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Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics

yufeizhao.com
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Jagged Flash Attention Optimization

shaped.ai

A write-up on the RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems paper,...
A write-up on the RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems paper, “Enhancing Performance and Scalability of Large-Scale Recommendation Systems with Jagged Flash Attention”, by Meta Platforms, CA, USA.The Problem: Why Traditional Methods Fall ShortTraditional recommendation systems fa...
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I want a good parallel computer

raphlinus.github.io

The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU,...
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we exploiting that power for other workloads? What prevents a GPU from ...
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MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)

sirupsen.com
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The little book about OS development

littleosbook.github.io
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Putin's Police State Increasingly a State Without Enough Police

jamestown.org

Executive Summary: The Kremlin faces a serious shortage of police officers amid rising, increasingly violent crimes...
Executive Summary: The Kremlin faces a serious shortage of police officers amid rising, increasingly violent crimes that are predicted to only worsen with the return of veterans of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many Russians are taking things into their own hands as well as forming self-defense units, many of ...
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How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta

theverge.com

Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her...
Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her memoir about working at the company as a policy director. Now, she’s fighting back. Attorneys for Wynn-Williams this week filed an emergency motion seeking to dismiss the gag order that Meta won via an arbit...
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DNA evidence says first Americans came from Asia

factsanddetails.com

Beringia in the Ice Age Natives Americans are believed to have descended from Asian people who...
Beringia in the Ice Age Natives Americans are believed to have descended from Asian people who arrived in North America via the Bering Strait. The DNA of ancient American bog people is closer to the Japanese than Americans. Glenn Hodges wrote in National Geographic: “In recent years geneticists have compared the DNA...
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Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

lwn.net

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of...
The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! If all goes according to p...
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Lock Contention

maksimkita.com

Recently, I revisited Resolving a year-long ClickHouse lock contention post and spoke about it at C++...
Recently, I revisited Resolving a year-long ClickHouse lock contention post and spoke about it at C++ Russia 2025 conference. I wanted to provide more information about the development process and some technical details that were not covered in the original post. Motivation In 2022 in Tinybird, there was a huge CPU ...
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A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

eff.org

Deeplinks Blog by Melissa Srago | March 13, 2025 Please join EFF for the next segment...
Deeplinks Blog by Melissa Srago | March 13, 2025 Please join EFF for the next segment of EFFecting Change, our livestream series covering digital privacy and free speech. Join our panel featuring EFF Civil Liberties Director David Greene, EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York, Mastodon's ...
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Show HN: Hyperbrowser MCP Server – Connect AI agents to the web through browsers

github.com
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Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning

arxiv.org
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Capability Analysis for the Kernel

lwn.net
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Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles

lrtimelapse.com

Rarely have I thought so often about abandoning a photography project as during this lunar eclipse...
Rarely have I thought so often about abandoning a photography project as during this lunar eclipse on Tenerife. Somehow, everything seemed to conspire against us this time. This is the story of an elaborately planned photo project where almost everything went wrong, but perseverance ultimately paid off. But let’s st...
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Scientists Question Microsoft's Quantum Computing 'Breakthrough'

pcmag.com
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National Lab Creates New Device to Test Safety Limits of Nuclear Fuel

energy.gov

INL conducted experiments at its TREAT Facility using a first-of-a-kind device that can detect and study...
INL conducted experiments at its TREAT Facility using a first-of-a-kind device that can detect and study what happens to a nuclear fuel pin when it starts to overheat. Office of Nuclear Energy October 26, 2021 min Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently released footage of a new experiment that simulates what happe...
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German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe

msn.com
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Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you've worked with?

ycombinator.com
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Population much more than 8.2B, rural areas underestimated

popularmechanics.com

Alexander Spatari//Getty ImagesWhile most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new...
Alexander Spatari//Getty ImagesWhile most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas. By analyzing 300 rural dam projects across 35 countries, researchers from Aalto University in Finland found discrepancies among these in...

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Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable (2023)

phys.org

materials physics physics news science science news
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EU Pushes Ahead with Big Tech Antitrust Enforcement

wsj.com
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Piccolo: Large-Scale Graph Processing with Fine-Grained In-Memory Scatter-Gather

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Graph processing requires irregular, fine-grained random access patterns...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Graph processing requires irregular, fine-grained random access patterns incompatible with contemporary off-chip memory architecture, leading to inefficient data access. This inefficiency makes graph processing an extremely memory-bound application. Because ...
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New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

eff.org

Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 17, 2025 California legislators have begun debating a bill...
Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 17, 2025 California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency. But it’s an impossible...
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