How Cornhole Went Pro

It might be America’s most-played sport. Now it’s quietly becoming a TV success story.

Lessons Learned from Scaling to Multi-Terabyte Datasets

This post is meant to guide you through some of the lessons I’ve learned while working with multi-terabyte datasets. The lessons shared are focused on what someone may face as the size of the…

The Best Strategy for Learning May Depend on What You’re Trying to Remember

Different approaches can support varied forms of memory

What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centr

Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes?

Satellites Spotting Ships

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...

Understanding Dimensional Resonance in High-Frequency Magnetic Cores

In this article, we explore the effect of dimensional resonance on the magnetic field distribution in high-frequency ferrite cores.

Push an Empty Commit in Git

Yes, you can totally push an empty commit in Git if you really want to. Here's how to do that.

Single Vs. Multi-Patterning Advancements For EUV

EUV patterning has come a long way in the past five years, but old challenges resurface with high-NA EUV.

The return of pneumatic tubes

Pneumatic tubes were supposed to revolutionize the world but have fallen by the wayside. Except in hospitals.

Counts Outlier Detector: Interpretable Outlier Detection

An interpretable outlier detector based on multi-dimensional histograms.

Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash

Bash scripting, a cornerstone of Unix and Linux system administration, offers powerful tools to automate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and handle complex operations. For those already comfortable with basic scripting, diving into advanced techniques can unlock new…

Silicon Valley’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Master

“We have people stealing all over the world.” A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale.

About Nantian Electronics : IC chips & IGBT modules Disctributor

Nantian Electronics Co Limited provide complete and cost effective sourcing solution to OEMs, CEMs, distributors, the needs of manufacturers and other companies.

Key Metrics for Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs)

Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) is a challenging problem in language modeling, as real-world problems are complex and variable. Conventional benchmarks frequently fail to fully represent LLMs' all-encompassing performance. A recent LinkedIn post has emphasized a number…

Massive Expansion Of North American Battery Manufacturing Capacity Ahead

It should be enough to build at least 12 million all-electric vehicles annually.

Carabiner Collection

ST remains largest silicon carbide power device maker, with 32.6% market sh

onsemi rises from fourth to second; top five players comprise 91.9% of revenue

US chipmaker Onsemi to invest $2bn in Czech Republic silicon carbide facili

Largest one-off direct foreign investment in the country

Firecrawl: A Powerful Web Scraping Tool for Turning Websites into Large Lan

In the rapidly advancing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), effective use of web data can lead to unique applications and insights. A recent tweet has brought attention to Firecrawl, a potent tool in this field created by the Mendable AI team. Firecrawl is a state-of-the-art…

Why China’s Small Merchants Are Checking Out of Mega Shopping Fests

Frustrated by high return rates and dwindling profits, small merchants are questioning the long-term viability of discount-driven shopping festivals. Some are even opting out and returning to more traditional business models.

Infographic: The Next Characters to Enter the Public Domain

Let's reproduce GPT-2 (124M)

We reproduce the GPT-2 (124M) from scratch. This video covers the whole process: First we build the GPT-2 network, then we optimize its training to be really fast, then we set up the training run following the GPT-2 and GPT-3 paper and their hyperparameters, then we hit run, and…

5 Deployment Strategies: The Pros and Cons

You don't get seamless deployments entirely without cost, but some techniques bring lots of benefits with little additional complexity.

The Secret Code of Pickup Basketball

The game presents a social problem: How does one find comity among a group of jostling strangers?

Name a song that instantly raises a person's "cool factor" while listening

1.1K votes, 1.7K comments. Music is a powerful force, to say the least. It can influence our mood, and through our moods it can lead to us be…

How to use an open source LLM model locally and remotely

Run an open source language model in your local machine and remotely.

Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again

Tubi’s free TV strategy puts it between free social video and paid streaming.

Can You Replace Google Search With Reddit? I Tried It for a Week

Frustrated by their Google searches, people are funneling their queries to a site that isn’t a search engine at all.

Recommendation Algorithms You Should Know

In this article, I'll take you through the recommendation algorithms you should know and how to implement them using Python.

Resources for Taxonomy Creation and Content Management

Resources for knowledge management, content management and taxonomy creation on the Web.

TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook

TDK claims insane energy density in solid state battery breakthrough

Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.

nicanorflavier/spf-dkim-dmarc-simplified: Email security is a key part of i

Email security is a key part of internet communication. But what are SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and how do they work? This guide will explain it all in simple terms to make these concepts clearer. - nic...

On being laid off & unplanned entrepreneurship - Deep South Ventures

〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Most folks dream of being entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my…

DRAM: an industry in full flight

Generative AI and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) fuel DRAM market growth. OUTLINE The HBM market has the potential to grow to US$14 billion in 2024. Yole Group expects HBM revenue growth to continue with a CAGR23-29 of ~38%, reaching about US$37.7 billion in 2029. 4F2 cell designs…

Thread: A Jupyter Notebook that Combines the Experience of OpenAI’s Code In

The digital age demands for automation and efficiency in the domain of software and applications. Automating repetitive coding tasks and reducing debugging time frees up programmers' time for more strategic work. This can be especially beneficial for businesses and organizations…

umount Command in Linux

Learn some practical examples of using umount command to unmount the mounted disk partitions in Linux command line.

Welch’s t-Test: The Reliable Way to Compare 2 Population Means with Unequal

Discover why Welch’s t-Test is the go-to method for accurate statistical comparison, even when variances differ.

ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

A collection of 2,311 blogs about every topic

An Introduction to Using Logic Gates in LTspice

This article explains how to successfully integrate logic gates into an LTspice simulation.

Erewhon’s Secrets

Japanese utopians. Corporate glow-ups. $400 smoothies. The strange history of the world’s most cultish grocery store.

H-E-B Forever

Nobody in America loves anything as much as Texans love H-E-B

The Bizarre Story of Piggly Wiggly, the First Self-Service Grocery Store

What's in a name?

Florida’s favorite grocery store seeks to be uncomplicated in a complicated

Could you build a company like Publix today?

The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under? A lot -- and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that.

The Utopian Promises and Novelty Cheese of a Discount Grocery Store

The future of grocery shopping might just be a 100-year-old grocery chain with a cult following.

Card Sorting: Pushing Users Beyond Terminology Matches

Labels in a card sorting study must be neutral to prevent keyword matching and encourage careful, conceptual groupings from users.

Useful and Overlooked Skills

On his way to be sworn in as the most powerful man in the world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to…

Best Music and Albums of All Time

See how well critics are rating the Best Music and Albums of All Time

‘A good knife is not only about the steel’

Founded in 2022, the knife-making process at Isamitsu Knives differs from industrial manufacturers in small but significant ways.