has moved its developer resources from GitHub to GitLab, consolidating documentation, samples, and tools into a single location. Users need to update bookmarked or stored repository URLs and adjust pipelines that reference raw file URLs.
This Linux kernel module unlocks NVIDIA GPUs for faster performance, doubling instruction issuing speed on GA102, GA103, GA104 and GA106 cards. It can be appended to the boot options line or installed through a package manager like make install.
A new optimizer, OPAL (OPtimizer with an Agent in the Loop), is proposed that adapts to training dynamics during runtime. It watches the training process and rewrites its own code as needed, allowing it to respond to unexpected loss spikes or stalls. The agent uses analysis.py to extract information from the training state and updater.py to write new optimization rules.
How bbtree, a drop-in replacement for std's BTreeMap, cuts cache misses, instructions and cache coherence traffic, and how it is kept correct.
Scientists have successfully trapped a single subatomic particle of antimatter, called a positron, for months using a special trap. This achievement could help explain why the universe is made mostly of matter and not antimatter.
Emergency Action Messages heard on the HF Global Communications System, copied off air.
The author worked on a VGA driver project in their Digital Logic Design Lab, building a system that could display images on an old CRT monitor. They used a FPGA to control the display and implemented various logic circuits to handle timing, color mapping, and image loading.