Meta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including Gemini - The Verge

The models have some pretty good general knowledge.

The 'shopping cart theory' supposedly tests if you are a good person or not

While the morality aspect is complicated, our shopping carts really do say something about who we are.

Exclusive | Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals

Staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called ‘Big River.’ The mission: to scoop up information on pricing, logistics and other business practices.

Dallas high school football coaches on best recruiters, impact of OU, Texas

How has Texas A&M's approach changed under Mike Elko? Will Texas' move to the SEC help the Longhorns with in-state prospects?

Insatiable: A Life Without Eating

When my Crohn's disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.

Lawyer reveals why shoppers should avoid self-checkout kiosks at stores and

Criminal defense lawyer Carrie Jernigan says that using self-checkouts can be risky and might land you in jail.

The Adventures of ACTION ITEM, Professional Superhero!

The Adventures of Action Item, Professional Superhero - Official Homepage

ChillsDB: an open-source database of chills-inducing stimuli

ChillsDB is the first database of validated audiovisual stimuli eliciting aesthetic chills (goosebumps, psychogenic shivers) in the US population.

How to Do the World's Greatest Stretch

Dr. Aaron Horschig, DPT, of Squat University explains the intricacies of this widely-renowned mobility move.

Index—The Stacks project

an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic geometry

Custom GPTs: How to create a GPT for your SaaS in less than 20 minutes

Making your custom GPTs is just one of the ways to leverage your content strategy and use ChatGPT...

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation.

Biden has brought the ban hammer down on US export of AI chips to China

Datacenter GPUs and some consumer cards now exceed performance limits

Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips made for China

Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon

anthropics/anthropic-cookbook: A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing

A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude. - anthropics/anthropic-cookbook

The lines between streaming and cable continue to blur | Ars Technica

Disney+ to offer 24/7 channels to play Star Wars content, commercials.

module Psych - Documentation for Ruby 3.4

wireviz/WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses.

Easily document cables and wiring harnesses.

A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers | MDTURP

This is a visual guide (scroll story) to Vision Transformers (ViTs), a class of deep learning models that have achieved state-of-the-art performance on image classification tasks.

[2404.09818] Error Detection and Correction Codes for Safe In-Memory Comput

In-Memory Computing (IMC) introduces a new paradigm of computation that offers high efficiency in terms of latency and power consumption for AI accelerators. However, the non-idealities and...

Mastering the Linux htop Command

In the world of Linux system management, monitoring your system's resources is as crucial as having a...

Why we practice magic | Princeton University Press

Not many academic philosophers discuss magic, however, five centuries ago, prominent Renaissance philosophers wrote extensive treatises on the topic.

johang/btfs

A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE.

25 Best Event Ticketing Stores Compared | In-Depth Review 2024

Live Nation stock sinks because a DOJ antitrust lawsuit might be coming

The Ticketmaster parent company was the worst performer in the S&P 500 at midday

This Restaurant Offers Free Wine if You Put Away Your Phone

Al Condominio, a restaurant that opened last month in Verona, Italy, would like for its patrons to fully enjoy the social aspects of public dining. This requires putting away phones and, hopefully, talking to other human beings who are physically present.The Guardian reports…

Y2Z/monolith

⬛️ CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file - Y2Z/monolith

What is the Blemishing Effect? Why Imperfections Aren’t Always Bad

What is the Blemishing Effect? This psychological principle says that when we show a little negative information alongside the positive, we can make something seem more attractive. Lots of brands use this effect to make themselves more lovable. Just take Pringles who’s 2023…

Mermaid

Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.

The Dictator’s Handbook: 3 Steps to Being a Dictator

If you are looking for The Dictator's Handbook, this post provides you a summary, overview and criticism of one of the best works of political analysis

The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene - Summary & Notes

Detailed notes and summary for The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene. Another in-depth book with timeless principles to better understand and navigate life.

Startling differences between humans and jukeboxes

OR: The secret geniuses of Wisconsin

I accidentally built a meme search engine | Harper Reed's Blog

I built a magical meme search engine using siglip/CLIP and vector encoding images. It was a fun way to learn about this powerful technology. I'm sharing the code so you can build your own and discover forgotten gems in your photo library. Let's unleash the power of AI on our…

On Himalayan Hillsides Grows Japan’s Cold, Hard Cash - The New York Times

A shrub in impoverished Nepal now supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Asia’s most sophisticated financial system.

Pricing | Heroku

Heroku offers simple, flexible pricing to meet the needs of every app and every organization. Add data stores, cloud services, support, and more.

The Comiclopedia: An Online Archive of 14,000 Comic Artists, From Stan Lee 

Nobody interested in comics can pass through Amsterdam without visiting Lambiek. Having opened in 1968 as the third comic-book shop in human history, it now survives as the oldest one still in existence.

Deep Learning Architectures From CNN, RNN, GAN, and Transformers To Encoder

Deep learning architectures have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence, offering innovative solutions for complex problems across various domains, including computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and generative models. This article…

This clever new tool will help you buy fewer clothes

Eileen Fisher has vowed to reduce overconsumption. Now, the brand is making good on its promise.

The five types of college football programs you meet in the transfer portal

In this evolving portal era, programs take different approaches to attacking the opportunity that arises during each transfer window.

The Secret at the Heart of Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart that doesn't seem to get talked about.

Peter Attia’s Quest to Live Long and Prosper

The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.

The Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy: “After This, Therefore Because of Th

How to Stop Losing 17,500 Kidneys - by Santi Ruiz

"Someone left a human liver at the wrong hospital’s cargo bay in 90 degree heat, and no one noticed for an hour and a half."

Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & In

If you know more than a few millennials, you probably know someone who reveres Calvin and Hobbes as a sacred work of art.

Story #1 - Embezzlers are Nice People | Stimmel Law

We spend a lot of time suing embezzlers. All over the world. Week in and week out. Big embezzlers, small embezzlers, smart embezzlers and very smart embezzlers… That’s right, no dumb embezzlers because almost all the embezzlers we encounter are smart. Some are very smart. Some…

Blinking is more than meets the eye

Eye blinks aren't just a mechanism to keep our eyes moist. Research finds that blinking plays a key role in processing visual information.

Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer

Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first

Tips for LLM Pretraining and Evaluating Reward Models

Discussing AI Research Papers in March 2024

Using window functions for advanced data analysis

Window functions are an advanced feature of SQL that provides powerful tools for detailed data analysis and manipulation without grouping data into single output rows, which is common in aggregate functions.

The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool

From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.