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TSMC and NVIDIA Transform Semiconductor Manufacturing With Accelerated Computing | NVIDIA Blog

TSMC is moving to production with the NVIDIA cuLitho computational lithography platform to accelerate manufacturing of advanced semiconductor chips.

$2 H100s: How the GPU Bubble Burst - by Eugene Cheah

H100s used to be $8/hr if you could get them. Now there's 7 different places sometimes selling them under $2. What happened?

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 | Hacker News

A Rodeo Doctor Fixes Much More Than Broken Bones

A fixture in bull riding events around the country, Dallas surgeon Tandy Freeman tends to much more than just concussions and broken bones.

Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global societ

Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest

There was no shortage of trees

How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library

Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.

McDonald’s Macarons

How U.S. fast food took over the world — and then went local

Using LLMs for Automated Data Categorization in Google Sheets

This post unveils a well-kept secret unknown to many: using externally hosted Large Language Models (LLMs) in Google Sheets to perform NLP tasks on text

By default, the script uses the "facebook/bart-large-mnli", a BART model trained for multi-class text classification

paste the token in your script, replacing the ‘ <YOUR HUGGINGFACE API KEY> ‘ part with your token, save the script, and go back to Google Sheets to start playing!

Just Listen to This Extremely Remote Canadian Mechanic Talk About His Work Truck

After this walkaround, you'll love the rig, too.

SearchGPT: What you need to know about OpenAI’s search engine

Unpack the key features and marketing insights of SearchGPT, OpenAI’s innovative search tool and its potential to rival Google’s dominance.

The Long Road to Fiber Optics

Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our world.

Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them

We gathered the most surprising anecdotes from seasoned founders about when things clicked into place.

10 GitHub Repositories to Master Computer Vision

The GitHub repository includes up-to-date learning resources, research papers, guides, popular tools, tutorials, projects, and datasets.

Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved.

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

Injera Is the Soul of Ethiopian Cuisine

Injera takes days to prepare, but this quick recipe streamlines the process.

AI & ML Projects with Python

In this article, I'll take you through a list of guided projects to master AI & ML with Python. AI & ML Projects with Python.

From Mauritius to Sudan You Told Us Where To Look. Here Are the Results

Satellite imagery is increasingly used by open source researchers to analyse conflict,natural disasters, mining activities and even construction work. With the help of Planet Labs PBC and Umbra Space, Bellingcat can take a snapshot of anywhere in the world by “tasking” their…

Vulcan Bridge in Vulcan West Virginia

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.

Market Basket Analysis Using High Utility Itemset Mining

Finding high-value patterns in transactions

The Nazi of Oak Park

It was a stunning revelation: A respected high school custodian had been a concentration camp guard. This excerpt of a new book examines how the disclosure of a dark secret in the early ’80s divided a suburb.

Lemony Shrimp and Bean Stew

With minimal prep and a quick cook time, this shrimp stew feels elegant for such an easy weeknight meal You can also take the dish in a number of directions: Substitute the shrimp with an equal amount of flaky white fish or even seared scallops, or stretch the dish into a meal…

The Hospitality Solution in Your Business

A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.

Decoding the jargon behind Google’s antitrust ad tech trial: a glossary for the confused

From industry terms like "header bidding" to "AdX" to "DSPs" to internal Google terms, such as "Jedi Blue," there's a lot to wrap your head around.

ABCs of Power Amplifier Classes: Class A

Design, operation and characteristics of the most linear amplifier class of all.

How a Gang of Harmonica Geeks Saved the Soul of the Blues Harp | Collectors

Harmonica players will suck and harmonica players will blow, but mastering the harmonica is tougher than its diminutive size and simple mechanics suggest....

Understanding Haptic Technology and the Use of Piezoelectric Actuators

Haptic feedback systems using piezo-based actuators are important for a variety of applications, especially automotive. Learn the challenges and the solutions to be considered for this technology.

Was doomed US submarine caught by a monster whirlpool in the South China Sea?

Newly released data from a giant whirlpool near the Paracel Islands could give fresh clues about a major US Navy incident.

ankane/neighbor

Nearest neighbor search for Rails.

Top 10 Most Excellent Gems to Use in Any Ruby Web Application

It can be a challenge when you’re not using Rails to find gems which integrate well. Here are some solid options you can use in any Ruby web application.

NirDiamant/Prompt_Engineering

This repository offers a comprehensive collection of tutorials and implementations for Prompt Engineering techniques, ranging from fundamental concepts to advanced strategies. It serves as an essen...

The inside story of Roku’s TV program

How a scrappy startup upended the U.S. TV market.

How McDonald’s Became China’s New Favorite Wedding Venue

Young Chinese are increasingly opting for simple, affordable wedding ceremonies. That’s leading many to the golden arches.

Hybrid Memory Designed to Cut AI Energy Use

Researchers developing dense, speedy hybrid gain cell memory recently got a boost from CHIPS Act funding

An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 in which a social engineering attack ta

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 where attackers used a phone-based social engineering attack on a user of Gemini's crypto exchange

Gradio Documentation

Documentation, tutorials and guides for the Gradio ecosystem..

How Apple Watch sleep apnea detection works and why it matters | Empirical Health

80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.

Emma Carey: The skydiver who survived a 14000-foot fall

In 2013, Emma Carey went skydiving for the first time and experienced an absolute nightmare. This is why she refuses to let the accident define her.

A Guide to the Muscles You Forget to Exercise

Add “tendon day” to your gym routine.

Game on Paper

The Practical Guide to Empathy Maps: 10-Minute User Personas

A step-by-step process to creating an empathy map as a lean user persona with examples from leading design tool - UXPin.

Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, testing intelligence operations there before replicating them across Europe.

Troy Aikman ‘never lost at anything.’ He’s just now starting to enjoy it.

'God's Quarterback' was the archetype American success story, but the triumphs everyone saw masked the inner turmoil no one knew about.

A Word Please: Coffee-shop prompt stirs ChatGPT to brew up bland copy

A comparison between a report written by a human and one composed by AI reveals the weaknesses of the latter when it comes to journalism.

Building a RAG Chatbot GUI with the ChatGPT API and PyMuPDF

The Artifex blog covers the latest news and updates regarding Ghostscript, MuPDF, and SmartOffice. Subjects cover PDF and Postscript, open source, office productivity, new releases, and upcoming events.

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RAPIDS cuDF Unified Memory Accelerates pandas up to 30x on Large Datasets

NVIDIA has released RAPIDS cuDF unified memory and text data processing features that help data scientists continue to use pandas when working with larger and text-heavy datasets in demanding…

The Portuguese shepherds who love wolves

Whilst Europe grapples with how to deal with growing wolf populations, this mountainous region of Portugal has coexisted with the predators for centuries.

Why CTOs are choosing Hotwire and Ruby on Rails

A conversation with the CTO and Co-founder of Clara, a recent thoughtbot client, about the strategy behind their decision to build their startup product with Rails and Hotwire.