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Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA

wordsandbuttons.online

programming quizzes
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JSON Formatter (Free, no ads, no signups)

hqjson.com

format json json beautifier json formatter json validator online json tool
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Scaling Document Data Extraction with LLMs and Vector Databases

timescale.com

Extracting structured data from unstructured documents is a powerful use case for large language models (LLMs)....
Extracting structured data from unstructured documents is a powerful use case for large language models (LLMs). This sort of data extraction from complex documents has always remained a challenge. Done either completely manually or using current intelligent document processing (IDP) platforms that utilize previous-g...

ai
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How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers

zdnet.com

Dani/Getty ImagesIt's no secret that X (formerly Twitter) has been in flux since Elon Musk took...
Dani/Getty ImagesIt's no secret that X (formerly Twitter) has been in flux since Elon Musk took over the company. The platform has undergone a series of controversial changes, alienating users with each new decision. The most recent privacy shift, which allows blocked users to view your posts (though they can't enga...
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100-MW solar farm just broke ground in Wisconsin

electrek.co

Image: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River...
Image: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin solar farm, which will use US-made First Solar Series 6 Plus bifacial modules, will be constructed by The Boldt Company, creating 150 construction and service jo...
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SNES and Playstation Cubic Adpcm Interpolation

jsgroth.dev
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Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech

mit.edu

history science & tech surveillance
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Building LawStar – a year long indie hacking journey

substack.com

Hi, I’m James (in some circles better known as Mackey). In my career, I am a...
Hi, I’m James (in some circles better known as Mackey). In my career, I am a software engineer that likes working in startups. I regularly write about the things that I am working on, but this is my first time posting publicly.This article is about my journey starting my own company, selling it a year later, and wha...
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Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Speculations on arenas and custom strings in C++

nullprogram.com
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Scooter: interactive find and replace in the terminal

github.com
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FBDetect: Catching Tiny Performance Regressions at Hyperscale [pdf]

tangchq74.github.io
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Norwegian Fishermen Hunting for Halibut Caught a US Nuclear Sub

vice.com

Some Norwegian fishermen off the coast of Tromsø were out and about on their vessel named...
Some Norwegian fishermen off the coast of Tromsø were out and about on their vessel named Øygutt looking for halibut. Something significantly larger than fish, however, found its way into their trawl net. The fishermen caught the USS Virginia, a 115-meter-long nuclear-powered attack submarine outfitted with cruise m...
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Please, Stop the Coding Challenges

bearblog.dev
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Comma.ai Autonomy

comma.ai
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Bluesky Directory of Starter Packs

blueskydirectory.com
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1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day

bsky.app
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Virality in cartography: What makes a map go viral?

geoawesome.com
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A mental model for Linux file, hard and soft links

bhoot.dev
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The Battle Line at Louvain

privatdozent.co

Ruins of the Library at Louvain (Photo: Library of Congress)I’ve written before about the book burning...
Ruins of the Library at Louvain (Photo: Library of Congress)I’ve written before about the book burning ceremonies (“bücherverbrennung”) that the Nazi Party arranged in 1933 following their seizure of power and passing of the Berufsbeamtengesetz (“Law for the Restoration of the Professsional Civil Service”) dismissin...
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Admiral Cloudberg: the TWA 800 investigation

medium.com

Note: this accident was previously featured in episode 26 of the plane crash series on March...
Note: this accident was previously featured in episode 26 of the plane crash series on March 3rd, 2018, prior to the series’ arrival on Medium. This article is written without reference to and supersedes the original.Fires burn on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean following the crash of TWA flight 800. (Newsday)On t...

aviation history media new york
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Congress hears testimony on aliens the government hides

theregister.com

Video The US government has known about aliens since the 1940s, but kept the truth from...
Video The US government has known about aliens since the 1940s, but kept the truth from us all, according to testimony offered at a Wednesday session of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The two-hour hearing – titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth" – included claims that the...
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Packages, Not Programs

bitfieldconsulting.com

All design decisions start and end with the package. —Bill Kennedy, “Design Philosophy On Packaging” This...
All design decisions start and end with the package. —Bill Kennedy, “Design Philosophy On Packaging” This is the first of a two-part tutorial on designing Go packages, guided by tests: Write packages, not programs From packages to commands This is fine What’s wrong with this program? package main import ( "fmt" ) fu...
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Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube

engadget.com

european union google google news operational challenges political advertisers
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