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Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video]
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[Scheme'22] Programming is (should be) fun!
Programming is (should be) fun!
Gerald Jay Sussman (MIT)
Programming is not coding! Programming a medium for creative expression. Composing a good program can be an esthetic experience similar to writing a story, a piece of music, or poetry,
A good programming…
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Show HN: PDF to Podcast – Convert Any PDF into a Podcast Episode
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Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 Saves 75 Years Ago Today
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The War Zone
Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First Of 7,722 Saves 75 Years Ago Today
Jo Lancaster escaped from a stricken flying-wing test plane almost 75 years to the day that a Martin Baker seat saved an F-35 pilot.
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Accessing Math Solutions via Monte Carlo Self-Refine with LLaMa-3 8B
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arXiv.org
Accessing GPT-4 level Mathematical Olympiad Solutions via Monte...
This paper introduces the MCT Self-Refine (MCTSr) algorithm, an innovative integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), designed to enhance performance in...
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How Meta trains large language models at scale
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Engineering at Meta
How Meta trains large language models at scale
As we continue to focus our AI research and development on solving increasingly complex problems, one of the most significant and challenging shifts we’ve experienced is the sheer scale of co…
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Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000
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CNA
Fired employee accessed company’s computer 'test system' and deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000
The 39-year-old man, who was "confused and upset" after being fired, deleted 180 virtual servers from NCS' computer system.
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Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
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staniks.github.io
Serious Engine Networking - Dive-in Analysis
Personal website and blog.
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VRChat is Laying Off 30% of Team
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VRChat Ask Forum
An Email from our CEO
Below is the full text of an email sent to our team today. Aside from removing some email addresses and formatting, there are no redactions or edits. To: All VRChat Employees Personal and Company Emails From: Graham Gaylor, CEO Subject: Important Announcement…
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Mushroom Hunters Can't Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi
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NY Times
The Mushroom Hunters Can’t Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi
For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi.
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Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization
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Stamen
Designing the Avocado of Uncertainty | Stamen
Perhaps you’ve noticed over the past decade how that “once in a century” forest fire or hurricane seems to be appearing in the news more often than its name would imply. With temperatures increasing due to climate change, natural disasters are increasing…
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Uncensor Any LLM with Abliteration
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huggingface.co
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
A Blog post by Maxime Labonne on Hugging Face
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Pg_lakehouse: A DuckDB Alternative in Postgres
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AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference
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Tensorwave
AMD’s MI300X Outperforms NVIDIA’s H100 for LLM Inference
There has been much anticipation around AMD's flagship MI300X accelerator. With unmatched raw specs, the pressing question remains: Can it outperform NVIDIA's Hopper architecture in real-world AI workloads? We have some exciting early results to share.
For…
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Microsoft's Nadella is building an AI empire
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The Wall Street Journal
Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step.
After landing the deal that launched his company to the front of the artificial-intelligence race, the tech chief is spreading his bets. Will it be enough?
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Spilo: High Availability PostgreSQL cluster using Docker
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GitHub
GitHub - zalando/spilo: Highly available elephant herd: HA PostgreSQL cluster using Docker
Highly available elephant herd: HA PostgreSQL cluster using Docker - zalando/spilo
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Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
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XDA
Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
The legal battle between Arm and Qualcomm continues
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Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world
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Electrek
Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world
Germany's automakers manufactured around 1.27 million BEVs and PHEVs in 2023, putting it at No. 2 behind China, but 2024 will be bumpy.
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Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll
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Avherald
Accident: Southwest B38M enroute on May 25th 2024, Dutch Roll
Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation
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Indian Startup 3D Prints Rocket Engine in Just 72 Hours
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IEEE Spectrum
Indian Startup 3D Prints Rocket Engine in Just 72 Hours
Agnikul’s successful launch is a step toward “on-demand” rocket launches
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iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in
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Iterm2
Downloads - iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm
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Potential Ozone Depletion from Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry
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AGU Journals
Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega‐Constellations
We present the first atomic-scale molecular dynamics simulation of high-temperature aluminum ablation during reentry from low-Earth orbit
The amount of aluminum oxide nanoparticles generated is q...
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