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When America first dropped acid
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The New Yorker
When America First Dropped Acid
Well before the hippies arrived, LSD and other hallucinogens were poised to enter the American mainstream.
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LoRA from Scratch implementation for LLM finetuning
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Lightning AI
Code LoRA from Scratch - a Lightning Studio by sebastian
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is a popular technique to finetune LLMs more efficiently.
This Studio explains how LoRA works by coding it from scratch, which is an excellent exercise for looking under …
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Expensive fridges are dying young. Owners are suing, claiming fraud
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NBC Bay Area
Expensive fridges are dying young. Owners are suing, claiming fraud
Some owners of LG and Kenmore fridges that broke down far sooner than they should have are now suing the companies, claiming fraud.
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How Far Could the Sun Possibly Be?
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Of Particular Significance
How Far Could the Sun Possibly Be?
The Greeks found the minimum possible distance to the Sun is a few million miles. Today we'll see how the speed of light can provide a maximum distance.
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Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft facing lawsuit for shutting down game
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GAMINGbible
Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft facing lawsuit for shutting down fan-favourite game
A dedicated fan is suing Ubisoft over the shutting down of a beloved game.
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Show HN:
Vx.dev
– GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development
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BiomeJS 2024 Roadmap
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Biome
Roadmap 2024
Roadmap 2024 and new logo
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New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
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Quanta Magazine
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.
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Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
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Ars Technica
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
Create a bootable, working Pokémon game by recording it crash multiple times.
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Cervical Cancer incidence drops 65% in women who benefited from HPV vaccine
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NBC News
A little too old for HPV vaccine? Cervical cancer rising among women in their 30s and 40s
However, among women in their early 20s who have benefitted from the HPV vaccine, cervical cancer incidence plummeted by 65% from 2012 to 2019.
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Datalog in 100 lines of JavaScript (2022)
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Instantdb
Datalog in Javanoscript
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There is way too much serendipity
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Lesswrong
There is way too much serendipity — LessWrong
As we all know, sugar is sweet and so are the $30B in yearly revenue from the artificial sweetener industry. …
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Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
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Inngest
How we built a fair multi-tenant queuing system - Inngest Blog
Building the Inngest queue - Part I
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Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers
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The Wall Street Journal
Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of Six Papers by Top Researchers
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is reviewing more than 50 papers for research misconduct, including work of the hospital’s CEO.
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My Toddler Still Loves Planes, So I Upgraded Her Radar
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Jacob’s Tech Tavern
My Toddler Still Loves Planes, So I Upgraded Her Radar
An adorable set of release notes
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British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message
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Bbc
British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax
Aditya Verma sent a Snapchat message in July 2022 saying he was about to "blow up" a plane.
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Passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing, flight canceled
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New York Post
NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing
"I'm a good flyer, but my partner was not loving the information I was telling her and starting to panic," British traveler Phil Hardy said of the moment he spotted the missing fixings.
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Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
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Ars Technica
Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
AST SpaceMobile gets $206.5 million and is partnering with Google and AT&T.
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Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine
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Performance Analysis of Python's Dict() and {}
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MadeByMe
Performance Analysis of Python's `dict()` and `{}`
Some time ago, during a code review, I had a discussion with a colleague of mine about preferring dict() over {} in new Python code. They argued that dict() is more readable — and expresses intent more clearly — therefore should be preferred. I wasn’t convinced…
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Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
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Right to Repair Europe
The Price Is Not Right - Right to Repair Europe
This article exposes the unfair reality of spare part prices. To make repair affordable, we need reasonable prices for original parts, clear acceptance for the use of compatible parts (third party, used or 3D-printed) and a solid ban on parts pairing.
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