Marvel Fusion breaks ground on $150M laser facility in Colorado

The ATLAS facility will use three ultra-high intensity lasers to initiate the same reaction that powers the Sun and stars.

Five Decisions Illustrate How Section 230 Is Fading Fast

Professor Eric Goldman continues to be the best at tracking any and all developments regarding internet regulations. He recently covered a series of cases in which the contours of Section 230&#8217…

NVIDIA To Ship 150K-200K Blackwell GB200 AI Servers In Q4 2024 Alone & 500-550K Units In Q1 2025, Microsoft Being The Leading Buyer

NVIDIA's Blackwell AI servers to witness a massive shipment volume in Q4 2024, with Microsoft being the most "aggressive" acquirer.

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine

Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

6 Essential Leadership Skills — and How to Develop Them

The way we work has changed — and so has leadership. Leaders are under new pressures to perform at higher levels and adapt quickly to changing demands. In this article, the author shares advice from three leadership experts and outlines the six skills leaders need to succeed: 1)…

How to manage people's behavior- Fast Company

These two principles are equally powerful and critical to manage behavior, but the order matters.

PyTorch 2.5 Released: Advancing Machine Learning Efficiency and Scalability

The PyTorch community has continuously been at the forefront of advancing machine learning frameworks to meet the growing needs of researchers, data scientists, and AI engineers worldwide. With the latest PyTorch 2.5 release, the team aims to address several challenges faced by…

Step-by-Step Guide To Using WebAssembly for Faster Web Apps

Boost web app performance and security by integrating WebAssembly with these practical steps.

The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire - Hagerty Media

John Cena's not a small guy, but he—and Mattel's movie—have some big shoes to fill if they're telling the origin story of Matchbox.

The Surprising Psychology That Makes Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte Irresistible

I have a confession to make - I’m a huge Starbucks fan. I know in some of your eyes that might make me basic or tacky or “very American,” but it’s the truth. I grew up watching Friends and Frasier and both shows made the idea of going to a “coffee shop” seem like an

Death as a Child: The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children

First described in Texas in the mid-90s, what are these disturbing figures—and what do they want?

Nvidia just dropped a new AI model that crushes OpenAI’s GPT-4—no big launch, just big results

Nvidia quietly launched a groundbreaking AI model that surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5, signaling a major shift in the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence.

One Laser To Pump Up AI Interconnect Bandwidth By 10X

According to rumors, Nvidia is not expected to deliver optical interconnects for its GPU memory-lashing NVLink protocol until the “Rubin Ultra” GPU

RNG, PRNG, CSPRNG

A pseudorandom number generator may have good statistical properties but be insecure. But a physical RNG with good statistical properties is probably secure.

Cargo airships are happening

Last year, I published an article on airships. The article was the fruit of a few years’ exploration of the industry. I spoke to multiple airship manufacturers under NDA. I traded ideas with other cargo airship enthusiasts.

Introduction to QSPICE for LTspice Users, Part 1 - Technical Articles

This article, the first in a four-part series on moving from LTspice to QSPICE, introduces an LED blinker circuit that we’ll simulate with both programs.

REST Still Outshines GraphQL for Many API Use Cases

Even now in 2024, there are still fundamental issues with GraphQL.

10 GitHub Repositories for Advanced Machine Learning Projects

Where can you find projects dealing with advanced ML topics? GitHub is a perfect source with its many repositories. I’ve selected ten to talk about in this article.

Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM): How to Avoid Biased Channel Estimates

Learn which variables you should and should not take into account in your model.

Hidden Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music Evolved

Songs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the world

[REPOST] Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"

How Midland’s “Drinkin’ Problem” Became a Texas Standard in English and Spanish

The trio’s 2017 debut single is frequently covered by artists representing a variety of regional Mexican music genres.

How Google made the ad tech industry revolve around itself

The final days of the trial approach.

ben-n93/SQL-tips-and-tricks: SQL tips and tricks

SQL tips and tricks.

rerankers: A Lightweight Python Library to Unify Ranking Methods – Answer.AI

Re-ranking is an integral component of many retrieval pipelines; however, there exist numerous approaches to it, all with different implementation methods. To mitigate this, we propose rerankers, a Python library which provides a simple, easy-to-use interface to all commonly…

The best R packages for data visualization

A list of the most powerful R packages to create stunning graphs.

How Powerful Is Political Charm?

Kamala Harris has energized Democrats with her personality, but charm in politics may be more limited and volatile than we think.

Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

The creator of Arc on browser competition, the future of the web, and where AI search fits in.

Types of Auctions [Reference Guide with Definitions]

There are many types of auctions. Learn the various auction types and when each one is used based on the lot. You may be surprised that...

The Long Strange History of Teflon the Indestructible Product Nothing See

Chemists accidentally discovered the material in 1938, and since then it has been used for everything from helping to create the first atomic bomb to keeping your eggs from sticking to your frying pan

"We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase

How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly - Learn How To Learn

Do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the 'loading-bar' style (more on that below) Don't just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you…

dpo-from-scratch.ipynb

Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step - rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch

When This Supply-Chain Essential Goes Missing, It’s Time to Bring in the ‘Pallet Detectives’

Millions of the wooden pallets go missing every month, creating headaches for suppliers and hiccups in the supply chain. Finding them takes some serious shoe leather.

Retailers Locked Up Their Products—and Broke Shopping in America

CVS, Target and other chains have barricaded everything from toiletries to cleaning supplies. It’s backfired in almost every way.

What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)

What to think about ranked choice voting?

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one key segment: Game theory can help explain how ranked choice voting changes the behavior of candidates, as well as the elites who support them. Consider a ranked choice election that has five or six candidates. To win…

sqlite-vec v0.1.0 Released: Portable Vector Database Extension for SQLite w

Alex Garcia announced the much-anticipated release of sqlite-vec v0.1.0. This new SQLite extension, written entirely in C, introduces a powerful vector search capability to the SQLite database system. Released under the MIT/Apache-2.0 dual license, sqlite-vec aims to be a…

Ten Wild Examples of Llama 3.1 Use Cases

Meta's recent release of Llama 3.1 has stirred excitement in the AI community, offering an array of remarkable applications. This groundbreaking model, particularly the 405B variant, stands out for its superior performance and open-source accessibility, outpacing even top-tier…

Can We Create a Pattern Language for Behavioral Design? - by Piyush Tantia

Psychologies, especially as represented in lists of biases, point out problems. Developing a pattern language would point us to solutions.

The Birth of Cool

Being cool is hard. Staying cool is harder. It’s an elusive quality, in part because it’s an elusive word with layers of nuanced meaning that peel off...

How a Rare Disorder Makes People See Monsters

A mysterious neurological condition makes faces look grotesque—and sheds new light on the inner workings of the brain.

The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell

Lee Maxwell owns a Guinness-world-record-holding washing machine collection. When his wife of 71 years died, he was left to ponder what his life would look like.

How to Eat a Tire in a Year, by David Sedaris | The New Yorker

Walking and talking with my friend Dawn.

Book Review: You Talking to Me? How Human Language Evolved

Prehistory professor Steven Mithen’s “The Language Puzzle” explores the mysteries of when and how we began to speak.

Report: Intel Meteor Lake In Short Supply Due to Yield Issues, Intel Runnin

StubHub vs. Ticketmaster vs. SeatGeek: What’s the Difference?

Tickets are almost entirely bought and sold (and resold) online. What is the difference between Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek and other brokers?

Surveying the Landscape of Smartphone Processors

There are many chip partitioning and placement tradeoffs when comparing top-tier smartphone processor designs.

MacArthur Maze Collapse and Reconstruction

After a crucial section of a California freeway collapsed, this formidable construction boss pulled off one of the fastest, riskiest, most high-stakes reconstructions in U.S. history.

List of U.S. stadiums by capacity

The following is a list of stadiums in the United States. They are ranked by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally accommodate. All U.S. stadiums with a current capacity of 10,000 or more are included in the list. The majority of these…