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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors. 1 The Pentium incl...
Note: Based on Ken Shirriff's article "[Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit](https://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-floating-point-ROM.html)", here is an outline of each section with explanations of the findings: | Section | Findings | |---|---| | **Introduction** | The Pentium processor's floating-point unit (FPU) computes transcendental functions like sine…
Cost of internet streaming and cell phone bills
The Ultimate Guide to Gate-All-Around (GAA) - AnySilicon
Introduction to Gate-All-Around (GAA) Transistors Gate-all-around (GAA) transistors are a newly introduced type of transistor structure: the gate terminal connects with the channel on all sides. Gate-All-Around transistors are a multi-gate field effect transistors type where a…
Bundler 2.6: Enhanced Security with Built-in Checksum Verification
Protect your Ruby projects from supply chain attacks with Bundler 2.6's new checksum verification. Learn how to implement this crucial security feature today.
Linux: How to Use Cron to Schedule Regular Jobs
With Cron, you can schedule just about any type of job on Linux, such as backing up specific directories to an external drive.
Find out who’s behind any phone number with this free lookup tool - Fast Company
The free resource helps you see the name associated with any number in seconds flat.
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision
Binstack is a technique for selecting the "single most impactful" solution when there are multiple, incomparable dimensions to evaluate.
Exclusive: Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen | TechCrunch
Electra has raised $76.3 million to clean up the dirty ironmaking industry, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has developed a novel method of using
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Demand Forecasting with Darts: A Tutorial
A hands-on tutorial with Python and Darts for demand forecasting, showcasing the power of TiDE and TFT
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
Rails for everything | Literally the Void
Things we learned out about LLMs in 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
Statology's Most Popular Articles of 2024
Have a look at Statology's most popular articles of the year!
Note: Here are some of the most popular articles from Statology in 2024, along with brief summaries: 1. **5 of the Most Cited Statistical Papers of All Time** This article highlights five landmark statistical papers that have significantly influenced the field, including works by Kaplan and Meier, Cox, Bland and Altman, Duncan, and Marquardt. 2. **10 Essential Statistical Tests Explained in One…
Who Killed the Fudge King?
How I (possibly) solved a cold case on my summer vacation.
Northwestern's Tiny Football Stadium Is Making Big Money
Despite hosting games in a temporary stadium with 35,000 fewer seats, Northwestern football is bringing in more revenue with premium packages.
Note: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-p-675c9d4cdc788191a39dc496b7e18af1-commish-football/c/67755abc-2994-8008-b26b-541956eeefd1 Northwestern University has constructed a temporary on-campus football stadium, Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium, to host games during the two-year redevelopment of Ryan Field. This venue accommodates approximately 12,000 spectators, with a significant emphasis on…
10 years of the long read: a selection of great stories
From food to Freud to football, 10 lists for 10 years
Century-Scale Storage - Longreads
This deeply researched and thoughtful read by Maxwell Neely-Cohen, a fellow at the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, explores the past, present, and future of long-term data storage. “If you want to store something for 100 years, what are the best methods for…
Why UX is more important than UI
“I want to make it pop!”, but not at the expense of your customer experience. Here’s why.
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite - blag
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
Massively Speed-Up your Learning Algorithm, with Stochastic Thinning - Machine Learning Techniques
Dramatically Speed-Up your Learning Algorithm, with Stochastic Thinning. Includes use case, Python code, regression and neural network illustrations.
CMU Researchers Introduce TNNGen: An AI Framework that Automates Design of Temporal Neural Networks (TNNs) from PyTorch Software Models to…
Designing neuromorphic sensory processing units (NSPUs) based on Temporal Neural Networks (TNNs) is a highly challenging task due to the reliance on manual, labor-intensive hardware development processes. TNNs have been identified as highly promising for real-time edge AI…
How to Build a Graph RAG App
Using knowledge graphs and AI to retrieve, filter, and summarize medical journal articles
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Inside an American Rare-Earth Boomtown
Industrialists and researchers are plotting a new future for these critical materials
Instead of Being Cynical, Try Becoming Skeptical - by Jamil Zaki - Behavioral Scientist
Cynicism and skepticism are often confused for each other, but they couldn’t be more different.
US Counties Database | Simplemaps.com
Free and commercial U.S. counties databases. Includes latitude, longitude, population, largest city, zip codes, timezone, income and more. CSV, SQL and Excel format.
Meet the mad scientist of headphones, whose wild designs electrify Reddit
Philip Kaplan started experimenting with headphone design this year. Now, he’s pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for our ears.
Everything You Need to Know About Gamay
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The Gamay grape variety is synonymous with the Beaujolais region of France, but it also produces excellent red wines around the world.
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvement...
Most Read Articles of 2024 - By The Editorial Board - Behavioral Scientist
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
Top 10 Study Guides and Glossaries: 2024 Edition
Study guides and glossaries that were most popular in 2024
Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
In 2016, an EgyptAir A320 spiraled into the Mediterranean, killing 66 people. Was it an act of sabotage, or something even scarier?
Taxonomy as a service
When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out which shelf to put it on. Should the extension cords go next to the hoses? After all, they both do…
ChatGPT search vs. Google: A deep dive analysis of 62 queries
A detailed analysis of ChatGPT search and Google's performance across 62 queries, with scoring metrics and practical examples.
Each response was meticulously fact-checked and evaluated for alignment with potential user intents.
two-thirds of which were informational
Cognitive load is what matters
There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.
Rick Steves Refuses to Get Cynical About the World
The guidebook writer and television personality reflects on his cancer diagnosis, social media’s corrosive effect on tourism and the transformative power of travel.
These stunning images trace ships’ routes as they move
Publicly available data helps monitor ship traffic to avoid disruption of undersea internet cables, identify whale strikes, and study the footprint of underwater noise.
A User’s Guide to Building a Subculture—Asterisk
First, you’re going to need something to care about.
The kitty command line interface
Run the kitty terminal emulator. You can also specify the program to run inside kitty as normal arguments following the options. For example: kitty --hold sh -c “echo hello, world” For comprehensiv...
Welcome to Flask — Flask Documentation (3.1.x)
12 Days Of Xmas | Space Ghost Coast To Coast | Adult Swim
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking Mode"
Plus building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects
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How Tortillas Lost Their Magic
Most American tortillas taste like cardboard. Chefs, restaurants, and companies are trying to restore the corny glory.
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Revolutionizing Memory: The Design Scheme Behind HBM3E’s Success - EE Times
Discover how SK hynix’s switch to the advanced 6-phase RDQS scheme helped create the world’s best-performing HBM3E with enhanced capacity and reliability.
Film Technica: Our favorite movies of 2024
This year’s list features quite a bit of horror mixed in with the usual blockbuster fare—plus smaller hidden gems.
Introduction to the Class F Power Amplifier - Technical Articles
This article explores the basic principles of Class F operation and introduces the third-harmonic-peaking Class F amplifier.
LLM Research Papers: The 2024 List
A curated list of interesting LLM-related research papers from 2024, shared for those looking for something to read over the holidays.
Why AI language models choke on too much text
Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That’s not great.
This is probably why Google charges twice as much, per token, for Gemini 1.5 Pro once the context gets longer than 128,000 tokens. Generating token number 128,001 requires comparisons with all 128,000 previous tokens, making it significantly more expensive than producing the first or 10th or 100th…
In a series of papers, Princeton computer scientist Tri Dao and several collaborators have developed FlashAttention, which calculates attention in a way that minimizes the number of these slow memory operations.