The loss dealt a big blow to its effort to build its fledgling foundry business.

Discover the story of the K340A, a one-of-a-kind computer that powered the Soviet Union's ambitious Duga radar system during the Cold War. Designed in 1966 and based on the Residue Classes System, it achieved a performance of 1 million operations per second…

Most of us don’t eat as much fruit and veggies as we know we should, but that goal might now be a bit more achievable. Scientists in Spain have engineered a new “Golden Lettuce” with 30 times more nutrients than the regular green stuff.

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None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative…

Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.

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Amazon's AWS cloud computing division already designs several chips for use in its data centers and has hired Intel to package at least one version.

Rearchitecting core services at X

Instructing the model to generate a sequence of intermediate steps, a.k.a., a chain of thought (CoT), is a highly effective method to improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) on...

A small business is suing Indiana after a box containing $43,000 was seized at Indy's FedEx hub.

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Franzelio is a visual musical instrument where you draw lines and make music. Share your creation with others!

It's hard to make friends as an adult. One lonely man in his 30s finds a nonjudgmental and supportive community at a local spin studio.

A discussion of why I don’t intend to turn Gwern.net into a book, and how trying to write a book can harm writers.

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