Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

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Apple created unique keyboard layouts for Canada and Japan to comply with local standards, featuring distinct symbols such as Ctrl, Alt, Tab, and Esc. These custom designs were used in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being phased out or replaced by standard symbols.

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

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Sherline Tools, a USA manufacturer known for precision lathes, mills, micro-machining accessories, and more recently small CNC machines, has announced that they are “winding down manufacturing operations.” When we took over the company in 2017… we invested in new products and designs, modernized our computer systems and manufacturing processes Unfortunately, the manufacturing environment has ...

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

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The Apple iPhone 18 Pro delivers excellent overall camera performance with a wide dynamic range, improved contrast and skin tones, effective stabilization, and a well-balanced texture-noise trade-off. Its variable aperture is particularly strong in maintaining sharpness in complex scenes.

If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest?

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I’ve been thinking a lot about AGI lately, which means a lot of things to many people. It can be anything from a true, human-equivalent reasoning machine to something more akin to a God - so far ahead of us as to be a qualitative leap in intelligence. I’m actually more inclined to believe we’ll leapfrog the first and arrive at the second. And this is why: We have the power to throw more ...

A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

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FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

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The AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen edition NAS meets the author's requirements for a small, low-power FreeBSD machine with NVMe and SATA storage. The device has a metal case, quiet operation when idle, and adjustable fan settings to reduce noise.

Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

The user is setting up a script to monitor endpoint status, schedule, and recent events via SSH. They want unlimited endpoints, heartbeats, and 90 days of history on the free tier with email notifications for missed pings.

Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

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The author argues that large language models (LLMs) are not intelligent, but rather use statistical tricks to create the illusion of intelligence. This "intelligence illusion" is similar to a psychic's con, where users believe they are being read or understood by the model due to its ability to generate specific and relevant responses.

English: A vs. An

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The function a_or_an should use the spoken word's sound, not its written letter. Only 129 of 32,455 words in the data required exceptions to this rule.

Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong

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Birds sing at dawn, when air is stillest, making their songs more effective. International Dawn Chorus Day celebrates birdsong and highlights regional dialects among species.

Mathematical Billiards (2024)

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Do you enjoy a game of pool or billiards? I certainly do; I find it very satisfying to pocket a ball with a complicated shot following several bounces. I’m not a very skilled player, though, so I miss a lot of shots. Luckily, I can blame these failures on friction and inelasticity in the collisions, or on the unexpected interference of a different ball. You can imagine my relief when I ...

RSA-896

The given RSA keys are 896 bits long, with modulus RSA-896 and prime numbers p and q. The values of p and q are provided for decryption purposes.

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

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UTF-8000 is a variable-width encoding scheme that extends UTF-8, allowing for arbitrarily large code units and self-synchronization at the byte level. It uses a prefix-free code binary tree to encode content bits, which are used to store the length of the code unit in bytes.

Brood War Bench

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Researchers tested AI models' performance in Starcraft games, finding that Codex excelled at disruption but struggled with sustained production. The agents showed varying levels of improvement as they learned and adapted to the game environment.

A Model for Winning Survivor

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A user built a machine learning model to predict the winner of Survivor based on episode-by-episode analysis, using logistic regression and various features such as player age, confessional share, and immunity win rate. The model's predictions were found to be roughly 2x better than chance at picking the eventual winner.

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

阶跃星辰于2023年4月成立,以“智能阶跃,十倍每个人的可能”为使命。阶跃星辰坚定自研超级模型,积极布局算力、数据等关键资源,发挥算法和人才优势,已完成 Step-1 千亿参数语言大模型和 Step-1V 千亿多模态大模型的研发,在图像理解、多轮指令跟随、数学能力、逻辑推理、文本创作等方面性能达到业界领先水平。

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

Measure internet censorship

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Measure the speed and performance of your network with the NDT test, developed in collaboration with M-Lab. Test WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram to check if they are blocked. Run OONI Probe to check if circumvention tools work on your network.

The Millennium Problems for Biology

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Researchers aim to create self-replicating cells from a primordial soup with energy, and also develop various biotechnologies such as cryopreservation of mice, reverse translation enzymes, and protein binders.

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

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A user tests ChatGPT's ability to create posters in various styles, finding that the AI can produce unique designs but may still feel repetitive or familiar. The user discovers a range of design styles and prompts ChatGPT to generate posters in each style, resulting in distinctive and varied results.

Telling a Computer to Do Things

The author learned to write shell scripts by gradually mastering the syntax and tools, eventually gaining the ability to stitch together existing programs. They argue that knowing a shell is 20% syntax and 80% having a good toolbox of related commands.

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

This text introduces the Discrete Fourier Transform using interactive visualizations and animations to explain a complex concept in digital signal processing. The author emphasizes that this is not a rigorous resource, but rather a simplified introduction to engage readers visually.

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

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The Lemmings franchise, created by DMA Design in the early 1990s, experienced a brief period of success before declining due to poor sequels and changes in market expectations. The series' momentum was squandered with games like Lemmings 2: The Tribes and Lemmings 3D, which failed to live up to the original's charm.

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

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The author developed a non-autoregressive decision model called Laya, which provides lightning-fast probability predictions over structured schemas and is 6-8 times faster than TypeSafe AI's Jev. Laya uses reinforcement learning to guide schema-based decisions and has been open-sourced with zero API subscription costs.

Asking authors about their own papers

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

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Grant Sanderson proposes elevating the status of "motivated explanations" in mathematics, which involve explaining mathematical concepts and ideas in a clear and relatable way. He suggests giving academic credit to these types of explanations similar to what is given for generating new proofs.

How to Write with an LLM

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A writer shares two rules to use Large Language Models (LLMs) effectively, avoiding "LLM-creep" that can make writing sound unnatural. By using LLMs as a copyeditor rather than a ghostwriter and following these rules, writers can improve their work without losing their unique voice.