Curious what the first ‘unused’ alphabetic acronym is, I have GPT-4 write a noscript to check English Wikipedia. After three bugs, the first unused one turns out as of 2023-09-29 to be the three-letter acronym ‘CQK’, with another 2.6k TLA unused, and 393k four…

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

Centrus Energy delivers first batch of uranium that’s critical for advanced reactors

A recent paper The Reversal Curse points out an apparent failure in large large language models like GPT-4. From the abstract: We expose a surprising failure of generalization in auto-regressive la…

Userspace eBPF runtime for Observability, Network, GPU & General Extensions Framework - eunomia-bpf/bpftime

The recruiting fight between OpenAI and Google is growing fiercer. As OpenAI proceeds with an employee share sale that would nearly triple the startup’s valuation to more than $80 billion, its recruiters are courting top artificial intelligence employees…

The best-case scenario is that you annoy the maintainers.

American men's life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women's 79.1. While women generally live longer than men, the gap has expanded in recent years.

The Elder Millennial Nostalgia Tour

An approach to simplify finding LaTeX symbols.

Introduction Recently, I watched a video by YouTuber ThePrimeTime which details a dev’s frustrations with business culture. Prime is an ex-entrepreneur who currently works in software development at Netflix. His views in this video have been criticised for…

12 weeks, 26 lessons, 52 quizzes, classic Machine Learning for all - microsoft/ML-For-Beginners

A high-fat and low-carbohydrate diet was administered as a complementary and alternative therapy to a 54-year-old man suffering from non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with brain metastasis. Three months after the cessation of chemotherapy and radiotherapy…

“Rushing from stove to typewriter like a mad hen...”

‘NOVELIST LECTURER VANISHES’ announced a headline in The Sheffield Telegraph on Wednesday, June 26, 1963. ‘What has happened to Kathleen Sully, the writer [...]

:microscope: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths. - github/scientist