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Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job?
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The fascinating and complicated sex lives of white-throated sparrows
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Audubon
The Fascinating and Complicated Sex Lives of White-throated Sparrows
With their quadruple personalities, those little brown birds at your feeder are a lot more interesting than they might appear.
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Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default
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Rust for Filesystems
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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us yet Again
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Privacy Guides
"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again - Privacy Guides
'No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers' proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.
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A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth
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news.unsw.edu.au
Erica picked up a rock by chance 10 years ago. It might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth
A fossil found inside a souvenir 'pet rock' could push the start of complex life on Earth back by about 750 million years.
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Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
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Tom's Hardware
User alleges Gemini AI scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without explicit permission — Google says otherwise
Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.
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I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3)
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nrk.neocities.org
I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3)
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Google and Microsoft now each consume more power than some fairly big countries
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TechRadar
Google and Microsoft now each consume more power than some fairly big countries
Big Tech consumes more than many countries
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About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills (2022)
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APM Research Lab
Reading the numbers: 130 million American adults have low literacy skills — APM Research Lab
About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade…
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CURLoRA: Stable LLM Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation
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Zenodo
CURLoRA: Leveraging CUR Matrix Decomposition for Stable LLM Continual Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation
This paper introduces CURLoRA, a novel approach to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that leverages CUR matrix decomposition in the context of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our method addresses two critical challenges in LLM fine-tuning: mitigating catastrophic…
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"Nik": The Mesoamerican Representation of Zero (2021)
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Bulletin of the AAS
“Nik” — The Zero in Vigesimal Maya Mathematics · Vol. 53, Issue 1 (AAS237 Abstracts)
Presentation #336.03 in the session “Collaboration with Integrity: Partnerships with Indigenous Communities in the Americas and Polynesia”.
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Virginia Woolf's list-making paved the way for her literary experiments
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Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
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StorageReview.com
StorageReview Lab Breaks Pi Calculation World Record with Over 202 Trillion Digits
In an astounding display of computational prowess, the StorageReview Lab Team has set a consecutive world record by calculating pi to an incredible 202,112,290,000,000 digits. This remarkable achievement eclipses the previous record of 105 trillion digits…
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Soviet Calculators History (1998)
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Creature that washed up on New Zealand beach may be rarest whale
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CBS News
Creature that washed up on New Zealand beach may be world's rarest whale — a spade-toothed whale
Spade-toothed whales are the world's rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. Until, perhaps, now. One may have washed up onto a New Zealand beach.
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Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
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Ars Technica
Samsung’s abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
All it took was a reverse-engineered camera firmware and a custom API rewrite.
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The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy
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Smithsonian Magazine
How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans’ Privacy
Early photographers sold their snapshots to advertisers, who reused the individuals' likenesses without their permission
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The AMD Zen 5 Microarcitecure
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AnandTech
The AMD Zen 5 Microarchitecture: Powering Ryzen AI 300 Series For Mobile and Ryzen 9000 for Desktop
Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD's latest…
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HTML Tags Memory Test
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codepen.io
HTML Tags Memory Test
How many HTML tags can you remember?...
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Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve
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Caltech
Cosmic Simulation Reveals How Black Holes Grow and Evolve
A new computer simulation upends ideas about feeding black holes that astronomers have held since the 1970s.
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