Next time your Linux laptop crashes, pull out your watch (or your cell phone) and time how long [...]

Part One of a series on how I came to be writing for O’reilly, and what the process is like

There are almost eight billion of us on this planet, ten thousand likely very similar to yourself. The Internet is a typical person’s best hope for finding and connecting with them.
Mount Sanitas Summit west, Boulder, CO I enjoy life in large part thanks…

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Acetaminophen – a potent physical painkiller that also reduces empathy for other people’s suffering – blunts physical and social pain by reducing activation in brain areas (i.e. anterior insula and anterior cingulate) thought to ...

Payload unpacks NASA Administrator Bill Nelson's testimony in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee on cost-plus contracts.

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Behind the scenes on what it takes to train a state of the art language model - 100 pages of raw notes released with the 175B parameter large language model OPT-175. There's a lot more trial and error than people like to admit in modern AI github.com/facebookresear…

Introduction In 2006, the National Institutes of Health Reform Act passed Congress. 1 This droll, political document established a Scientific Management Review Board within the NIH. That board — comprised of Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former Lockheed Martin CEO…

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If you want to watch the video, it is below: I just released this video a week ago but I already have something that I want to add to it. Previous early signs of bad semiconductor business cycles have come through rising inventories in downstream industries…

Walkthrough of the MyUHC Reimbursement Form Adventure Game - MyUHCAdventure/MyUHCAdventure.github.io

Where are the low level system engineers? Specifically the people writing C or C++ hacking on kernels, device drivers, and file systems. Code schools don't seem to be teaching this stuff and some universities have moved up the stack. Are we even training…

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