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Oolite: An open source open-world space opera
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How Antithesis finds bugs
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Antithesis
How Antithesis finds bugs (with help from the Super Mario Bros.)
Can solving Super Mario Bros. help solve your distributed systems issues?
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Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system
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Tom's Hardware
Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and…
'Qommodore 64' born from 2,500 lines of MOS 6502 assembly code.
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Collapse of self-trained language models
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arXiv.org
Collapse of Self-trained Language Models
In various fields of knowledge creation, including science, new ideas often build on pre-existing information. In this work, we explore this concept within the context of language models....
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CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred for Deceiving Students and Hiding Loan Costs | Consumer…
The CFPB issued an order against BloomTech and its CEO for deceiving students about the cost of loans and making false claims about graduates’ hiring rates.
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Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project
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Substack
Cyc: history's forgotten AI project
Since 1984 a secretive AI project has been building a massive knowledge base to enable human-like reasoning. Will it work?
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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The Marginalian
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
“Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”
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Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019)
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Never Was
Flying Aircraft Carriers
From the flying British aircraft carriers in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to the helicarriers of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Desert city of Dubai floods as UAE hit by heaviest rainfall in 75 years
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the Guardian
Desert city of Dubai floods as heaviest rainfall in 75 years hits UAE
City records more than 142mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year and a half, as highways and malls flooded
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Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
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tonsky.me
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
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House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties
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The Hill
House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties
The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit how the government can purchase data from third parties — legislation that scored a vote after negotiations with a group of GOP colleagu…
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The Making of Django Reinhardt
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Messy Nessy Chic
Django's Journey: The Making of the Nomadic King of French Swing
Django's Journey: The Making of the Nomadic King of French Swing - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic
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Short Stack – World’s Smallest Nintendo Wii
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GitHub
GitHub - loopj/short-stack: World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs
World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs - loopj/short-stack
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Lambda School and founder banned from all student lending
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Josh (@JoshuaOgundu) on X
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau permanently banned BloomTech aka Lambda School from all consumer-lending activities and bans the CEO Austen Allred from any student-lending activities for ten years
Wow.
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Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
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New York Post
Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
In a companywide memo obtained by The Post, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said their “behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”
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The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
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MIT Technology Review
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
Axiom Space and other companies are betting they can build private structures to replace the International Space Station.
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Goldene: A single atom layer of gold
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liu.se
A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene
For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. According to the researchers from LiU this has given the gold new properties that can make it suitable for use in various applications.
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Only <SPAN>s
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Joseph Priestley created revolutionary "maps" of time
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Joseph Priestley Created Revolutionary "Maps" of Time
The most significant design feature of Priestley’s chart—as historians point out—was the way in which he linked units of time to units of distance on the page, similar to the way a cartographer uses scale when creating a map.
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
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Ars Technica
Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
One does not simply suggest changing a kernel line to help out a parsing tool.
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Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
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