Leaders are paid to think clearly. And a big impediment to clear thinking is what CBT/REBT calls Cognitive Distortions: errors in thinking or thinking traps we commonly fall for. Most high-performers are not pathological, but instead fall for them when upset…

Finding that 70% of attention heads and 20% of feed-forward networks can be excised with minimal effect on in-context learning suggests that large language models are undertrained.

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Hello everyone! We are workers at @fastmail@mastodon.social US, and we're so excited to share that we are forming a union with CWA!

We look forward to working with Fastmail leadership to build a future we are all proud of, and continuing…

Learn strategies and tactics for better results using large language models in the OpenAI API.

“What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it's not a Black Mirror episode—it's Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use…

While the holidays are quickly approaching, the System76 developers working on their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution and new Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment haven't been losing focus

What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us

The food safety agency continues to investigate dozens of incidents of lead poisoning in U.S. children linked to three brands of cinnamon applesauce pouches.

Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.

Reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers, or How I Bricked My Christmas Lights If a device communicates via Bluetooth LE and has an app, it deserves to be integrated into my home automation system. I’ve spent a significant amount of time reverse…

A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.

Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for use in irrigation, and slash…

A unified framework for 3D content generation. Contribute to threestudio-project/threestudio development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mary Ratcliffe (pictured), who has died aged 98, worked at a secret code breaking base in Middlesex, helping to decode Nazis messages, using machines invented by Alan Turing.

A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io

Another cautionary tale about letting big tedious companies on to your federated communication protocol:

In the early 2000s there was a brief beautiful period where every person I wanted to talk to could be reached by XMPP from my personal ejabberd server.…

Nature - Researchers have begun examining the pristine space rocks collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

The Kong Gateway CI was failing intermittently (about once every 100 runs) on the ARM64 platform with a strange error. Here's how we fixed the error.