When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer

Diffusion Forcing: a sequence model that combines next-token prediction and full-sequence diffusion

Understanding Deep Learning - Simon J.D. Prince. Contribute to udlbook/udlbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

Starting on July 1st, we’re breaking down pricing for Machines, including additional RAM, by region. For as long as we’ve offered Machines in multiple regions, we’ve had a flat price. If you gave us $0.00000075, we’d run you a shared-1x-256mb Machine for…

What if you had to fight against your company's culture to bring a revolutionary tool to life? Meet Jeffrey Snover, the Microsoft architect behind PowerShell, a command tool that transformed Windows system administration. Initially met with skepticism, Snover's…

How do you find near-duplicates in a massive collection of documents?
An exploration of the Jaccard similarity metric, and the MinHash hashing
trick used to efficiently approximate it at web scale.

Twilio has confirmed a data breach after hackers leaked 33 million phone numbers associated with the Authy app.

Electricity prices have been steadily rising in France for the past few years, with a particularly sharp increase since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This has led me to wonder about my own electricity consumption and how I could optimize…

The mechanical computer uses a complex structure of rigid, interconnected polymer cubes to store, retrieve and erase data without relying on electronic components.

The oldest example of cave art has been discovered on an Indonesian island and dated back 51,200 years.

Joel David Hamkins, “How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom,” Mathematics arXiv (2024), arxiv:2407.02463.

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Context WebGPU is not a native graphics API, as in no hardware vendor provides specific drivers for their GPUs targeting this API. Instead…

Objectives Muscle function and size decline with age, but long-term effects of resistance training in older adults are largely unknown. Here, we explored the long-lasting (3 years) effects of 1 year of supervised resistance training with heavy loads.Methods…