In David Schmidt's PhD work he explored the use of denotational semantics as a programming language. It was part of an effort to not only treat formal semantics as specifications but also as...

A STAT Investigation: Brain biopsies on "vulnerable" patients at Mount Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA, documents show.

MIT astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way’s “halo” — the cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main galactic disk — and they appear to have formed…

Android rolls out theft protection features to safeguard your data before, during and after a theft incident.

PaliGemma is a vision language model (VLM) developed and released by Google that has multimodal capabilities. Learn how to use it.

This change upstreams llamafile's vectorized expf() functions. This lets us compute softmax and silu more accurately than the short[65536] lookup table that GGML previously used to make thi...

Workplace surveillance tools are extremely popular. Some may also be illegal.

We've open sourced the code for Project Gameface so developers and enterprises can leverage it to build new experiences with increased accessibility.

Just 50 years after the Roman Empire grew to its largest size, a mysterious and crippling pandemic known as the Antonine plague brought it to its knees. Research on climate change and in other areas is shedding light into how the plague, which preceded centuries…

Learn how we discovered what was slowing down large database queries, and what we did to make Postgres queries 1000x faster.

Automate production logistics - logging, trannoscription, organization, and rough cut assembly. Scale video operations without adding costs.

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Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastr…

We've been building a bridge from React Router to Remix, and we made it so good that we're going to merge the two projects.

Plane, like any other open-source B2B software, offers both a Cloud hosted edition and a self-managed one. While our Cloud users far outnumber our self-hosted users, it's nice to see for an early-stage start-up like ours an estimated 50,000+ active self-managed…

This may be obvious to many people already, but I recently thought about this in a few scenarios and figured it may be valuable to articulate it clearly. One note before the main discussion is we s…