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Zapata AI Ceases Operations

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Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut

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The World Conker Championships is investigating cheating allegations after the men’s winner was found to have...
The World Conker Championships is investigating cheating allegations after the men’s winner was found to have a steel chestnut in his pocket.David Jakins won the annual title in Southwick, Northamptonshire, on Sunday for the first time after competing since 1977.But the 82-year-old was found to have a metal replica ...
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More NPM Packages on Cloudflare Workers

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Today, we are excited to announce a preview of improved Node.js compatibility for Workers and Pages....
Today, we are excited to announce a preview of improved Node.js compatibility for Workers and Pages. Broader compatibility lets you use more NPM packages and take advantage of the JavaScript ecosystem when writing your Workers.Our newest version of Node.js compatibility combines the best features of our previous eff...

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How the McLaren F1 got it's sound

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Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97

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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.Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about th...
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Everything You Didn't Know About Being a Carrier Strike Group Commander [video]

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25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD

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Summary: A new survey reveals that 25% of adults in the U.S. suspect they may have...
Summary: A new survey reveals that 25% of adults in the U.S. suspect they may have undiagnosed ADHD, though only 13% have consulted a doctor. Social media has driven greater awareness, especially among younger adults, but experts warn of the risks associated with self-diagnosis. Adult ADHD, often undiagnosed in yout...
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Florida's disaster-proof community withstood yet another hurricane

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The web I want vs. the one we have

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I remember when I first arrived in Silicon Valley with a couple of products and after...
I remember when I first arrived in Silicon Valley with a couple of products and after meeting Steve Jobs at Apple, and signing with the company that bought Visicalc, I felt like I had arrived, and quickly found my tribe. These people understand what I do, after trying to get folks at my university, in Madison, to un...
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'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem

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Austin 3.7 – Python frame stack sampler for CPython

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Automating the most annoying aspects of blogging

gingerbeardman.com

Back in 2021 I had a look around and decided to base this incarnation of my...
Back in 2021 I had a look around and decided to base this incarnation of my blog on an open-source Jekyll theme called “Type”, though I’ve changed and added so much it’s quite some distance from the original as it stands today. As I added blog posts the performance became much worse. Initially I blamed Jekyll for th...
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LLMs can't perform "genuine logical reasoning," Apple researchers suggest

arstechnica.com

This kind of variance—both within different GSM-Symbolic runs and compared to GSM8K results—is more than a...
This kind of variance—both within different GSM-Symbolic runs and compared to GSM8K results—is more than a little surprising since, as the researchers point out, "the overall reasoning steps needed to solve a question remain the same." The fact that such small changes lead to such variable results suggests to the re...
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Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery

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Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows [Using Caustics] (2021)

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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011)

worrydream.com

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this...
So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactio...
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Brightness of the Qianfan Satellites

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Cargo Airships Are Happening

elidourado.com

Last year, I published an article on airships. The article was the fruit of a few...
Last year, I published an article on airships. The article was the fruit of a few years’ exploration of the industry. I spoke to multiple airship manufacturers under NDA. I traded ideas with other cargo airship enthusiasts. And ultimately, along with my friends Ian McKay and Matt Sattler, I hired an engineer to deve...
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Zamba2-7B

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Zamba2-7B achieves SOTA evaluation benchmark performance and superior inference efficiency compared to currently leading 7B models...
Zamba2-7B achieves SOTA evaluation benchmark performance and superior inference efficiency compared to currently leading 7B models such as Mistral-7B, Gemma-7B, and Llama3-8BZamba2-7B is extremely inference-efficient, achieving 25% faster time to first token, a 20% improvement in tokens per second, and a significant...
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Music Thing Modular Workshop System

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Music Thing Modular Workshop System is a complete modular synth. It is slightly smaller than a...
Music Thing Modular Workshop System is a complete modular synth. It is slightly smaller than a hardback book. It comes in a foam-lined hard case. It will be available exclusively as a DIY kit from Thonk, with the first small batch arriving before the end of 2024, costing around £400 (including sales taxes). To find ...
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Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

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Their new system allowed personal computer owners with modems to dial up a dedicated machine and...
Their new system allowed personal computer owners with modems to dial up a dedicated machine and leave messages that others would see later. The BBS concept represented a digital version of a push-pin bulletin board that might flank a grocery store entrance, town hall, or college dorm hallway. Christensen and Suess ...
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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

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How to Make a Legit Sound Camera [video]

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science & technology
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RemotePulse – Boost your remote work productivity with effortless tracking

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