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OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
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From the MachineLearning community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the MachineLearning community
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Schools Beat Earlier Plagues with Outdoor Classes. We Should, Too
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NY Times
Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes. We Should, Too. (Published 2020)
A century ago, children in New York City attended classes during a pandemic. It seemed to work.
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Coronavirus: Protein treatment trial 'a breakthrough'
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Coronavirus: Protein treatment trial 'a breakthrough'
Synairgen says preliminary results suggest its nebuliser treatment can lower the risk of disease.
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Minecraft@Home
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Generate UUIDs, that are Shakespearean grammatically correct sentences
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GitHub
GitHub - Debdut/uuid-readable: Generate Easy to Remember, Readable UUIDs, that are Shakespearean and Grammatically Correct Sentences…
Generate Easy to Remember, Readable UUIDs, that are Shakespearean and Grammatically Correct Sentences
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- Debdut/uuid-readable
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How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down
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How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down
The long read: Nestlé’s sleek, chic capsule system changed the way we drink coffee. But in an age when everyone’s a coffee snob and waste is wickedness, can it survive?
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How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better (2008)
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Website Guides, Tips & Knowledge
How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better - Website Guides, Tips & Knowledge
A rant by Zed Shaw, the man who wrote the original version of the Ruby application server Mongrel got me thinking about the experiences DreamHost has had hosting Ruby on Rails driven websites over the past couple of years. The rant itself was somewhat lengthy…
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Why GPT-3 Matters
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Leo Gao
Why GPT-3 Matters
The sheer scale of the new GPT-3 model is hard to overstate; it’s an entire order of magnitude larger than Microsoft’s already-massive 17B parameter Turing-NLG.[1] Loading the entire model’s weights
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Demo of OpenAI's GPT-3 generating tweets given a word
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Ask HN: CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche?
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Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
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scastiel.dev
3D Book Image CSS Generator · Sebastien Castiel
Generate an animated 3D image from a book cover and export to HTML/CSS to embed on your website.
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Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
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Terence Eden’s Blog
Any claim without a URl should be treated as suspicious
I’ve recently seen lots of people tweeting this supposed newspaper clipping. An olde-timey warning about wearing flu masks. But is it too good to be true? The first thing to do with any image…
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Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook
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popular.info
Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook
A fact-check of a viral climate misinformation article was quietly removed from Facebook earlier this month, a joint investigation by Popular Information and HEATED reveals.
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Z80 Explorer – a Zilog Z80 netlist-level simulator
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Baltazar Studios
Z80 Explorer - Baltazar Studios
Z80 Explorer is a Z80 netlist-level simulator capable of running Z80 machine code and also an educational tool with features that help reverse engineer and understand this chip better.
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TileDB Closes $15M Series A for Universal Data Engine
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TileDB
TileDB Closes $15M Series A for Industry’s First Universal Data Engine
Funding announcement, press release recap
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Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”
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easyDNS
Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare” - easyDNS
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody…
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Oxford coronavirus vaccine can train immune system
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BBC News
Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
Study shows the vaccine is safe, but it is still too soon to know if it can stop people from being infected.
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Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps
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Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during lockdown
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NY Times
During Coronavirus Lockdowns, Some Doctors Wondered: Where Are the Preemies? (Published 2020)
Hospitals in several countries saw dips in premature births, which could be a starting point for future research.
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The German Problem with Tor
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Worldofmatthew
The German Problem with Tor | WorldofMatthew
EAs of the 5th July 2020, there are 1357 Tor bridges available for users in countries who censor the Tor network to use. Having just over 1,000 IP addresses is not a lot for such a big privacy network as Tor is, especially considering that the number of Tor…
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Mars in 4K [video]
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YouTube
New: Mars In 4K
A world first. New footage from Mars rendered in stunning 4K resolution. We also talk about the cameras on board the Martian rovers and how we made the video.
The cameras on board the rovers were the height of technology when the respective missions launched.…
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