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Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements

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Medley Loops: The Basic System (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) [pdf]

interlisp.org
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Data Version Control

dvc.org

data version control machine learning models management
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Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers

arxiv.org

View PDF Abstract:Despite their remarkable effectiveness and broad application, the drivers of success underlying ensembles of...
View PDF Abstract:Despite their remarkable effectiveness and broad application, the drivers of success underlying ensembles of trees are still not fully understood. In this paper, we highlight how interpreting tree ensembles as adaptive and self-regularizing smoothers can provide new intuition and deeper insight to ...
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A Distributed Systems Reading List

dancres.github.io
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Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

scientificamerican.com

Scholars have long contemplated the connection between language and thought—and to what degree the two are...
Scholars have long contemplated the connection between language and thought—and to what degree the two are intertwined—by asking whether language is somehow an essential prerequisite for thinking.British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell answered the question with a flat yes, asserting that language’s v...
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U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed

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DETROIT — The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” system after getting...
DETROIT — The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday after...
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As America's Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms

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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.The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong.Credit...Sonny Figuer...
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Contrary to Occam's Razor, the Simplest Explanation Is Often Not the Best One

scientificamerican.com

If you’ve ever hung around scientists, you’ve most likely at some point heard one of them...
If you’ve ever hung around scientists, you’ve most likely at some point heard one of them say “the best explanation is the simplest one.” But is it? From the behavior of ants to the occurrence of tornadoes, the natural world is often quite complex. Why should we assume the simplest explanation is closest to the trut...
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Meta layoffs are latest sign that constant job cuts are the new Big Tech normal

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The hashtag affixed to Andy Welfle's LinkedIn photo says it all: #sickofthisshit.Welfle wrote earlier this month...
The hashtag affixed to Andy Welfle's LinkedIn photo says it all: #sickofthisshit.Welfle wrote earlier this month that he was laid off from Microsoft after only nine months. He'd previously spent nine months at Cruise before being laid off.His dual layoffs might have been worse than what many others experienced, but ...

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Did Automattic commit open source theft?

pragmaticengineer.com
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Spectra is a customizable, JavaScript ESP32 smartwatch

cnx-software.com

Spectra is a JavaScript-based hackable smartwatch based on the ESP32-S3 WiFi and Bluetooth microcontroller that aims...
Spectra is a JavaScript-based hackable smartwatch based on the ESP32-S3 WiFi and Bluetooth microcontroller that aims to offer the quality of high-end consumer smartwatches with the repairability of a maker-targeted device. The Spectra smartwatch combines the ESP32-S3 microcontroller with a Nordic Semi nRF52832 co-pr...
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Implementing Regular Expressions in TypeScript Types (Badly)

skalt.github.io
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Plastic – A Modern NES Emulator That Works with EGUI and TUI

github.com
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Bluesky gains 1.2M in 2 days, 12M total after X disables blocking

entrepreneur.com

X users may be migrating to bluer skies after a major change.Bluesky is an open, ad-free...
X users may be migrating to bluer skies after a major change.Bluesky is an open, ad-free social network that grew out of Twitter, now X, in 2019. The platform announced on Thursday that half a million new users signed up within a day of X announcing that it would be changing up its blocking feature "soon." Blocked u...

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Eliza in SNOBOL4

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WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)

oct8l.gitlab.io

I had a spare Pi Zero (version 1.3 used for these tests) laying around, and I...
I had a spare Pi Zero (version 1.3 used for these tests) laying around, and I thought I’d try and check out what some basic performance marks were when running the Pi Zero as a WireGuard server. I haven’t been able to find a whole lot of other benchmarks for running WireGuard on a Pi Zero, so I thought I’d try some ...
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Probabalistic Spin Glass (2022)

bytepawn.com

I wrote 5 posts on probabilistic spin glasses: Part I Part II Part III Part IV...
I wrote 5 posts on probabilistic spin glasses: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Here I will summarize my main findings, misses, and reflect what I still don't have a good feel for. Motivation My motivation for studying these systems was to discuss a toy model similar to spin glasses, but without having to intr...

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Boeing, Union reach wage deal to end strike

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S3 as a Git remote and LFS server

github.com
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Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send

vis.ee
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Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

economist.com
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Writing system software: code comments. (2018)

antirez.com
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Rivian (RIVN) clashes with Bosch in new legal battle over EV motors

electrek.co

EV maker Rivian (RIVN) is locked in a new legal battle with the world’s largest auto...
EV maker Rivian (RIVN) is locked in a new legal battle with the world’s largest auto parts supplier, Bosch. Both sides traded lawsuits against each other as Rivian moves in its own direction. In 2019, Rivian and Bosch signed an agreement to supply e-motors for its electric models, the R1T and R1S. According to Crain...
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