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Personalizing Emacs Doc Navigation
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Yummymelon
Personalizing Emacs Doc Navigation
TBH, I’ve long had a love/hate relationship with the documentation modes (e.g. Info, Help, Man, Shortdoc) provided by Emacs. While I’m grateful for their existence, I’ve never been enamored of...
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AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking
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ExtremeTech
AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled
The formerly secret fuse will let AMD know you were overclocking if things go sideways.
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The AI Trust Crisis
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
The AI trust crisis
Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new …
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The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You've Never Heard of Is a Step Closer
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Michael Geist
The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Is a Step Closer to Becoming Law
After years of battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, few Canadians will have the appetite for yet another troubling Internet bill. But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites…
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Ubiquiti showing other users' consoles
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Turing Awardees Republished Key Methods and Ideas Without Credit
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people.idsia.ch
How 3 Turing Awardees Republished Key Methods and Ideas
Whose Creators They Failed to Credit
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Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults
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popular.info
Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults
New advertisements by Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, prey on the financial anxieties of Gen Z and other young adults. The ads, which are on heavy rotation on cable television, depict the modern economic system as rigged. In one of the ads, a young woman…
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Ledger Wallet's LedgerHQ/connect-kit hit by supply chain attack
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Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 yrs with the leading K8s package manager
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glasskube.eu
5 shortcomings of Helm | Glasskube
Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.
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FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs
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Google DeepMind
FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models
We introduce FunSearch, a method for searching for “functions” written in computer code, and find new solutions in mathematics and computer science. FunSearch works by pairing a pre-trained LLM, whos…
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The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born
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Vice
The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born
As the web declines, we pause to talk about the death of criticism and what happens when someone rips off your work.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
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WIRED
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker. A WIRED investigation reveals the true scale of the project—and its impact on the local community.
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Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees
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The Register
Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees
If it looks like a job, and is supervised like a job, it'll be classified as a job
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization
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Openai
Weak-to-strong generalization
We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?
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JWST Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star
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Smithsonian Magazine
James Webb Telescope Captures Image of Supernova That ‘Absolutely Shattered’ a Star
The new image gives astronomers a near-infrared look at the stellar explosion called Cassiopeia A, located around 11,000 light years away from Earth
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Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?
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Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?
Memory constraints in ye olden days meant that text-mode display adapters had room for either upper or lower case, but not both. Why was this universally uppercase and never lowercase?
I remember r...
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Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer(2016)
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Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
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The Mozilla Blog
Our journey to an open extension ecosystem to benefit all
Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at
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Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy from Air
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Nice News
Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy From Air
The team successfully harvested energy from air humidity in a predictable and continuous manner, and they say the tech can be applied broadly.
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Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'
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Tom's Hardware
Intel CEO attacks Nvidia on AI: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'
Reframing the AI framework, away from CUDA and toward more open standards.
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S-LoRA: Serving Concurrent LoRA Adapters
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GitHub
GitHub - S-LoRA/S-LoRA: S-LoRA: Serving Thousands of Concurrent LoRA Adapters
S-LoRA: Serving Thousands of Concurrent LoRA Adapters - S-LoRA/S-LoRA
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