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Age of Invention: The Second Soul, Part I

Here’s a riddle. There was a product in the seventeenth century that was universally considered a necessity as important as grain and fuel. Controlling the source of this product was one of the first priorities for many a military campaign, and sometimes even a motivation for…

Unlocking the Best Tokenization Strategies: How Greedy Inference and SaGe L

The inference method is crucial for NLP models in subword tokenization. Methods like BPE, WordPiece, and UnigramLM offer distinct mappings, but their performance differences must be better understood. Implementations like Huggingface Tokenizers often need to be clearer or limit…

Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist

After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest.

“3 Body Problem” Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic

The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s trilogy mixes heady theoretical questions with genuine spectacle and heart.

Buying Satellite Imagery of Ukraine Is Dangerously Easy

A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.

How to use URLs and links in Jekyll - Made Mistakes

How Jekyll uses URLs and how to link posts, pages, assets, and other resources together.

Guide to Marketplace Payment Processing

By Mdu Sibisi One of the biggest challenges for modern e-commerce and fintech developers is building...

The Many Lifetimes of an Old Red Bike

"Five generations of a family's love, told through a bicycle."

How Snapple Got Its Juice Back

Its number one priority: repair relations with disgruntled distributors. Then revive the funky packaging, adventurous flavors, and anything-goes attitude that first made the brand soar.

How to approach a reduce problem

Code written with reduce can be intimidating. This 2-step approach can help.

Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

The most important piece of furniture in your home is in need of assistance. How did we end up here? And how can we fix it?

Create Multiple IP Addresses to One Single Network Interface

In this article, we will understand how to create a virtual interface and assign a different range of IP addresses to a single network interface in Linux.

Midjourney now has the feature that everyone wants

Keeping characters looking the same across different scenes and styles has always been tricky. But now, with the new Midjourney

Tales From an Attic

Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives

forgotten.” “Lost Cases, Recovered Lives” ran for nearly a year and inspired a traveling exhibition

How Manipulators Use Disgust to Hijack Our Brain

Knowing how this most visceral emotion can be abused by bad actors is your best defense.

Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town

A new industrial-scale 'sand battery' has been announced for Finland, which packs 1 MW of power and a capacity of up to 100 MWh of thermal energy for use during those cold polar winters. The new battery will be about 10 times bigger than a pilot plant that’s been running since…

Accelerator Industry Model

The SemiAnalysis AI accelerator model is used to gauge historical and future accelerator production by company and type.

Survivorship Bias: The Secret Psychological Danger In Success

Explore how Survivorship Bias leads to flawed decisions by only considering successes and overlooking failures, with real-life examples and tips to avoid it."

From Here You Can Take In the Splendor of West Texas

A rustic bench in Davis Mountains State Park beckons hikers to sit for a spell.

Digital Havoc: A Reading List About Hacking

Behind the 1s and 0s, hackers are still people—and their motivations are more nuanced than you might think.

The 15 Greatest Documentaries of All Time: Explore Films by Werner Herzog,

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who recognize the phrase 'corny dialogue that would make the pope weep,' and those who don't.

DRAM Chips Perform Functionally-Complete Boolean Operations (ETH Zurich)

A new technical paper titled “Functionally-Complete Boolean Logic in Real DRAM Chips: Experimental Characterization and Analysis” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract: “Processing-using-DRAM (PuD) is an emerging paradigm that leverages the analog operational…

Unveiling the Dynamics of Generative Diffusion Models: A Machine Learning A

The recent advancements in machine learning, particularly in generative models, have been marked by the emergence of diffusion models (DMs) as powerful tools for modeling complex data distributions and generating realistic samples across various domains such as images, videos…

Speech and Language Processing

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3D Images of Over 13,000 Museum Specimens Now Free To Everyone

16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development [2024]

Ruby is a programming language that has been accepted with open arms since 1995, and thanks to its...

HBM3E And GDDR6: Memory Solutions For AI

Explore HBM3E and GDDR6 memory capabilities, including the benefits and design considerations for each

How to Survive 75 Hours Alone in the Ocean

A case study digs into the medical records of a lost diver’s incredible survival story.

Why and How to Achieve Longer Context Windows for LLMs

Language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP) over the last few years, achieving…

Generative AI Design Patterns: A Comprehensive Guide | by Vincent Koc | Feb

Reference architecture patterns and mental models for working with Large Language Models (LLM’s)

You can now train a 70b language model at home

We’re releasing an open source system, based on FSDP and QLoRA, that can train a 70b model on two 24GB GPUs.

Tiny Python Projects

Understanding and Implementing Recurrent Networks (RNNs) from Scratch in Py

Today AI is the most popular topic in various industries and it's also has different develop purpose....

Easily Train a Specialized LLM: PEFT, LoRA, QLoRA, LLaMA-Adapter, and More

Training a specialized LLM over your own data is easier than you think…

How to spot a manipulated image

Here are some clues that can help you identify if an image has been altered or faked.

A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-lon

Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy.

Hiding the ‘aha’

The most effective persuasion happens when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the table or the graph or the presentation is to create the conditions for someone to make up their own …

A Hearty Irish Bread Absolutely Anyone Can Make

This brown bread recipe, a staple of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland, is as satisfying and foolproof as they come.

Fleeing Trumpland

Many Americans are vowing to move abroad if Trump returns to the White House. And this time, they may actually follow through.

How the Seven Bridges of Königsberg Spawned New Math

Are you smarter than an 18th-century Prussian?

The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

What to add to your Netflix queue when you want to feel really hungry

Deep Understanding of Garbage Collection: Principles, Algorithms, and Optim

1. Preface Garbage Collection (GC) is an important feature of automatic memory management...

Liquid Cheat Sheet - Fabrizio Musacchio

This Cheat Sheet gives an overview of Liquid syntax commands one might encounter while developing a Jekyll website.

How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results (2023 Edi

A deep-dive into how far fewer companies than you think have taken a hold of Google's search results.

Circles And Slashes

One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it?

The Ultimate Guide to Free SVG Generators

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) stand out for their crispness and scalability, making them...

My Clients, The Liars — LessWrong

It’s not just that my clients lie to me a lot, which will only hurt them — it’s that they’re really, really bad at it. My job as a public defender pu…

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