@zwol@hackers.town M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4.

The original Unix M4 was weird, and there weren't really any good explanations for why it was the way it was. Apparently someone at Bell labs needed a preprocessor…

Alex Langstaff calls “Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain” a must-read for anyone interested in how the Iron Curtain was circumvented in the digital age....

PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. Contribute to migueletto/PumpkinOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

by Ashutosh JogalekarDuring a wartime visit to England in early 1943, John von Neumann wrote a letter to his fellow mathematician Oswald Veblen at the

Stanford Medicine study shows that large language models can lend a hand to clinicians in responding to patient email messages.

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Groq, now a cloud services provider, plans to deploy 42,000 LPU chips into GroqCloud this year, with a similar number deployed in partner clouds.

Aerial monitoring of hundreds of landfills finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the EPA.

Disturbed gut flora during the first years of life is associated with diagnoses such as autism and ADHD later in life. This is according to a study led by researchers at the University of Florida and ...

Given the massive cost of language model pre-training, a non-trivial improvement of the optimization algorithm would lead to a material reduction on the time and cost of training. Adam and its...

As China's fleet grows, the U.S. is struggling with fresh delays in building new subs and warships.

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A compendium of video conversations and code for folks building large-scale optimization models and integrating these into real-time applications in the wild.

X11 window management toolkit. Contribute to FascinatedBox/bonk development by creating an account on GitHub.

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