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Playable Counter-Strike Diffusion World Model (trained on 2x4090, 5M frames)

diamond-wm.github.io

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There Is No Technology Fix for Car Bloat

slate.com

The number of pedestrian deaths in the United States is skyrocketing. In 2022 traffic crashes killed...
The number of pedestrian deaths in the United States is skyrocketing. In 2022 traffic crashes killed 7,805 people on foot—that’s an 83 percent rise from 2009, and a 40-year high. The vast majority of those deaths involved a car colliding into a human. In September, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...

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Why Google Search Is Falling Apart [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Firepad – An embeddable open-source collaborative code and text editor for web

firepad.io
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Hammer Looking for a Nail, AI Drone Looking for Business Case

ycombinator.com

I’ve fulfilled my duty to Roko's basilisk. I made an Aerial Intelligence system, and I call...
I’ve fulfilled my duty to Roko's basilisk. I made an Aerial Intelligence system, and I call it Dispatcher. Jarvis on a drone, skynet, or compute token eater, its basically a drone you don't have to fly because it understands and takes action based on the world around it.Video of me “flying” the drone while I drive a...
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The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service

owlposting.com

Note: thank you Mark Budde, cofounder and CEO of Plasmidsaurus, and Maria Konovalova, a growth/marketing/talented-person at...
Note: thank you Mark Budde, cofounder and CEO of Plasmidsaurus, and Maria Konovalova, a growth/marketing/talented-person at Plasmidsaurus, for talking to me for this article! Also thank you to Eryney Marrogi, who helped answer some of my dumb questions about plasmids. Here’s some important context for this essay: it...
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WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

theverge.com

WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and...
WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This “minimal” update, which he labels a fork of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, is now called “Secure Custom Fie...
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Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?

nytimes.com

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.Companies like Amazon have required a return to the office five days a week despite findings showing benefits to employers that allow some remote days.Listen ...
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Off grid is a win for some, but a threat for poorer families and the environment

theconversation.com

How would you like to never have another electric bill? Advances in technology have made it...
How would you like to never have another electric bill? Advances in technology have made it possible for some consumers to disconnect from the power grid — a move that was once only available to the ultra-wealthy who could afford the associated costs, or survivalists willing to trade convenience for freedom. This is...

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Open source royalty and mad kings

hey.com

I'm solidly in favor of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) model of open source stewardship....
I'm solidly in favor of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) model of open source stewardship. This is how projects from Linux to Python, from Laravel to Ruby, and yes, Rails, have kept their cohesion, decisiveness, and forward motion. It's a model with decades worth of achievements to its name. But it's not a ma...
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Millions in US use well water, few test it enough to make sure it's safe

theconversation.com

About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These...
About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These homeowners are entirely responsible for ensuring that the water from their wells is safe for human consumption. Multiple studies show that, at best, half of private well owners are testing with any frequency, and v...

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Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem?

bbc.com
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In C

wikipedia.org

Musical composition For the album by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., see In...
Musical composition For the album by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., see In C (album). Riley's 1968 LP recording of In C as part of the CBS Records "Music of our Time" series. In C is a musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for an indefinite number of performers. He suggests "a group of abo...
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Plugging abandoned oil wells and stopping methane leaks [video]

youtube.com

howto & style
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California officials cite Elon Musk's politics in rejecting SpaceX launches

politico.com
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Google Ads announces 11-year data retention policy

searchengineland.com
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Terence Tao on AI as a monopoly held by one or two companies

elpais.com

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Modded-NanoGPT: NanoGPT (124M) quality in 3.25B tokens

github.com
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The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org

twitter.com
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Counter-Strike's Dust II runs purely within a neural network on an RTX 3090

tomshardware.com

Eloi Alonso and Adam Jelley's "DIAMOND" diffusion world model used to simulate Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gameplay...
Eloi Alonso and Adam Jelley's "DIAMOND" diffusion world model used to simulate Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gameplay on series staple map, Dust II. (Image credit: Valve for CS:GO; Eloi Alonso and Adam Jelley on GitHub) In a move showing yet further progress in the field of generative AI being capable of simulati...
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Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping

hackaday.com

Sending teams of tiny drones to explore areas and structures is a staple in sci-fi and...
Sending teams of tiny drones to explore areas and structures is a staple in sci-fi and research, but the weight and size of sensors and the required processing power have long been a limiting factor. In the video below, a research team from [ETH Zurich] breaks through these limits, demonstrating indoor mapping with ...
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Free Starship Booster catching arcade game

mechazilla.io
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About dn42

dn42.dev

dn42 is a big dynamic VPN, which employs Internet technologies (BGP, whois database, DNS, etc). Participants...
dn42 is a big dynamic VPN, which employs Internet technologies (BGP, whois database, DNS, etc). Participants connect to each other using network tunnels (GRE, OpenVPN, WireGuard, Tinc, IPsec) and exchange routes thanks to the Border Gateway Protocol. Network addresses are assigned in the 172.20.0.0/14 range and priv...
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A mountain? Multistorey car park? Both? Inside Shanghai's £225M summit

theguardian.com

China is no stranger to moving mountains. It has levelled hundreds of peaks in Gansu for...
China is no stranger to moving mountains. It has levelled hundreds of peaks in Gansu for urban expansion, blasted away hills in Yunnan to build railway stations, and bulldozed bluffs in Hubei for economic development zones. This insatiable lust for terraforming is simply a case of the authorities doing their duty to...
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