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Paged Out #5 – hacker zine release [pdf]

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

wsj.com
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Single Line Mazes

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

ycombinator.com

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

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

theguardian.com

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...

magicgenderuk news
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Take the 'Death Stairs' If You Dare

nytimes.com
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How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling Challenges and Opportunities

arxiv.org

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

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

vox.com

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

awadwatt.com

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

substack.com

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

quantamagazine.org
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Building Observability with ClickHouse

cmtops.dev
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PyTorch 101: Understanding Graphs, Automatic Differentiation and Autograd

digitalocean.com

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

raw.sh

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

arxiv.org
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Elon Musk's Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process (2021)

christianscheb.de

There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s...
There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s a lot of talk about rockets and stuff, though in between he’s giving some fascinating insights into the design process and the principles he’s following. The “5 Step Process” as he calls it. Wanted to write ...
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SQLite vs. PostgreSQL Performance [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: SilverStone) Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case...
(Image credit: SilverStone) Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case that it previously showed off as an April Fools’ joke is heading to retail. An unashamedly beige SilverStone FLP01 pre-built system was on display earlier in the week at the firm’s Japan Expo. Japanese t...
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New textbook teaches students about matrix methods and their real world apps

umich.edu

Mena Davidson • August 5, 2024Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing, written...
Mena Davidson • August 5, 2024Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing, written by ECE Professors Jeffrey Fessler and Raj Nadakuditi, provides an accessible and interactive guide to matrix methods. A new textbook, Linear Algebra for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Signal Processin...
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Traditional Japanese Salted Aged Salmon Recipe for 1,000 Years [video]

youtube.com

travel & events
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Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?

ycombinator.com
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Rats Learned to Drive–and They Love It

theconversation.com

animal models anticipation behavioral psychology behavioral science joy
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