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Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory

worldsensorium.com

Y ears ago, I traveled to Amboise, to the Château of Clos Lucé in France’s Loire...
Y ears ago, I traveled to Amboise, to the Château of Clos Lucé in France’s Loire Valley, where Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance polymath artist, architect, mathematician, biologist, physicist, and aeronaut, spent his final years. In 1516, he accepted King Francis I’s invitation to settle there and work on a variet...
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Pathfinder – An AI-Powered Itinerary Planner

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The geometry of data: the missing metric tensor and the Stein score [Part II]

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Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby. / The James Webb Space Telescope captures gravitational lensing,...
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby. / The James Webb Space Telescope captures gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that can be modeled using differential geometry. Note: This is a continuation of the previous post: Thoughts on Riemannian metrics and its connection with diffusion/score matching [Part I], so if you...

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MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

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C Gibberish to English

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BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners

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DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration

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Safe and efficient C++ interoperability via non-escapable types and lifetimes

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Safely interacting with unsafe code is challenging. The C++ interoperability layer has limited safeguards in place...
Safely interacting with unsafe code is challenging. The C++ interoperability layer has limited safeguards in place to mitigate some sources of unsafety including hiding some APIs (like methods returning iterators) and exposing them with an “Unsafe” suffix. Unfortunately, these are based on simple syntactic heuristic...
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TTEK Has Passed

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Lessons from My First Exit

mtlynch.io

In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran...
In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years.I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about the practical lessons I learned from the experience.In this post, I’m sharing what went well, what I want to improve in t...
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Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory

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Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see...
Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.In order to protect Gwern's anonymity, I proposed interviewing him in person, and having my friend Chris Painter voice ...
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Choose Boring Technology and LLMs

maragu.dev

November 2024I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it...
November 2024I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming language. Throw LLMs into that mix, and yo...
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WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly

leaningtech.com

WebVM is a full Linux environment running in the browser, client-side. It is a complete virtual...
WebVM is a full Linux environment running in the browser, client-side. It is a complete virtual machine, with support for persistent data storage, networking and, as of today’s release, Xorg and complete desktop environments. In an instance of WebVM, everything executes locally within the browser sandbox. WebVM runs...
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A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library

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Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video]

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I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100

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GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics

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The classic PC games market is "in a sorry state," according to DRM-free and classic-minded storefront...
The classic PC games market is "in a sorry state," according to DRM-free and classic-minded storefront GOG. Small games that aren't currently selling get abandoned, and compatibility issues arise as technology moves forward or as one-off development ideas age like milk. Classic games are only 20 percent of GOG's cat...
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Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

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Mozilla's Firefox browser clocked its second decade over the weekend, an event celebrated by Mozilla Corporation...
Mozilla's Firefox browser clocked its second decade over the weekend, an event celebrated by Mozilla Corporation CEO Laura Chambers. "Firefox turns 20 today!" said Chambers in a social media post. "It’s so inspiring to think of all we’ve achieved together to keep the internet open and people-first. Firefox has alway...
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Five Learnings from 15 Years in Perception

tangramvision.com

In the fall of 2008, I was working on my third startup, ReTel Technologies. Our goal...
In the fall of 2008, I was working on my third startup, ReTel Technologies. Our goal was to analyze shopper behavior in grocery stores, and use that data to help stores and brands improve the customer experience and store profitability. But we had a challenge: how do you anonymously track hundreds of shoppers per da...
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The Particle Data Group

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NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

nxtrace.org

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14yo suicides after Santa Clara schoolmates bully him about being homeless

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS THINKING OF SUICIDE, THE NATIONAL...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS THINKING OF SUICIDE, THE NATIONAL HOTLINE IS 988, WHICH IS AVAILABLE 24/7. A South Bay father said his teenage son took his own life after being bullied by other students at the high school they attended because he was homeless. And now, Jose Bautista wants to shar...

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JSON for Classic C++

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