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FLUX1.1 [Pro] Ultra and Raw Modes

blackforestlabs.ai
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Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1.0

jepsen.io

Kafka is a popular streaming system which provides replicated, sharded, append-only logs. Bufstream is a drop-in...
Kafka is a popular streaming system which provides replicated, sharded, append-only logs. Bufstream is a drop-in replacement for Kafka designed to prioritize data governance and cost efficiency in cloud environments. Like Kafka, Bufstream provides a collection of named, partially ordered logs called topics. Each top...
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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows

mit.edu

There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but...
There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system.Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, t...

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US Literacy Statistics 2022-2023

thenationalliteracyinstitute.com
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TinyCC Memory and Bounds Checks

bellard.org
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Diagrams AI Can, and Cannot, Generate

ilograph.com

By now, generative artificial intelligence’s ability to create text and images is well known. Generating system...
By now, generative artificial intelligence’s ability to create text and images is well known. Generating system architecture diagrams would seem to be a natural extension of this. In this article, we examine three use cases for AI-generated system architecture diagrams. We will evaluate AI’s ability to create generi...
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How do countries measure immigration, and how accurate is this data?

ourworldindata.org
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What science reveals about our tendency toward corruption

elpais.com

A year-long experiment was conducted at the self-service checkouts of a supermarket chain in Modena and...
A year-long experiment was conducted at the self-service checkouts of a supermarket chain in Modena and Ferrara in Italy to test whether there was any link between corruption scandals and how honest consumers were with their shopping. Analyzing data from random checks on the supermarket carts, the researchers found ...
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Product Quality Through Change Management

ravenbrook.com
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Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google

wired.com

Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results....
Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for the environment. But because its results are licensed from Google and Microsoft’s Bing, Ecosia has little contr...
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The Lost Reading Items of Ilya Sutskever's AI Reading List

tensorlabbet.com

11 Nov 2024, Taro Langner In this post: An attempt to reconstruct Ilya Sutskever's 2020 AI...
11 Nov 2024, Taro Langner In this post: An attempt to reconstruct Ilya Sutskever's 2020 AI reading list (8 min read) I recently shared a summary of a viral AI reading list attributed to Ilya Sutskever, which laid claim to covering ‘90% of what matters’ back in 2020. It boils down the reading items to barely one perc...
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Rust Needs an Official Specification

tweedegolf.nl

If you know a little bit of C++: can you tell me what the output of...
If you know a little bit of C++: can you tell me what the output of the following program is?#include <stdio.h> struct Foo { ~Foo() { puts("Goodbye!"); } // runs when Foo is destructed }; int main() { Foo _tmp; // a Foo object is constructed puts("Hello"); }This is not a trick question! The answer is of course "Hell...
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Shfla: Shoegaze Hierarchical Fractal Language Architecture

github.com
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Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds

tinfoil.com
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Visual inference exploration and experimentation playground

github.com
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Islands of the Feral Pigs

hakaimagazine.com
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Visualizing World War II

wordpress.com

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and...
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human experience, the millions of twisting threads of time that created the world we live in today. And I love maps because I ...
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AWS BuilderCards

amazon.com
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The anomalous state of Uranus's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby

nature.com
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Infinite Mac: Macintosh Garden Library

persistent.info

The Macintosh Garden is a great resource in the retro Mac community. It has an archive...
The Macintosh Garden is a great resource in the retro Mac community. It has an archive of nearly every piece of software released in the 80s and 90s, complete with screenshots, manuals, and metadata like year of release and operating system requirements. From its debut Infinite Mac would let you use files from the G...
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Blame the Gerbils

lrb.co.uk

The notion that human history is determined at bottom by natural forces and non-human factors seems...
The notion that human history is determined at bottom by natural forces and non-human factors seems to be an idea whose time has come. In Prisoners of Geography (2015), Tim Marshall argued that the fate of nations depends on their rivers and mountains, frontiers and coastlines. In The Earth Transformed (2023), Pete...
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TaxGPT (YC S24) Is Hiring Staff Software Engineer

ycombinator.com
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The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture

ankush.dev
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Dev Fonts

gafi.dev

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