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“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
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I made an operating system UI within Unity. Thoughts?
Posted in r/Unity3D by u/michsky • 3,161 points and 369 comments
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A 17B-parameter language model by Microsoft
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Microsoft Research
Turing-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft - Microsoft Research
This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of…
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Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again
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Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again
White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs
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Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
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Microsoft Research
ZeRO & DeepSpeed: New system optimizations enable training models with over 100 billion parameters - Microsoft Research
The latest trend in AI is that larger natural language models provide better accuracy; however, larger models are difficult to train because of cost, time, and ease of code integration. Microsoft is releasing an open-source library called DeepSpeed, which…
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Long Term Support
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ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
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Namecheap Blog
ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money - Namecheap Blog
ICANN has announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. to operate the top-level domain .COM, including .COM price increases.
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Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s
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Fax on the beach: The story of the audacious, visionary, totally calamitous iPad of the '90s
AT&T's EO Personal Communicator was going to change everything. Too bad nobody cared.
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Where’s _why? (2012)
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Slate Magazine
Where’s _why? What Happened When One of the World’s Most Beloved Programmers Vanished.
In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed ...
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Performant Front-End Architecture
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Performant Front-end Architecture | DebugBear
Make your client-side apps load fast and provide a good user experience.
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Why I'm Leaving San Francisco (meta study of 100 posts)
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Why I'm Leaving San Francisco (meta study)
We've all read blog posts by techies leaving the valley -- but why are they doing it? This meta study examines 100+ stories to find out.
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Thinking About Recursion
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Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba
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Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba
“It’s an open secret that every company is on fire,” says Kintaba co-founder John Egan. “At any given moment something is going horribly wrong in a way that it has never gone wrong before.” Code failure downtimes, server outages and hack attacks plague engineering…
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Visual 6502 in JavaScript
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Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force
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Pentagon requests $15.4B for Space Force
The Pentagon is proposing a $15.4 billion fiscal 2021 budget for the Space Force, the newly minted sixth branch of the military.
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Pgcat – Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication
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GitHub - kingluo/pgcat: Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication
Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication. Contribute to kingluo/pgcat development by creating an account on GitHub.
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In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles
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In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles...
Ed Pratt unicycled 21,000 miles over three years. These were his critical items.
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A document signed by a five year old, agreeing to be deported
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www.documentcloud.org
Stillman Hellen 2
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Web Edit (The New Yorker).
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Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice
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Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice
When you have lots of information in an Org file, it helps to narrow
it down to just the topic that interests you right now. There's many
ways to do that depending on what exactly you want to do. Creating
an Org mode sparse tree is one of those options!
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Brandless has shut down
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Bloomberg.com
SoftBank-Backed Brandless Shutters Less Than 2 Years After Investment
Brandless Inc., a direct-to-consumer personal care and packaged goods company, is closing down. Brandless will stop taking orders and cut about 70 employees, less than two years after SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund said it would invest $240 million in…
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I Was Wrong about Nix
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Costco Capitalism
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