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From GLSL to WGSL: the future of shaders on the Web (2021)

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I want to break some laws too

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Alternatives to cosine similarity

tomhazledine.com

Last month we looked at how cosine similarity works and how we can use it to...
Last month we looked at how cosine similarity works and how we can use it to calculate the "similarity" of two vectors. But why choose cosine similarity over any other distance function? Why not use Euclidean distance, or Manhattan, or Chebyshev?In this article we'll dig in to some alternative methods for comparing ...
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What is "founder mode"?

tomblomfield.com

We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave...
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product and the company suffered as a result....
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A Language of Beautiful Impurity

edwest.co.uk

The Gouth of Hastings was fought at Sandlake Hill in mid-October, 1066. There, the English, under...
The Gouth of Hastings was fought at Sandlake Hill in mid-October, 1066. There, the English, under King Harold, won a breme and athel seyer over the Normans, led by Earl William ‘the Unrightluster’, a man who was willing to spill a swith great muchness of blood to fulfil his yearning for the English highsettle, wealt...
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]

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Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards

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Look, here's the thing, I don't like mysteries that involve technology. I think I hate them...
Look, here's the thing, I don't like mysteries that involve technology. I think I hate them because I know that some other human created the thing I'm staring at and, dammit, I should be able to understand it. And, then one day I was browsing in one of those places where people leave books for others to take. I flip...
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My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine

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Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback

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As we’re entering the last quarter of the year, the time has come when many tech...
As we’re entering the last quarter of the year, the time has come when many tech companies start their yearly feedback cycles, providing formal feedback on the performance of their employees. While time-consuming, if done well, this is a great tool for Engineering Managers to make a difference in the professional li...

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NBA Players as Pokemon

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TikTok hit by over a dozen state lawsuits for allegedly harming teens

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Attorneys general from 14 states and districts sued TikTok for allegedly harming kids’ mental health and...
Attorneys general from 14 states and districts sued TikTok for allegedly harming kids’ mental health and misleading the public about how safe its platform is.The bipartisan group of AGs, led by New York’s Letitia James and California’s Rob Bonta, each filed lawsuits alleging violations of their own state’s law. “Our...
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Geico tells El Reg, no, it's not canceling all Cybertruck insurance

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Geico confirmed to The Register that, following whispering on social media, the US insurance firm is...
Geico confirmed to The Register that, following whispering on social media, the US insurance firm is most definitely not canceling all coverage on Tesla Cybertrucks. A rumor going around that Cybertrucks would lose Geico coverage was rooted in a post on X this weekend by a netizen who claimed they had eight cars, a ...
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How to get started in Graphics Programming in 2024?

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TikTok sued by 13 states and DC, accused of harming younger users

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Improving Parquet Dedupe on Hugging Face Hub

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Published October 5, 2024 Update on GitHub The Xet team at Hugging Face is working on...
Published October 5, 2024 Update on GitHub The Xet team at Hugging Face is working on improving the efficiency of the Hub's storage architecture to make it easier and quicker for users to store and update data and models. As Hugging Face hosts nearly 11PB of datasets with Parquet files alone accounting for over 2.2P...
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Dozen states sue TikTok over app's effect on kids' mental health

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A view shows the office of TikTok after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a...
A view shows the office of TikTok after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app or face a ban, in Culver City, California, March 13, 2024. Mike Blake | ReutersA bipartisan group o...

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We Compared ScyllaDB and Memcached and We Lost

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An in-depth look at database and cache internals, and the tradeoffs in each. ScyllaDB would like...
An in-depth look at database and cache internals, and the tradeoffs in each. ScyllaDB would like to publicly acknowledge dormando (Memcached maintainer) and Danny Kopping for their contributions to this project, as well as thank them for their support and patience. Engineers behind ScyllaDB – the database for predic...
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Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal'

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The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, in an image provided by the publisher Pinolia.Joerg SteinmetzIs there anything...
The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, in an image provided by the publisher Pinolia.Joerg SteinmetzIs there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science...

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Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation?

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On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and...
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers. (West Coast ports, which are worked by a different union, the Internat...
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Vegas underground transit system is a magnet to trespassers and confused drivers

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It’s not just Teslas zooming through Elon Musk’s tunnels under the Las Vegas Convention Center, chauffeuring...
It’s not just Teslas zooming through Elon Musk’s tunnels under the Las Vegas Convention Center, chauffeuring passengers as part of a public transit experiment that started in 2021. A skateboarder got into a tunnel through one of the established passenger pickup stations, forcing staff to briefly tell drivers to stan...
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The Nazi of Oak Park

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Adapted from Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter With Evil by Michael Soffer, with permission from...
Adapted from Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter With Evil by Michael Soffer, with permission from the University of Chicago Press. © 2024 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Jack Swanson walked into his second-floor office at Oak Park and River Forest High School. It was December 4, 1982, and th...

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Why does ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] return the string "10"?

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The following is adapted from a blog post answering this question that I posted while this...
The following is adapted from a blog post answering this question that I posted while this question was still closed. Links are to (an HTML copy of) the ECMAScript 3 spec, still the baseline for JavaScript in today's commonly used web browsers. First, a comment: this kind of expression is never going to show up in a...

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Let's prepare for life without Twitter

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GLP-1 pills are coming, and they could revolutionize weight-loss treatment

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Jared Holz thought about taking one of the new GLP-1 drugs for weight loss for months...
Jared Holz thought about taking one of the new GLP-1 drugs for weight loss for months before he actually filled the prescription. And even when he got the drug, he waited a month before using it. Part of his hesitation: He dislikes needles, and all the drugs in this class that have been approved for weight loss come...
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