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Against the Dark Forest

wrecka.ge

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery...
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions—initially in Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler’s freeform noticings that apply science fiction writer Liu Cixin's dark forest theory of the universe to social media, then in ...
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Introducing Sill: Aggregate popular links on BlueSky and Mastodon

tylerjfisher.com

Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill...
Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and aggregates the most popular links in your network. (Yes, a little like Nuzzel.) Sill Today Today, Sill has a small but powerful feature set. Sill can: Connect to your Bluesky and Mas...
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How did you do on the AI art Turing test?

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Texas Opens Investigation into Conspiracy to Boycott Certain Social Platforms

texasattorneygeneral.gov
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Latest graphics driver for your Surface devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite

qualcomm.com

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MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents

mit.edu

Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to...
Fields ranging from robotics to medicine to political science are attempting to train AI systems to make meaningful decisions of all kinds. For example, using an AI system to intelligently control traffic in a congested city could help motorists reach their destinations faster, while improving safety or sustainabili...

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'King Arthur's Hall' is five times older than thought, researchers discover

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Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser

jordaneldredge.com

Nov 19, 2024TL;DR several years ago I got a proof of concept working where I was...
Nov 19, 2024TL;DR several years ago I got a proof of concept working where I was able to render highly interactive “modern” Winamp skins in the browser by reverse engineering Maki byte code and implementing an interpreter for it in JavaScript. You can try the proof of concept in your browser.One of the most rewardin...
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Reliably Benchmarking Small Changes – Ankush Menat

ankush.dev
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ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom

buttondown.com

November 22, 2024 By Emily On November 20, 2024, OpenAI and an outfit called "Common Sense...
November 22, 2024 By Emily On November 20, 2024, OpenAI and an outfit called "Common Sense Media" released a guide to using ChatGPT in K-12 education—a guide which shows a shocking lack of common sense. Just as Melanie Dusseau tells us in the context of higher ed, K-12 educators can and should resist this sales pitc...
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Template Mixins

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A TemplateMixin takes an arbitrary set of declarations from the body of a TemplateDeclaration and inserts...
A TemplateMixin takes an arbitrary set of declarations from the body of a TemplateDeclaration and inserts them into the current context. TemplateMixinDeclaration: mixin template Identifier TemplateParameters Constraintopt { DeclDefsopt } TemplateMixin: mixin MixinTemplateName TemplateArgumentsopt Identifieropt ; mix...

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Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using Peg

duckdb.org

This post is a shortened version of our peer-reviewed research paper "Runtime-Extensible Parsers" that was accepted...
This post is a shortened version of our peer-reviewed research paper "Runtime-Extensible Parsers" that was accepted for publication and presentation at the 2025 Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) that is going to be held in Amsterdam between January 19 and 22, 2025. You can read the full paper if ...
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Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

wired.com

For determined hackers, sitting in a car outside a target's building and using radio equipment to...
For determined hackers, sitting in a car outside a target's building and using radio equipment to breach its Wi-Fi network has long been an effective but risky technique. These risks became all too clear when spies working for Russia's GRU military intelligence agency were caught red-handed on a city street in the N...
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Feds release options for Colorado River as negotiations between states stall

phys.org

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How Distributed Systems Avoid Race Conditions Using Pessimistic Locking?

scalablethread.com

When two updates to a data source are executed in a single-process system, they are always...
When two updates to a data source are executed in a single-process system, they are always run one after the other, as the process will only be working on one update at a particular time. However, in a multi-process system, there is a chance that the two updates can be executed at the same time by the processes on t...
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Writing efficient unit tests in Java

qodo.ai
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Translating My Grandfather's Biograpy

korny.info
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Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough

quantum-machines.co

Imagine trying to balance thousands of spinning tops at the same time—each top representing a qubit,...
Imagine trying to balance thousands of spinning tops at the same time—each top representing a qubit, the fundamental building block of a quantum computer. Now imagine these tops are so sensitive that even a slight breeze, a tiny vibration, or a quick peek to see if they’re still spinning could make them wobble or fa...
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Turning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels

mit.edu

Reducing methane emissions is a top priority in the fight against climate change because of its...
Reducing methane emissions is a top priority in the fight against climate change because of its propensity to trap heat in the atmosphere: Methane’s warming effects are 84 times more potent than CO2 over a 20-year timescale.And yet, as the main component of natural gas, methane is also a valuable fuel and a precurso...

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How decentralized is Bluesky really?

dustycloud.org

Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has...
Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular, and excitement for its underlying protocol, ATProto, is growing. Since I worked on ActivityPub which connects together Mastodon, Sharkey, Peertube, GotoSocial, etc, etc, etc in the present-day fed...
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Wasp (YC W21) is hiring a framework engineer to build Laravel for JavaScript

ycombinator.com
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Phased Array Microphone (2023)

benwang.dev

A 192-channel phased array microphone, with FPGA data acquisition and beamforming/visualization on the GPU. Phased arrays...
A 192-channel phased array microphone, with FPGA data acquisition and beamforming/visualization on the GPU. Phased arrays allow for applications not possible with traditional directional microphones, as the directionality can be changed instantly, after the recording is made, or even be focused at hundreds of thousa...
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Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival

cnbc.com

Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesAmazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion...
Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesAmazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.The new funding brings the tech giant's total investment to $8 billion, though Amazon will retain its position as a minority i...

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Toddlers Shoot Three People Every Month in Texas

kfox95.com

I came across a statistic that a toddler (1,2, or 3 years old) has shot a...
I came across a statistic that a toddler (1,2, or 3 years old) has shot a person every week in the United States since 2016. Accidental shootings by children keep happening.According to CBS at least 895 children five and under found a gun and unintentionally shot themselves or someone else from 2015 to 2022 in the U...

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