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Candy – a minimalistic functional programming language
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GitHub
GitHub - candy-lang/candy:
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A sweet, functional programming language that is robust, minimalistic, and expressive.
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A sweet, functional programming language that is robust, minimalistic, and expressive. - candy-lang/candy
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GenAI and erroneous medical references
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Stanford HAI
Generating Medical Errors: GenAI and Erroneous Medical References
A new study finds that large language models used widely for medical assessments cannot back up claims.
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Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Deeper Cut: Lovecraftian Movie Posters From Ghana
The first regular movie screenings in Gold Coast colony took place in Accra shortly after 1900 when traveling showmen from other parts of West Africa began screening their wares in various coastal …
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Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service
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koreatimes
Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service
The Korean telecommunications watchdog said Friday it has slapped a fine of 435 million won ($327,067) on the U.S. live video streaming platform Twitch, which suspended its video-on-demand (VOD) service in the country last year.
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Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning
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AFTVnews
Amazon blocks long-running Fire TV capability — Breaking popular apps with no warning and giving developers the runaround
Amazon’s recent streak of unpopular Fire TV changes continues, and its latest change is a doozy. The most recent Fire TV software update has blocked a Fire TV capability that has been present since the original model's release in 2014.
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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
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arXiv.org
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
Deep learning's successes are often attributed to its ability to automatically discover new representations of the data, rather than relying on handcrafted features like other learning methods. We...
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A giant meteorite has been lost in the desert since 1916
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Ars Technica
A giant meteorite has been lost in the desert since 1916—here’s how we might find it
A tale of "sand dunes, a guy named Gaston, secret aeromagnetic surveys, and camel drivers."
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Iterating over bit sets quickly
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Alexharri
Iterating over Bit Sets really quickly
Multiplying iteration speed by exploiting two's complement and Hamming weights.
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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
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The Roots of Progress
Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
A bigger world is better for everyone
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Africanhistoryextra
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Bought a Prison Laptop on eBay
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X (formerly Twitter)
Wenting mostly on bsky (@zephray_wenting) on X
Bought a prison laptop on eBay. Thought it should be just some generic laptop with a clear shell, turns out it's actually a bit more than that.
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Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
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Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Stike
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I'm Coder
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Davidson Fellipe
I'm coder, an app for fake coders
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Documentation for the JSON Lines text file format
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Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, according to Google court filings
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9to5Mac
Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, according to Google court filings - 9to5Mac
In September, Bloomberg reported that Apple had held exploratory talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing as recently as 2020. In...
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Tacit programming
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Miracle of Wörgl
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Writing and art by Alex Stone
Writing and art by Alex Stone ~ Miracle of Wörgl
In these days of miracle and wonder (not), when our collective orbit has been reduced to the home office, larger questions abound.
Like, what is the future of money? Can it still work? Or, can it work in a different way? Who gets to give you money, when…
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Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
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arXiv.org
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts...
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I'm confused: what's with the project denoscriptions at
HTTPS://pkgx.dev/pkgs/
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pkgx.dev
Run Anything
Blazingly fast, standalone, cross‐platform binary that runs anything
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A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)
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NY Times
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (Published 2006)
Detailed records of searches underscore how much people reveal about themselves when they use search engines.
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