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Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships

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The Northeast is becoming fire country

newyorker.com

Throughout the night of November 8th, my sleep was pierced by the smell of a burning...
Throughout the night of November 8th, my sleep was pierced by the smell of a burning forest. It is a familiar scent to me, something I associate with working as a wildland firefighter in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. In my dream state, I did not wonder why the smell of a wildfire was wafting through the windo...

climate change drought firefighters new york wildfires
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AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

blog.google

Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize drug discovery, material design and fundamental physics — that...
Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize drug discovery, material design and fundamental physics — that is, if we can get them to work reliably.Certain problems, which would take a conventional computer billions of years to solve, would take a quantum computer just hours. However, these new processors a...

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Amazon introduces Echo Show 21, its largest smart display ever

aboutamazon.com

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Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

acm.org

Observing the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) hype that has swept over the world in the...
Observing the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) hype that has swept over the world in the past few years, science fiction writer Ted Chiang staked out a contrarian position. “Artificial intelligence,” he insisted, was just a “poor choice of words … back in the ’50s” that had caused “a lot of confusion.” Under ...
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Bluesky Tech Starter Pack

github.com
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Grant Sanderson: Visualizing transformers and attention [video]

youtube.com

education
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AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3

tomshardware.com

Microsoft announced its latest high performance computing (HPC) Azure virtual machines powered by a custom AMD...
Microsoft announced its latest high performance computing (HPC) Azure virtual machines powered by a custom AMD CPU that may have once been called MI300C.The HBv series of Azure VMs are focused on delivering high amounts of memory bandwidth, an important specification for HPC; Microsoft calls it the “biggest HPC bott...
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

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Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks...
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.And for the 50 percent of American families with income below $100,000, parents can expect to pay nothing...

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Show HN: A People Search Engine with Face Recognition

introthem.com
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Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client

cardo-podcast.github.io
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AWS Lambda PR/FAQ After 10 Years

allthingsdistributed.com
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Converge (YC S23) is hiring senior product engineers (NYC, in-person)

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot

msgtn.xyz

This post presents updates to Blossom, the robot that I developed in grad school. The current...
This post presents updates to Blossom, the robot that I developed in grad school. The current version of Blossom, with a new chevron cover1 and accessories: glasses for seeing; hearing aid for listening; name tag for communicating. Stereographic GIF courtesy of Cyril and the PIMSLO camera. Blossom is an open-source ...
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SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

philipzucker.com

Database queries are a pretty surprisingly powerful tool that can solve seemingly intractable problems. It is...
Database queries are a pretty surprisingly powerful tool that can solve seemingly intractable problems. It is a fun coding challenge to do things in SQL. I’ve seen people solve sudokus or do advent of code, or you can build a datalog on SQL with a little metaprogramming (maybe even fully internally). It is also poss...
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La Basilica Di San Pietro

microsoft.com

Photogrammetry, AI, and digital preservation combine to create a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica with...
Photogrammetry, AI, and digital preservation combine to create a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica with thousands of images, allowing visitors to explore it in detail from anywhere in the world. Located in Vatican City, St. Peter’s Basilica is over 400 years old, and is one of the most well-known churches in the ...
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3 years ago, VCs in Bay Area tech were thriving. Now, they're 'bleeding cash.'

sfgate.com
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Singularity Missed

piekniewski.info
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Disassembling Crossroads, Part 1

substack.com

The title illustration for the game Crossroads, published by Compute!'s Gazette, December 1987.One of my all-time...
The title illustration for the game Crossroads, published by Compute!'s Gazette, December 1987.One of my all-time favorite games for the Commodore 64—and I know I’m not alone in this—is Crossroads, the single-screen maze shoot’em’up by Steve Harter, published in Compute!’s Gazette magazine as a type-in program in De...
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My Resignation from Emacs Development

gnu.org
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Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner's Research Page

mpg.de

Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the...
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC. Microservices for beg...

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U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion

toronto.edu

Close your eyes and picture the iconic “bullet time” scene from The Matrix — where hacker...
Close your eyes and picture the iconic “bullet time” scene from The Matrix — where hacker Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, dodges bullets in slow motion. Now imagine being able to witness the same effect, but instead of speeding bullets, you’re watching something that moves one million times faster: light itself. This i...
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Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they'll need to work at 62 MPH

wired.com
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Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool

sonnet.io
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