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A Mathematician in a School of Art

mathvalues.org

Within the intersection of mathematics and art lie beautiful creations to delight mathematicians and artists alike....
Within the intersection of mathematics and art lie beautiful creations to delight mathematicians and artists alike. Mathematics may be the muse that inspires art or serves a more fundamental role alongside a brush, lathe, or loom. To gain greater context on this field, we interview Dr. Edmund Harriss, a mathematicia...
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From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod

openmw.org
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Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

github.com
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B2C billing is harder than B2B billing

arnon.dk

We all love a B2B SaaS ❤️. A few months ago I wrote about 14 reasons...
We all love a B2B SaaS ❤️. A few months ago I wrote about 14 reasons why building your own billing system (mostly for B2B SaaS) is hard. Here are 6 more so that we can round it up to a nice 20! While we all really do love a B2B, we often neglect to consider how B2Cs like Spotify, Netflix, HelloFresh, ClassPass, and...
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OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations

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PgPDF: Pdf Type and Functions for Postgres

github.com
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Zig Reproduced Without Binaries

jakstys.lt

I decided to bootstrap Zig without using binaries that are checked in the repository and answer...
I decided to bootstrap Zig without using binaries that are checked in the repository and answer if the resulting zig1.wasm in the latest Zig release (0.13.0) is the same the one bootstrapped without using those binaries. TLDR: yes, they are the same: $ sha256sum code/zig{,2}/stage1/zig1.wasm 127909fb8c9610ce3f296d8a...
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AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel

pcguide.com

You can trust PC Guide: Our team of experts use a combination of independent consumer research,...
You can trust PC Guide: Our team of experts use a combination of independent consumer research, in-depth testing where appropriate - which will be flagged as such, and market analysis when recommending products, software and services. Find out how we test here. AMD’s latest gaming processor launched on November 7th ...
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Cock.li Is on Red Alert

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Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac

simonwillison.net

12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open...
12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well deserved. Qwen claim: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct has become the current SOTA open-source code mode...
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Australian real estate agent hallucinates two schools in rental listing

theguardian.com

The principal of a branch of one of Australia’s largest real estate companies has admitted using...
The principal of a branch of one of Australia’s largest real estate companies has admitted using ChatGPT to generate property listings after a rental home was advertised as being close to two “excellent” schools that didn’t exist.LJ Hooker made the errors in the listing for a four-bedroom home it has advertised for ...
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The Product-Market Fit Scale

substack.com

Everyone aims for product-market fit. But, how do you know if you are on track to...
Everyone aims for product-market fit. But, how do you know if you are on track to get there?Listen for the right signalsIf the signals increasingly come from further to the right, you are nearing product-market fitIf the signals increasingly come from further to the left, you are moving away from product-market fitC...
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U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050

energy.gov

From running in the Olympics to running reactors, Paul Terek has found a home at Diablo...
From running in the Olympics to running reactors, Paul Terek has found a home at Diablo Canyon. Paul Terek used to be one of the top decathletes in the world. He was an All-American at Michigan State University and competed for Team USA in Athens, Greece, during the 2004 Olympic Games.After injuries sidelined his ca...
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Solid-State Battery

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Battery with solid electrodes and a solid electrolyte A solid-state battery is an electrical battery that...
Battery with solid electrodes and a solid electrolyte A solid-state battery is an electrical battery that uses a solid electrolyte for ionic conductions between the electrodes, instead of the liquid or gel polymer electrolytes found in conventional batteries.[1] Solid-state batteries theoretically offer much higher ...
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Samantha Harvey's 'beautiful and ambitious' Orbital wins Booker prize

theguardian.com

Orbital by Samantha Harvey, the only British writer shortlisted this year, has won the 2024 Booker...
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, the only British writer shortlisted this year, has won the 2024 Booker prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for fiction.Harvey’s tale of six fictional astronauts on the International Space Station was “unanimously” chosen as the winner after a “proper day” considering the six-strong sho...
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We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug at Netflix

substack.com
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2024

backblaze.com
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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

transitapp.com
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Eventually consistent plain text accounting

tylercipriani.com
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Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan's konbini

theguardian.com

Kenji Yamamoto was unsure that his business would survive when he opened Japan’s first convenience store...
Kenji Yamamoto was unsure that his business would survive when he opened Japan’s first convenience store in a Tokyo neighbourhood in May 1974. The 7-Eleven outlet he ran with his wife stocked tinned food and detergents, items that most people had previously bought from supermarkets. His first sale was a pair of sung...
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80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC

github.com
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Why Docker Compose Falls Short as Self-Hosting Scales

tealok.tech

Docker-compose is a tool for working with Docker containers. It solves very real problems with deploying...
Docker-compose is a tool for working with Docker containers. It solves very real problems with deploying complex applications. By itself it is not enough to make self-hosting applications simple enough for the mass-market. What we need is something like docker-compose, but at a higher level of abstraction that has a...

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Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry

privacyguides.net
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How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows

hitsubscribe.com

I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our...
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a blueprint fo...
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