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How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail

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Austen and Darwin converged on the question of beauty

aeon.co
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Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg

semiengineering.com

Shift left is evolving from a buzzword into a much broader shift in design methodology and...
Shift left is evolving from a buzzword into a much broader shift in design methodology and EDA tooling, and while it’s still early innings there is widespread agreement that it will be transformative. The semiconductor industry has gone through many changes over the past few decades. Some are obvious, but others hap...
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This Pull Request was generated automatically using cover-agent

github.com
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Fair coins tend to land on the side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips

researchgate.net
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Show HN: Rust library for numerical integration of real-valued functions

github.com
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Online Age Verification as Trojan Horse for the Mass Rollout of Digital IDs?

nakedcapitalism.com

Online age verification threatens to trap everyone, not just minors, in its web, as the Australian...
Online age verification threatens to trap everyone, not just minors, in its web, as the Australian government recently admitted. As readers may recall (while perhaps also recoiling), Spain is in the process of developing a licence to w*nk online. In July, the Pedro Sánchez government unveiled plans to launch a digit...
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AAA Linux Gaming on ARM64 Mac Hardware, Now a Reality

boilingsteam.com
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Intel celebrates the arrival of MRDIMMs – double memory bandwidth of DRAM

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: TechPowerUp) When Intel introduced its Xeon 6 platform earlier this year, the company said...
(Image credit: TechPowerUp) When Intel introduced its Xeon 6 platform earlier this year, the company said that the new CPUs will support multiplexed rank dual inline memory modules (MRDIMMs) with the promise of bringing together high data transfer rates, low latency, high capacity, and predictable power consumption....
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Think about switching to Linux (Andrea Borman) [video]

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Java 24 to Reduce Object Header Size and Save Memory

infoq.com

JEP 450 (Compact Object Headers) has been targeted for delivery in JDK 24, and has already...
JEP 450 (Compact Object Headers) has been targeted for delivery in JDK 24, and has already been merged to main. This currently experimental feature optimizes heap utilization by shrinking the size of the mandatory object header in HotSpot. This should reduce overall heap size, improve density of deployments, and inc...

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A Woman Who Defined the Great Depression

newrepublic.com

Sanora Babb spent her life dealing with all the multifarious daily perils that prevent writers from...
Sanora Babb spent her life dealing with all the multifarious daily perils that prevent writers from writing. She was raised in poverty by a mother who was only 16 when she gave birth to her and an abusive father who spent his days playing semi-pro baseball and gambling. From the age she could walk, she was running e...

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Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table

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NYC Announces 'Drone as First Responder' Program to Reduce Response Times

nyc.gov

November 13, 2024 Video available at: https://youtu.be/TrBjDTcYxjc Department’s First 24/7 Formalized Drone Unit Will Immediately Deploy...
November 13, 2024 Video available at: https://youtu.be/TrBjDTcYxjc Department’s First 24/7 Formalized Drone Unit Will Immediately Deploy Aerial Autonomous Vehicles to Incident Locations and Provide Critical Information to On-the-Ground Response Teams NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police...
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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

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OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been hosting raster tiles of its dataset for much of its 20-year history....
OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been hosting raster tiles of its dataset for much of its 20-year history. These maps have had their rules and styles defined ahead of their rendering and present the end user with static PNGs. Below is a screenshot of the area around the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. This week, OSM began hosting vec...
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Paged Out #5 – hacker zine release [pdf]

pagedout.institute
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We Can't Give Up Paper Checks, and That's a Gold Mine for Scammers

wsj.com
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Single Line Mazes

kottke.org
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Expand.ai (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Turn the Web into an API

ycombinator.com

Imagine if the internet were a database. What would you build?---We’re building out the early engineering...
Imagine if the internet were a database. What would you build?---We’re building out the early engineering team of expand.ai, where we’re (a) solving a problem the world urgently needs to be solved, that is (b) one of the most challenging problems in technology, (c) alongside a team of exceptional engineers (d) offer...
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Arm PC Base System Architecture 1.0

arm.com
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Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man

theguardian.com

The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking...
The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking the moment when the first cohort of women, including Debbie McGee and Fay Presto, were admitted to its previously male-only ranks of magicians.But the meeting was also memorable for another, lesser known, reason. The council v...

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Take the 'Death Stairs' If You Dare

nytimes.com
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How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling Challenges and Opportunities

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In the span of four decades, quantum computation...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In the span of four decades, quantum computation has evolved from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realizable technology. Today, small-scale demonstrations have become possible for quantum algorithmic primitives on hundreds of physical qubits and p...
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Hong Kong Jails Benny Tai for 10 Years in Longest Security Law Sentence

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