Some 550 years ago, a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro set out to create a world map. Rather than myth and religion, it was based on solid evidence for the first time

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

A crowd sourced collection of classic Operating Systems books.

After my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, Apple refused to unlock it. Only after emailing Tim Cook could I get it unlocked.

Gos hófst um fjóra kílómetra norðaustan Grindavíkur, norðan Sundhnúks í Sundhnúkaröðinni, klukkan 22:17 í kvöld.

Demetrious Polychron ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed his copyright

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This essay provides an overview of the main claims and basic motivations for hylomorphism, the view that all material objects consist of both matter and form.

[EMNLP'23, ACL'24] To speed up LLMs' inference and enhance LLM's perceive of key information, compress the prompt and KV-Cache, which achieves up to 20x compression ...

We observe a considerable hysteresis effect of low-field microwave absorption (LFMA) in copper-substituted lead apatite. By continuously rotating samples under external magnetic field, this effect...

At its newest factory at the foot of Mount Fuji, the company, one of the few that’s listed, can produce 15,000 units of the bean curd each hour.

As ratings become more important, businesses try guilt-tripping and bullying customers

Google could do more than just win the chatbot war: it is the one company that could make a universal assistant. The question is if the company is willing to risk it all.

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This year, we saw a dazzling application of machine learning. The OpenAI GPT…

A concrete and scientific approach to learn chess quickly as an adult.

Improvement Suggestion My understanding is dae is supposed to run on Linux >= 5.8, let's (let me) add some test via github action against different kernels. I am proposing to use cilium/litt...

It comes in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.