Recent work suggests that large language models may implicitly learn world models. How should we assess this possibility? We formalize this question for the case where the underlying reality is...

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.

The species evolved to exploit human-built environments and exists nowhere else. So where did it come from?

Improve Rosetta performance by adding support for the total store ordering (TSO) memory model to your Linux kernel.

Three months ago, I wrote about why you might want to use panics for error handling. Even though it’s a catchy noscript, panics are hardly suited for this goal, even if you try to hack around with macros and libraries. The real star is the unwinding mechanism…

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Self-hosted environment for programming tutorial by LLM - TutoriaLLM/TutoriaLLM

Incomplete data structures challenge our notion of mutability

For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’…

Notepad isn’t safe from AI.

While everyone was waiting on news for the successor of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo released the Alarmo. A small plastic alarm clock that ...

Re-routing the encryption

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its artificial intelligence models for military purposes, the company said on Monday, in a shift from…

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How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a new way to align 3D semiconductor chips by shining a laser through concentric metalenses patterned on the chips to produce a hologram. ...