I’ve noticed a small but interesting trend in the programming languages space. I’m not sure how novel it is, but this pattern, which I’ll refer to as “biphasic programming,” is characterized by languages and frameworks that enable identical syntax to express…

The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine.

Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence.

Experts say time has run out to develop new sources of supply to avert crippling shortages on the east coast.

Creatine supplementation improves sit-to-stand performance, muscle function, and lean tissue mass. It is crucial to conduct high-quality prospective RCTs to confirm these hypotheses (PROSPERO number, CRD42023354929).

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The FreeDOS Project Celebrates 30 Years of Open Source. Jim Hall shares the origin story and the importance of community. Learn his seven key lessons for maintaining a thriving Open Source community.

A new class of editor has improved delivery, durability, tunability, and safety

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Translations: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) 1, Chinese (Simplified) 2, French 1, French 2, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish 1, Spanish…

New model additions
Gemma-2
The Gemma2 model was proposed in Gemma2: Open Models Based on Gemini Technology and Research by Gemma2 Team, Google.
Gemma2 models are trained on 6T tokens, and released...

I just want to see it. Just once. I want to watch that earthquake ripple through all of global electronic timekeeping. I want to see which organisations make it to January morning with nothing on fire.



You know what a leap second is. The short version…

A recent federal appeals court ruling against Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has the potential to open a new pathway for US citizens to sue over alleged preference for immigrant workers.

Geology chatbot prompts complaint, firing of top European geoscientist

At first I thought it was from a reader.

The Tegra X1 SoC featured in Nintendo’s Switch was meant to fill a variety of market segments including Android set top boxes and automotive applications. Hardware video encode and decode are…

Level of difficulty: insane

Build, Improve Performance, and Productionize your LLM Application with an Integrated Framework - palico-ai/palico-ai

An overview of the journey so far.

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[Note that this article is a trannoscript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not just that it goes over something, but that there’s clear space underneath for a river, railway, or road. Maybe this is already obvious to you, but bridges…