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Monetagium – monetary extortion in feudal Europe
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www.moneyness.ca
Monetagium
An English penny minted by William the Conqueror, who brought monetagium to England. Source: History in Coins The way that a modern mafia pr...
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Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid
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the Guardian
OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid
Sam Altman’s ChatGPT promises to transform the global economy. But it also poses an enormous threat. Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the danger in AI – and in Altman himself
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How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)
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PC Gamer
How WASD became the standard PC control scheme
Had history gone differently, it might have been EDSF or even ASXC.
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Open Source Farming Robot
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FarmBot
FarmBot | Open-Source CNC Farming
Farming and gardening robots for home, educational, and commercial use. Premium Hardware · Worldwide Shipping · Drag and Drop Farm Designer · Step-by-Step Assembly Instructions · Own Your Food
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Taiwan is behind schedule in preparations to fend off Chinese invasion
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Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives
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AnandTech
Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives
In an unexpected announcement during their quarterly earnings call this week, Western Digital revealed that it has begun sampling an upcoming 32TB hard drive. The nearline HDD is aimed at hyperscalers, and relies on a combination of Westen Digital's EAMR…
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How I Use AI (Nicholas Carlini)
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Carlini
How I Use "AI"
I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.
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Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
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The Verge
Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.
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Show HN: Plain Vanilla – a tutorial website for vanilla web development
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Plainvanillaweb
Plain Vanilla
An explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques.
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Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter
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Repeatable Systems
Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter
If you work with Protocol Buffers (protobuf), you can really save time, boredom, and headache by parsing your defin…
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Non-computability of solutions of certain equations on digital computers (2022)
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arXiv.org
On non-detectability of non-computability and the degree of...
It is known that there exist mathematical problems of practical relevance which cannot be computed on a Turing machine. An important example is the calculation of the first derivative of...
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Sega Jet Rocket: The '70s arcade game with no computer or screen
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New Atlas
Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen
Back in 1970, Sega introduced an arcade game that would pave the way for many of today's most popular video games. Known as Jet Rocket, the electromechanical marvel boasted several world-firsts – even though most people today don't know it ever existed.
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Can reading make you happier? (2015)
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The New Yorker
Can Reading Make You Happier?
After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.
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Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020)
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Righto
Reverse-engineering the first FPGA chip, the XC2064
A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) can implement arbitrary digital logic, anything from a microprocessor to a video generator or crypt...
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The Introverts Are Winning
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newhumanist.org.uk
The introverts are winning
Technology is enabling us to retreat from the outside world. But we should resist the urge – for ourselves and for each other
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Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 13: the end
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LLM as Database Administrator (2023)
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arXiv.org
D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models
Database administrators (DBAs) play an important role in managing, maintaining and optimizing database systems. However, it is hard and tedious for DBAs to manage a large number of databases and...
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TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips
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Google Cloud Blog
TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips | Google Cloud Blog
Google has been a leader on AI development for more than a decade by also being a leader in chip development for more than a decade.
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racket/rhombus: "We're now officially in the "integration" phase for Rhombus."
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GitHub
Phase 3: integration · racket rhombus · Discussion #521
We're now officially in the "integration" phase for Rhombus. This repo has been renamed to racket/rhombus, but racket/rhombus-prototype redirects here. The repo content has been split...
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Git: The Stupid Password Store
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Tylercipriani
Git the stupid password store - Tyler Cipriani
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USB Sniffer Lite for RP2040
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