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History of APL in the USSR (1991)

acm.org

[1] S. P. Prokhorov, "The Implementation of APL/BESM-6 System"; Programming, Moscow, 6, 1977.[2] E. T. Semenova,...
[1] S. P. Prokhorov, "The Implementation of APL/BESM-6 System"; Programming, Moscow, 6, 1977.[2] E. T. Semenova, A. L. Semenov, "APL/MEI"; Programming Languages, Moscow, Vol. 2, 1975.[3] A. I. Miroshnikov, A. I. Troyan, "APL 2.0"; Technical report of LIIAN, Leningrad, 1981.[4] I. I. Malashinin, A. I. Kononov "Implem...
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Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio

audiocube.app
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GitHub Is Down

githubstatus.com

Resolved - On January 23, 2025, between 9:49 and 17:00 UTC, the available capacity of large...
Resolved - On January 23, 2025, between 9:49 and 17:00 UTC, the available capacity of large hosted runners was degraded. On average, 26% of jobs requiring large runners had a >5min delay getting a runner assigned. This was caused by the rollback of a configuration change and a latent bug in event processing, which w...
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Github Incident with Pull Requests and Issues

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DC Mid Air Collision Reconstruction Using Public Data [video]

youtube.com

gaming
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The Slow Death of OCSP

feistyduck.com

Feisty Duck’s Cryptography & Security Newsletter is a periodic dispatch bringing you commentary and news surrounding...
Feisty Duck’s Cryptography & Security Newsletter is a periodic dispatch bringing you commentary and news surrounding cryptography, security, privacy, SSL/TLS, and PKI. It's designed to keep you informed about the latest developments in this space. Enjoyed every month by more than 50,000 subscribers. Written by Ivan ...
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Permission to Practise Medicine

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Mistral Small 3

mistral.ai

Today we’re introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license.Mistral...
Today we’re introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license.Mistral Small 3 is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B, and is an excellent open replacement for opaque proprietary models like GPT4o-mini. Mistral Small 3 is on par wit...
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Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence

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28 january 2025 antiqua et nova human intelligence
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Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace

chrbutler.com

For those of us born around 1980, William Gibson’s Neuromancer might be the most prophetic novel...
For those of us born around 1980, William Gibson’s Neuromancer might be the most prophetic novel we never read as teenagers. Published in 1984, it predicted the digital world we would inherit: a reality where human consciousness extends into cyberspace, where corporations control the digital commons, and where being...
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Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead

thechinaacademy.org

Try Premium Member for Free with a 7-Day TrialSilicon Valley is reeling. A seismic shift in...
Try Premium Member for Free with a 7-Day TrialSilicon Valley is reeling. A seismic shift in AI dominance is underway, and all eyes are on China. In January 2025, DeepSeek-R1—an open-source inference model from Chinese AI firm DeepSeek—sent shockwaves through the tech world by matching OpenAI’s top-tier performance a...
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Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

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The feast laid out is lavish, but the table is so overladen, there is no space...
The feast laid out is lavish, but the table is so overladen, there is no space to dine. This is the somewhat absurd scenario staged by the tablescapes of Dutch banquet still life paintings. Also known as pronkstilleven, or “sumptuous still lifes”, these scenes are a distinct subgenre of still life painting that gain...
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Codes Health (YC S24) Is Hiring

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Rust's worst feature (available in Rust nightly)

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LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting

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My home built pipe organ

sentex.ca

how to build a pipe organ
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Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024

cleanenergywire.org

U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump...
U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. Registrations of new Teslas dropped 41 percent to less than 38,000 vehicles, data from the Federal Motor Transport Authorit...
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Teemoji: Like Tee but with Emojis

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A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep

corememory.com

AI madness is upon many of us, and it can take different forms. In August 2024,...
AI madness is upon many of us, and it can take different forms. In August 2024, for example, I stumbled upon a post from a 20-year-old who had built a nuclear fusor in his home with a bunch of mail-ordered parts. More to the point, he’d done this while under the tutelage of Anthropic’s Claude AI service.What is a nu...
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Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom

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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, an ages-old fairy tale interpreted as a poem by Goethe, made famous today...
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, an ages-old fairy tale interpreted as a poem by Goethe, made famous today by Disney’s Fantasia, illustrated the dangers of power over wisdom, and the risk of human creations getting out of control. Goethe: “That old sorcerer has vanished. And for once has gone away! Spirits called by him, ...
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I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

poptheconfetti.website
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The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed

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climate
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Snakeskin: It's Fashionable, and It Scares Predators Away from Bird Nests

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When...
SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin shed by snakes.Great-crested flyca...

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Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation

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europe genetics humidity nose phenotypes
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