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Extracting time series features: a powerful method from a obscure paper [pdf]

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'Elon killed my resale': Bay Area Tesla owners using stickers to avoid backlash

sfchronicle.com
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'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability

quantamagazine.org

The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in...
The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that a sufficiently clever “demon” could predict the entire future given a complete knowledge of the present. His thought experiment marked the height of optimism about what physicists ...
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Integrated sensing and communication based on space-time-coding metasurfaces

nature.com
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UEFI-Only Support for AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics and Later

amd.com
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Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil

theverge.com
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Performance Measures and Incentives, Lessons from a Famous Corporate Implosion

coyoteblog.com

Part of a Series: Organizational Design, Behavior, and Change To understand why organizations grow senescent, get...
Part of a Series: Organizational Design, Behavior, and Change To understand why organizations grow senescent, get fat, and fail – whether they be public or private – there is probably no topic more important than performance measures and incentives. Many readers will know that I have spent 25 years working with gove...
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Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator

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1875 historical simulation morse code telegraph simulator telegraphy
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Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf]

archive.org
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ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Rust Database Engineer

notion.site
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Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills

santafe.edu

Large language models like GPT-4, the one behind ChatGPT, train on vast stores of data to...
Large language models like GPT-4, the one behind ChatGPT, train on vast stores of data to complete one task: Produce a convincing sequence of words in response to a user’s written request. The tools seem to do more than that, however. Researchers have reported extensively on the models’ apparent abilities to complet...
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Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere

pola.rs

When I started working on Polars, I was surprised how much DataFrame implementations differed from SQL...
When I started working on Polars, I was surprised how much DataFrame implementations differed from SQL and databases. SQL could run anywhere 1. It could run embedded, on a client server model, or on full OLAP data warehouses. Whereas for dataframes, the API was different per use case and performance was drastically ...
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Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation

motorillustrated.com

electric vehicles incentives tesla
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Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]

youtube.com

film & animation
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Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds

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How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars

propublica.org

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign...
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Cars for Cutting in Line: For years, a towing company got to cut the line at the DMV in exchange for selling towed cars at ...
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Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans

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Two weak spots in Big Tech economics

pluralistic.net

Today's links Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (permalink) Big Tech's astonishing scale is matched...
Today's links Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (permalink) Big Tech's astonishing scale is matched only by its farcical valuations – price-to-earnings ratios that consistently dwarf the capitalization of traditional hard-goods businesses. For example, Amazon's profit-to-earnings ratio is 37.65; Target's is only ...
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Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle

theregister.com

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware appears to be a big success, on the balance sheet at least,...
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware appears to be a big success, on the balance sheet at least, after the company announced a big majority of its top 10,000 customers have decided to acquire its Cloud Foundation stack and posted strong growth. The chips-and-code company today announced its results for the quarter ended...
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Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London

londoncentric.media

There was a lot of coverage of this week’s London Centric story on Lime bike safety,...
There was a lot of coverage of this week’s London Centric story on Lime bike safety, with ITV London running the reporting on its evening bulletins and national news outlets following it up. London Centric’s own documentary about the subject is now available to view on YouTube.London Centric’s growth was profiled in...
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No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard

arstechnica.com

Most Android phones ship with Google's Gboard as the default input option. It's a reliable, feature-rich...
Most Android phones ship with Google's Gboard as the default input option. It's a reliable, feature-rich on-screen keyboard, so most folks just keep using it instead of installing a third-party option. Depending on how you feel about circles, it might be time to check out some of those alternatives. Google has quiet...
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Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk

wired.com

“18F was the people’s tech shop,” one fired 18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole...
“18F was the people’s tech shop,” one fired 18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole left by the closure of 18F. Requests from across the country for help far outpaced 18F’s capacity before the closure.”Like 18F, the United States Digital Service, which the Trump administration rebranded into DOGE, has seen wav...
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Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

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By McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis BlachezA Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for...
By McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis BlachezA Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the resp...
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The features of Python's help() function

pythonmorsels.com

Python has a built-in help function for getting help... but what can do with help? The...
Python has a built-in help function for getting help... but what can do with help? The help function can be used to lookup documentation for: Functions Modules Any Object Symbols Keywords Topics Let's take a look at all 6 uses of help. We'll start with the most common 3 uses: functions, modules, and all other object...
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