Horses bled for antivenom, crabs drained for endotoxin tests, and silkworms boiled for silk. Science can now replace these practices with synthetic alternatives — but we need to find ways to scale them up.
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
JupyterLab 4.3.0 and Notebook 7.3.0 have been released! These new minor releases include many enhancements and bug fixes.
A recent, alleged Baltic Sea sabotage highlights the system’s fragility
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Even a storied program like Florida State is susceptible to the volatile landscape of college football and the sport's new-age war chests.
The cables at the heart of the lightspeed, globe-spanning internet run across the grimy, perilous, inaccessible deeps of the sea, in places no one ever sees or visits – until the cables break.
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Kapa.ai turns your knowledge base into a reliable and production-ready LLM-powered AI assistant that answers technical questions instantly. Trusted by 100+ startups and enterprises incl. OpenAI, Docker, Mapbox, Mixpanel and NextJS.
Matrix algebra for a data scientist
The long read: Canonisation has long been a way for the Catholic church to shape its image. The Vatican is preparing to anoint its first millennial saint, but how does it decide who is worthy?
An accident of lighting uncovers Jewish, European, and Islamic origins.
A new technical paper titled “Hardware Security Failure Scenarios: Potential Hardware Weaknesses” was published by NIST. Abstract “Hardware is often assumed to be robust from a security perspective. However, chips are both created with software and contain complex encodings…
The manipulation of mechanical strain in materials, also known as strain engineering, has allowed engineers to advance electronics over the past decades, for instance enhancing the mobility of charge ...
From bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker, deploy web apps anywhere with zero downtime.
Great thought and effort go into creating restaurant menus – and there are some very powerful psychological tricks employed to make you choose.
After nearly two decades, Reddit is breaking out into the mainstream....
Onboarding can be a well-documented, up-to-date, repeatable process that helps new hires become productive quickly without having to ask so many questions.
A brief numerical and graphical check on a 3Blue1Brown video.
A loop buffer sits at a CPU's frontend, where it holds a small number of previously fetched instructions.
The calculators in this guide follow a natural progression, starting with basic probabilities and z-scores, moving through hypothesis testing tools, and concluding with specialized distributions.
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Joining the ASML Lego Collection - the TWINSCAN EXE:5000. The latest addition to you ASML Lego collection has arrived. Rick Lenssen from D&E (designer of the Lego ASML Skyline and the Lego TWINSCAN NXE:3400C) has delivered another masterpiece in technology, once again made…
Extensive research has indicated the benefits of showing gratitude to those around you, including your colleagues or employees. However, a new study suggests that the timing of these expressions can make a big difference. Through two experiments and an analysis of a top…
The jq command provides a consistent way to manipulate JSON data without leaving the command line. Learn how it works by tinkering in a jq playground.
LWN: The long-awaited release of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 3.0 is on the way, marking the first major update since version 2.10 was released in April 2018. It now features a GTK 3 user interface and GIMP 3.0 introduces significant changes to the core platform and…
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.
Hip-hop was once a subculture, but by now it's long since been one of the unquestionably dominant forms of popular music — not just in America, and not just among young people.
This article covers essential Linux commands every ML engineer should know, with explanations for beginners and enough detail for experienced users.
No one in my family wanted to talk about Harold’s life as a contract killer for the Mob. Then one day he called me.
In today’s world, you’ve probably heard the term “Machine Learning” more than once. It’s a big topic, and if you’re new to it, all the technical words might feel confusing. Let’s start with the basics and make it easy to understand. Machine Learning, a subset of Artificial…
The advent of LLMs has propelled advancements in AI for decades. One such advanced application of LLMs is Agents, which replicate human reasoning remarkably. An agent is a system that can perform complicated tasks by following a reasoning process similar to humans: think…
I will explain how to identify hard drive bottlenecks on Linux using various tools and commands, and what to look for when troubleshooting disk-related issues.
PyTorch has emerged as a top choice for researchers and developers due to its relative ease of use and continuing improvement in performance.
The cron module in Ansible lets you run and manage the cron jobs on remote systems.
Discovery is challenging; it can be hard to know what to research, how to do discovery as a team, and how to get buy-in. Follow these 7 tips for smoother discovery efforts.
Notes from the Latent Space paper club. Follow along or start your own! - eugeneyan/llm-paper-notes
Album cover design and jazz photography on the Blue Note Records. Notes and pictures from the Birka Jazz Archive
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Musings on systems, information, learning, and optimization.
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues, was the first African American superstar, an artist that mingled regal dignity with sensuality. We’ll sample her recorded legacy, talk with critics and hear memories of her contemporaries from the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Why you should care about even small amounts of inductance.
Though it looks like magic, it’s still just programming. This book will help you really understand the Rails source code.
Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way: either you have them, or you don’t. In practice, most companies’ network effects are much more complex, falling along a spectrum of…
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