Astronomers have discovered a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system, which orbits a brown dwarf, not a planet. This object is at least as massive as Jupiter and is difficult to label due to the system's unique characteristics.
A new survey finds nearly a quarter of US workers stay in unwanted jobs for health insurance, rising to 41% with chronic health conditions. The author advocates for universal healthcare, citing benefits such as improved wages, working conditions, and innovation.
The goal is to create a simplified 3D graphics API clone from scratch using OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX, focusing on understanding the underlying concepts rather than writing GPU applications. The initial task involves creating a software renderer that can load a 3D model and render it to an image file, starting with basic functionality to set pixel colors.
Tech giants like Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are hiding $1.65 trillion in debt off their balance sheets, using special purpose vehicles to make their financial reporting appear healthier. This has experts warning of an AI bubble and increased vulnerability if the industry fails to generate demand to justify massive data center investments.
Writing by hand with a fountain pen on paper can be beneficial for the brain and reduce fatigue, but it requires finding the right balance of friction and using the right type of paper. To get started, consider using a fountain pen with a fine nib on inexpensive paper and gradually move to more expensive pens and paper as you develop your writing style.
The author tested Pangram, an AI detection tool, on 45 old books scanned from physical copies and found it accurately identified AI-generated text from OCR errors, not memorization. Pangram's 1 in 10,000 false positive rate seems to hold true, but human review is still necessary for reliable results.
Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and codeβall in one place. Get started for free or download the app.
The Telegarden is an art installation that allowed web users to interact with a remote garden from 1995 to 2004. It was a virtual community where members could plant, water, and monitor seedlings via an industrial robot arm, fostering social interaction and community in virtual space.
The Unity CLI is a standalone binary for managing Unity projects, editors, and modules from the terminal. It allows automation, structured output, and service-account auth for CI, and can drive a running Editor or Player with the com.unity.pipeline package.
The author reflects on their experience as a library shelver, where they developed a habit of reading random pages from books, leading to a filtered form of auto-didacticism. This experience sparked a passion for non-fiction books, which they believe are in a golden age despite declining readership.
Cruller is a production-focused Bun runtime ported to Zig 0.16, a fork of the last Zig-based Bun release. It includes key features like JavaScriptCore, HTTP/1-3, and static serving, while removing the package manager and bundler.
SIMD allows CPUs to operate on multiple values in parallel, resulting in significant speedups for large datasets. By following a common five-step pattern, developers can easily write SIMD code that is nearly as simple as a scalar loop.
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The user shares their production-ready eglot setup for Emacs, which includes customizations for languages like Scala, Kotlin, and Java, and provides a seamless development experience with features like auto-formatting and inlay hints. By leveraging Emacs Lisp and JSON-RPC advice, the user is able to work around language server limitations and tailor the behavior to their needs, showcasing the ...
Gigatoken is a fast tokenizer for language modeling that supports various CPUs and tokenizers, offering significant speed improvements over HuggingFace Tokenizers. It uses SIMD and caching to achieve 1000x faster byte-pair encoding tokenization.
A user tested seven AI models on generating SVGs of animals on vehicles, including the famous "pelican on a bicycle" prompt, and found no evidence that labs are optimizing their models to achieve high scores on this benchmark. The results suggest that AI labs may be using a technique called "SVGmaxxing" to improve their overall performance, rather than specifically optimizing for the pelican ...
The boundary=administrative tag is used on relations that define an administrative area β territories recognised by governments for administrative purposes. This works rather like multipolygon β the relation consists of one or more boundary ways that must make up a closed area. Administrative boundaries range from large groups of nation-states down to small administrative districts. An ...
ANSI escape sequences can be used to inject malicious instructions into AI models, which can then be executed without being visible to human reviewers. Automated detection tools can identify this type of attack by inspecting raw bytes and applying a three-signal rule to detect the presence of ANSI escape sequences, instruction phrases, and trigger markers in model-consumable fields.
The user sets up a conda environment for TTT3R, installs necessary packages, and runs inference with the TTT3R model on videos. The model is trained for 3D reconstruction and can be run with various parameters for visualization and output.
Codeberg's new terms worry me because they decide which projects are welcome, not just banning specific ones. This marks a shift from a free-software host to a platform that enforces its own ideology.
Codeberg e. V. members voted to prohibit using user data to train Large Language Models and to change terms of use to prohibit 'vibe-coded projects'.
The author feels a strong connection to making things and finds fulfillment in creating projects, but struggles with claiming credit for AI-generated work. They believe there's a difference between making something and asking someone else to make it.
The user is creating a guide for optimizing Postgres performance, covering topics such as indexing, query planning, and autovacuum, and recommends using connection poolers and batching to improve throughput. The guide also touches on advanced Postgres features like row-level locking, partitioning, and triggers, and provides tips for migrating large tables and avoiding table bloat.
The Amiga 1000 computer was introduced in 1985, 10 years ahead of its time, with a custom chipset, graphical user interface, and full preemptive multitasking. Despite its innovative features, Commodore's poor marketing and management led to the company's bankruptcy and the Amiga's decline.
The user is a researcher and writer who studies expertise, particularly in domains like medicine, military tactics, and petrochemical safety, and approaches expertise from a Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) perspective. They explain that expertise is not about memorization or explicit knowledge, but rather about developing tacit knowledge and pattern recognition through experience, and that ...
Cactus uses post-training probes to score model confidence and reroute queries to a bigger model when low. The Gemma 4 E2B Hybrid model achieves 0.79-0.88 AUROC on four audio benchmarks, indicating a modality-independent correctness signal from the hidden state.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John C. Dvorak, our beloved husband, father, and cherished host of the No Agenda Show at the age of 74. More to follow.
The user automated a task of copying GitHub issues to an Org file in Emacs by leveraging the GitHub command line utility gh and Elisp packages, resulting in a tool called fj. This example demonstrates the malleable computing capabilities of Emacs, allowing users to create new behavior by recombining existing libraries and programs in an improvised fashion.
The user visited a Filipino restaurant that revamped its menu with AI-generated designs, which they found disturbing and poorly done. They ordered the spamsilog, a comfort food dish, for $10, but were conflicted about supporting a small business that used AI in its signage.