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Automated smooth N'th order derivatives of noisy, non-uniformly sampled data

github.com
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AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

github.com
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Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol

citizenlab.ca

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Standing desks may be bad for your health, study suggests

theguardian.com

They have been billed as the ultimate antidote to sitting in front of a screen all...
They have been billed as the ultimate antidote to sitting in front of a screen all day at the office. But a study suggests standing desks, which have soared in popularity in recent years, do not compensate for being inactive and may even increase the risk of conditions such as swollen veins and blood clots in the le...
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AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

petewarden.com

I’ve long been a fan of Qualcomm’s NPUs, and I even collaborated with them to get...
I’ve long been a fan of Qualcomm’s NPUs, and I even collaborated with them to get experimental support for the underlying HVX DSP into TensorFlow back in 2017 (traces remain here). That meant I was very excited when I heard they were bringing those same accelerators to Windows tablets, offering up to 45 trillion ops...
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The Sound of the Dialup, Pictured

windytan.com

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember that it made...
If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember that it made a peculiar sound. But despite becoming so familiar, it remained a mystery for most of us. What do these sounds mean? [HTML5 audio: In-line recording of the beginning of a telephone call made by a modem.] (The audio was recorde...
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Citizen: A server-side Node.js web app framework for fans of classic app servers

github.com
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Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

theregister.com

The parents of a Massachusetts child are taking his school to court after the student was...
The parents of a Massachusetts child are taking his school to court after the student was punished for using AI in a class project. The individual, named only as RNH, admitted to teachers that they had used AI when writing a Social Studies project in December, but claimed it was only for research and not to write th...
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Mt Rainier Elevation Survey

countryhighpoints.com

Mt Rainier Elevation Survey On the SW Rim looking back towards Columbia Crest Aug 27-28 and...
Mt Rainier Elevation Survey On the SW Rim looking back towards Columbia Crest Aug 27-28 and Sept 21, 2024 Eric Gilbertson, Josh Spitzberg, Ross Wallette, Alden Ryno Summary of Results (NGVD29 Datum): Columbia Crest has melted 21.8 ft since 1998, revealing a new summit location on the SW Rim Columbia Crest: 14,389.2 ...
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Reinventing Core Data Development with SwiftData Principles

fatbobman.com

In modern application development, an efficient persistence framework is crucial. The emergence of SwiftData once caught...
In modern application development, an efficient persistence framework is crucial. The emergence of SwiftData once caught the eyes of many Core Data developers, who anticipated the advent of a new era integrating modern programming concepts. This article will explore how to apply SwiftData’s way of thinking within Co...

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The Great Splunkbundling (2021)

substack.com

Thanks for being here! Every month-ish, I’ll publish a new thesis, interview with an enterprise operator,...
Thanks for being here! Every month-ish, I’ll publish a new thesis, interview with an enterprise operator, or commentary on happenings in b2b land.Right now, I'm thinking about investment opportunities within the SIEM & logging infrastructure stack, and ways to disrupt Splunk from a technical perspective. Thinking ab...
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We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger

mobeigi.com
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International 'race science' network funded by US tech boss

theguardian.com

An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on...
An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur.Undercover filming has revealed the existence of the organisation, formed two years ago as the Human ...
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The not-so-glamourous origins of standard railway track gauge

medium.com

A version of this article also appeared in Issue 898 (12 February 2020) of RAIL magazine.Last...
A version of this article also appeared in Issue 898 (12 February 2020) of RAIL magazine.Last year, a Twitter thread about the permanent way promptly “did an internet” and went viral. This was as much a surprise to me as it might be to you. And not just because track engineering isn’t credited with being the glamoro...

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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

theguardian.com

‘If you know your Flann O’Brien, you’ll know that bike maintenance and philosophy go arse-on-saddle in...
‘If you know your Flann O’Brien, you’ll know that bike maintenance and philosophy go arse-on-saddle in this country,” Niall Hare, the 63-year-old headteacher at Kishoge community college in Dublin, told me. He was running through what his students do on their “transition year”, which is the missing fourth year (a ye...
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Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew

ycombinator.com
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Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative

simplelister.com
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Trapped

itch.io

Try out the demo on its dedicated server: visit the mobile-demo, then come back here and...
Try out the demo on its dedicated server: visit the mobile-demo, then come back here and share your feedback :) > Connection Established You're aimlessly browsing the Internet when you suddenly stumble upon a page that links you to a remote terminal. There’s someone on the other side. > Discover an AI Narrative-Driv...
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Reflections on Palantir

substack.com

Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a...
Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a tear, and the company is nearing a $100bn market cap. VCs chase ex-Palantir founders asking to invest.For long-time employees and alumni of the company, this feels deeply weird. During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you wor...
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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding BDRs

ycombinator.com
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Optimizing the Ion compiler back end

spidermonkey.dev

In September, machine learning engineers at Mozilla filed a bug report indicating that Firefox was consuming...
In September, machine learning engineers at Mozilla filed a bug report indicating that Firefox was consuming excessive memory and CPU resources while running Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime (a machine learning library) compiled to WebAssembly. This post describes how we addressed this and some of our longer-term plans for ...
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MicroPython Playground in WebAssembly Unicorn.js CPU Emulator

micropython.org
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What I Learned from Making the Python Back End for My New Webapp

youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com

I stumbled onto the idea for this app by seeing how much time my wife, who...
I stumbled onto the idea for this app by seeing how much time my wife, who is a YouTube creator who makes videos about learning music theory, spent preparing additional materials to give to her Patreon supporters as an extra "thank you" for supporting her videos. While it would be nice for her to have really good, a...
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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

arstechnica.com

Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its "Legacy Player Code" on...
Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its "Legacy Player Code" on September 24 so that developers could "contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve." Less than a month later, that repository has been entirely deleted, after it either bumped up ag...
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