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Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for delivery drivers

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I Ditched Buddhism

slate.com

For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain...
For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain its surging popularity here in America. Over the last 15 years, the number of Buddhist centers in the United States has more than doubled, to well over 1,000. As many as 4 million Americans...
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An alternative construction of Shannon entropy

rkp.science

TL;DR: Shannon’s entropy formula is usually justified by showing it satisfies key mathematical criteria, or by...
TL;DR: Shannon’s entropy formula is usually justified by showing it satisfies key mathematical criteria, or by computing how much space is needed to encode a variable. But one can also construct Shannon’s formula starting purely from the simpler notion of entropy as a (logarithm of a) count—of how many different way...
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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

microsoft.com

Twitter users @tthirtle asked why Windows 95 setup goes through three operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1,...
Twitter users @tthirtle asked why Windows 95 setup goes through three operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and then Windows 95. Why not go from MS-DOS straight to Windows 95? Here’s another good question. Why does Windows 95 setup use 3 different UI’s. DOS,Win3.x,and Win9x? — Thomas (@tthirtle) July 7, 2024 Windo...
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Creating a QR Code step by step

nayuki.io
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Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal

utoronto.ca
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Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia with Long-Range U.S. Missiles

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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.With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces...
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Fuzzing the PHP Interpreter via Dataflow Fusion

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Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development,...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development, powers a vast range of websites, from personal blogs to major platforms. While existing research primarily focuses on PHP application-level security issues like code injection, memory errors within the P...
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Hobby Project: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework

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Managing High Performers

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Pioneer Species

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First species to colonize or inhabit damaged ecosystems Pioneer species of plant growing in cracks on...
First species to colonize or inhabit damaged ecosystems Pioneer species of plant growing in cracks on a solidified recently erupted lava flow in Hawaii Pioneer plants growing on solidified lava on Pico, Azores, avoiding local laurisilva competition Pioneer species are resilient species that are the first to colonize...
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Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds

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In a recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition, researchers at Northwestern University showed that a...
In a recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition, researchers at Northwestern University showed that a smartphone app using sensory cues can significantly increase the frequency of lucid dreams—dreams in which a person is aware they are dreaming while still asleep. This study marks the first attempt to app...
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Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Here's why they should

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Systems Approach I have been playing around with passkeys, or as they are formally known, discoverable...
Systems Approach I have been playing around with passkeys, or as they are formally known, discoverable credentials. Think of passkeys as a replacement of passwords. They are defined in the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). This work evolved from several prior efforts...
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The World Grid and New Geographies of Cooperation

centerforneweconomics.org

A projection of the Global Electrical Grid as originally conceived by Buckminster Fuller. “People have lived...
A projection of the Global Electrical Grid as originally conceived by Buckminster Fuller. “People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges.” Richard Rhodes | Energy: A Human History The world’s transition away from fossi...
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AlphaProof's Greatest Hits: the coolest bits from the IMO 2024 solutions

rishimehta.xyz

Here I’ll try to explain the coolest ideas in each of AlphaProof’s IMO 2024 solutions. AlphaProof...
Here I’ll try to explain the coolest ideas in each of AlphaProof’s IMO 2024 solutions. AlphaProof produces proofs in Lean, and each Lean proof is composed of a series of tactics. So I’ll pick out the tactics that correspond to these ideas in the proofs for problems 1, 2 and 6 (the three problems that AlphaProof solv...
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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

lancaster.ac.uk
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Fake AI video generators infect Windows, macOS with infostealers

bleepingcomputer.com

Fake AI image and video generators infect Windows and macOS with the Lumma Stealer and AMOS...
Fake AI image and video generators infect Windows and macOS with the Lumma Stealer and AMOS information-stealing malware, used to steal credentials and cryptocurrency wallets from infected devices. Lumma Stealer is a Windows malware and AMOS is for macOS, but both steal cryptocurrency wallets and cookies, credential...

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Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills

japantimes.co.jp
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A Taxonomy of AgentOps

arxiv.org
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Battery-Free Bioelectronic Implants

chemistryworld.com

Wireless power transfer may seem like a recent innovation to keep energy-hungry smartphones topped up, but...
Wireless power transfer may seem like a recent innovation to keep energy-hungry smartphones topped up, but for biomedical electronics, wireless power transfer has a deep history. When Swedish doctors performed the first fully implantable cardiac pacemaker surgery in 1958 , the device they had invented was powered by...
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Transistor for fuzzy logic hardware: promise for better edge computing

techxplore.com
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Good Software Development Habits

zarar.dev

This post is not advice, it's what's working for me.It's easy to pick up bad habits...
This post is not advice, it's what's working for me.It's easy to pick up bad habits and hard to create good ones. Writing down what's working for me helps me maintain any good habits I've worked hard to develop. Here's an unordered list of 10 things that have helped me increase speed and maintain a respectable level...
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A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon

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Compiler Optimization in a Language You Can Understand

sbaziotis.com

We'll start simple, with the following function: int times2(int n) { return n*2; } Generally speaking,...
We'll start simple, with the following function: int times2(int n) { return n*2; } Generally speaking, compilers can optimize arithmetic, logical, and other kinds of scalar operations pretty effectively.1 Even in this simple example, where it might seem the compiler can't do much, it generated following with -O1 (go...

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