It has been brought to my attention that I have never actually written this story down before, merely told it in person to many students for valuable lessons and also for laughs over cocktails. It is a litany of bad ideas from several people that all came…

It mistakenly entered all my business details in the search results for ‘How to contact Google in the UK’

Promoting repair improves the sustainable consumption of goods by consumers

The Retrieval-Augmented Language Model (RALM) has shown remarkable performance on knowledge-intensive tasks by incorporating external knowledge during inference, which mitigates the factual...

Dungeons & Dragons plans to publish a new Systems Reference Document alongside its new 2024 rulebooks, hammering the final nail in the OGL's coffin.

Retailers and rewards programs don’t actually need to scan a copy of your driver’s license, so don’t let them.

An implementation of Shazam's song recognition algorithm. - cgzirim/seek-tune

When I got off social media about a year ago, I wanted to replace it with something more productive, so I chose Hacker News. I had already been on HN for many years, but decided that I would start visiting it as often as I did with an app like Instagram or…

From Byju’s to Paytm, India’s top startups have lost tens of billions of dollars in value in recent years. Here’s a deep dive into what went wrong, and what it means for Modi's push to create home-grown tech champions

Aging parasitologists are working hard to inspire more students to enter the field

An extended “uses” post that outlines the hardware I’m
currently using, the software and tools that I use to
get things done, and how I configure things.

Learn more about Project Green Light, Google’s initiative to cut down on stop-and-go emissions.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is proposing a new rule that would ban airlines from charging parents more to sit with their young children.

It’s 2016 all over again. The FBI can’t get everything it wants from a dead person’s phone, so it has decided to start revving up its anti-encryption engine. The DOJ took Apple to…

We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of…

Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.

Or, Inference in Relational Space is Human-Hard

Flux, the largest SOTA open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion is now available on fal. Flux pushes the boundaries of creativity and performance with an impressive 12B parameters, delivering…