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Intel celebrates the arrival of MRDIMMs – double memory bandwidth of DRAM

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(Image credit: TechPowerUp) When Intel introduced its Xeon 6 platform earlier this year, the company said...
(Image credit: TechPowerUp) When Intel introduced its Xeon 6 platform earlier this year, the company said that the new CPUs will support multiplexed rank dual inline memory modules (MRDIMMs) with the promise of bringing together high data transfer rates, low latency, high capacity, and predictable power consumption....
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Think about switching to Linux (Andrea Borman) [video]

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Java 24 to Reduce Object Header Size and Save Memory

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JEP 450 (Compact Object Headers) has been targeted for delivery in JDK 24, and has already...
JEP 450 (Compact Object Headers) has been targeted for delivery in JDK 24, and has already been merged to main. This currently experimental feature optimizes heap utilization by shrinking the size of the mandatory object header in HotSpot. This should reduce overall heap size, improve density of deployments, and inc...

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A Woman Who Defined the Great Depression

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Sanora Babb spent her life dealing with all the multifarious daily perils that prevent writers from...
Sanora Babb spent her life dealing with all the multifarious daily perils that prevent writers from writing. She was raised in poverty by a mother who was only 16 when she gave birth to her and an abusive father who spent his days playing semi-pro baseball and gambling. From the age she could walk, she was running e...

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Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table

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NYC Announces 'Drone as First Responder' Program to Reduce Response Times

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November 13, 2024 Video available at: https://youtu.be/TrBjDTcYxjc Department’s First 24/7 Formalized Drone Unit Will Immediately Deploy...
November 13, 2024 Video available at: https://youtu.be/TrBjDTcYxjc Department’s First 24/7 Formalized Drone Unit Will Immediately Deploy Aerial Autonomous Vehicles to Incident Locations and Provide Critical Information to On-the-Ground Response Teams NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police...
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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

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OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been hosting raster tiles of its dataset for much of its 20-year history....
OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been hosting raster tiles of its dataset for much of its 20-year history. These maps have had their rules and styles defined ahead of their rendering and present the end user with static PNGs. Below is a screenshot of the area around the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. This week, OSM began hosting vec...
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Paged Out #5 – hacker zine release [pdf]

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We Can't Give Up Paper Checks, and That's a Gold Mine for Scammers

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Single Line Mazes

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Expand.ai (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Turn the Web into an API

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Imagine if the internet were a database. What would you build?---We’re building out the early engineering...
Imagine if the internet were a database. What would you build?---We’re building out the early engineering team of expand.ai, where we’re (a) solving a problem the world urgently needs to be solved, that is (b) one of the most challenging problems in technology, (c) alongside a team of exceptional engineers (d) offer...
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Arm PC Base System Architecture 1.0

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Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man

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The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking...
The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking the moment when the first cohort of women, including Debbie McGee and Fay Presto, were admitted to its previously male-only ranks of magicians.But the meeting was also memorable for another, lesser known, reason. The council v...

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Take the 'Death Stairs' If You Dare

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How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling Challenges and Opportunities

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Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In the span of four decades, quantum computation...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In the span of four decades, quantum computation has evolved from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realizable technology. Today, small-scale demonstrations have become possible for quantum algorithmic primitives on hundreds of physical qubits and p...
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Hong Kong Jails Benny Tai for 10 Years in Longest Security Law Sentence

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Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)

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The MP3, the file type of most songs you listen to on a computer, is compressed....
The MP3, the file type of most songs you listen to on a computer, is compressed. Part of the reason people love vinyl records so much (even though they don’t necessarily sound “better” than digital formats), is that they are closer in format to the way you would actually hear a song if you were standing in the room ...
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Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all

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Names and emails (even Sumit’s) have been redacted to protect the innocent and the guilty. But...
Names and emails (even Sumit’s) have been redacted to protect the innocent and the guilty. But you know who you are. Who is Sumit B? If you were to ask anyone who was employed at Blackberry on November 7th, 2011 this question there will most likely be a confused look on their face, like why do I know that na- and th...
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It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start

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We started Math Acceleration pretty early into our kids’s elementary school years.We didn’t have grand goals...
We started Math Acceleration pretty early into our kids’s elementary school years.We didn’t have grand goals like “Finish Calculus by grade X,” “get selected for the US’s International Mathematical Olympiad team,” or even “start taking Algebra 1 before high school.”It was more innocent: " Our kid loves to do math, a...
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The Cosmos Teams with Complex Organic Molecules

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Building Observability with ClickHouse

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PyTorch 101: Understanding Graphs, Automatic Differentiation and Autograd

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PyTorch is one of the foremost python deep learning libraries out there. It’s the go to...
PyTorch is one of the foremost python deep learning libraries out there. It’s the go to choice for deep learning research, and as each days passes by, more and more companies and research labs are adopting this library. In this series of tutorials, we will be introducing you to PyTorch, and how to make the best use ...
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Batched reward model inference and Best-of-N sampling

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Published on November 19, 2024rReward models have been a key part of reinforcement learning on top...
Published on November 19, 2024rReward models have been a key part of reinforcement learning on top of LLMs, used broadly in techniques like RLHF and as LLM-as-a-judge critics in evals. They have also been used in the data preparation phase of preference optimization methods like SimPO, where a reward model was used ...
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Iumenta: A generic framework for animal digital twins

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