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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

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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

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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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The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere

tangramvision.com

Previously, we talked about [Pinhole Obsession](https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/camera-modeling-pinhole-obsession) and the downsides of assuming a default pinhole model. We...
Previously, we talked about [Pinhole Obsession](https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/camera-modeling-pinhole-obsession) and the downsides of assuming a default pinhole model. We presented an alternative formulation where rays are modeled on the unit sphere \\(\mathcal{S}^2\\) instead of the normalized image plane \\(\...
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Why so many families are "drowning in toys"

vox.com
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The Surprising Social Lives of Pythons

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live soc...
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TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash

yossarian.net
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What Made Dostoevsky's Work Immortal

wyounas.com

Along with air, earth, water, and fire, money is the fifth natural force a human being...
Along with air, earth, water, and fire, money is the fifth natural force a human being has to reckon with most often. This is one, if not the main, reason why today, one hundred years after Dostoevsky’s death, his novels preserve their relevance. – Joseph Brodsky. Image sourced from pexels.comJoseph Brodsky is a nam...
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Clojure Don'ts: Concat

stuartsierra.com

Welcome to what I hope will be an ongoing series of Clojure do’s and don’ts. I...
Welcome to what I hope will be an ongoing series of Clojure do’s and don’ts. I want to demonstrate not just good patterns to use, but also anti-patterns to avoid. Some of these will be personal preferences, others will be warnings from hard-won experience. I’ll try to indicate which is which. First up: concat. conca...
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Show HN: OnePageGA – Simple dashboard for GA4 like Plausible

onepagega.com
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Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics? (2023)

thegradient.pub

Large Language Models (LLM) are on fire, capturing public attention by their ability to provide seemingly...
Large Language Models (LLM) are on fire, capturing public attention by their ability to provide seemingly impressive completions to user prompts (NYT coverage). They are a delicate combination of a radically simplistic algorithm with massive amounts of data and computing power. They are trained by playing a guess-th...
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Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’

narratively.com
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Key Transparency and the Right to Be Forgotten

soatok.blog

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions...
This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2EE.) Although the reasons for specific design decisions should be immediately obvious from reading the relevant specific...
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Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project

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A giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly,...
A giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment, males butt into each other as they jockey for a good position to fertilize eggs.These are scenes local tribes have drea...
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The Ancients Had Ops

reedmeyerson.com
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Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates

github.com
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From string to AST: parsing

kubuszok.com
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FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine

goto10retro.com

One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was...
One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was an issue of FaSTer disk magazine. I had thought that it was a sealed copy, but although it was still in its shrink-wrap, it was not actually sealed.FaSTer was a Canadian magazine and what made it unique is that it was distributed on floppy disk!I...
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Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

netlify.com
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