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WordNet

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Computational lexicon of English WordNet WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that...
Computational lexicon of English WordNet WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and ext...
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Bay Area restaurants react to new Calif. law with anger, shock

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Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns

engadget.com

Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code...
Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator, which the Zelda maker previously described as enabling “piracy at a colossal scale.” The sweeping takedown comes two months after Yuzu’s creators quickly settled a lawsuit wit...

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Insects and other animals have consciousness

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In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of...
In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in activity that could only be described as play. Given small wooden balls, the bees pushed them around and rotated them....
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A Clock in the Forest

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In his studio on the east coast of Vancouver Island, the master clockmaker Phil Abernethy is...
In his studio on the east coast of Vancouver Island, the master clockmaker Phil Abernethy is crafting a timepiece that will be calibrated in a manner that no horologist has ever attempted. It won’t show the minutes and hours of an ordinary human day. Instead, his clock will display time as experienced by some of the...
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The Phantom Menace: still terrible after all these years?

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Can it really be that there are Star Wars fans who see George Lucas’s Episode I...
Can it really be that there are Star Wars fans who see George Lucas’s Episode I – The Phantom Menace, once considered the emblem of everything that went wrong with the long-running space saga, as a bona fide classic ripe for rehabilitation 25 years on? As the much-derided 1999 film returns to cinemas this weekend, t...
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Even the Most-Envied Retirement Plan Is Falling Short

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Electric 10000 ton container ship has begun service with over 50MWh in batteries

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Chinese state-owned company COSCO Shipping has launched what it calls the “world’s largest” river-to-sea electric container...
Chinese state-owned company COSCO Shipping has launched what it calls the “world’s largest” river-to-sea electric container ship. The Green Water 01 is a 10,000-ton+ fully electric vessel that sets a new benchmark in sustainability in the marine logistics industry. China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, or COSCO for ...
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Japan ministry asks Line, Yahoo operator to shed Naver influence

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SVB agrees to sell venture capital arm for $340M

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People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide

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Stanford PhD student Metta Nicholson observes a gas burner in a home where scientists measured air...
Stanford PhD student Metta Nicholson observes a gas burner in a home where scientists measured air pollution as part of their data collection in California, Texas, Colorado, New York, and Washington, D.C. (Image credit: Rob Jackson, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability) Households with gas or propane stoves regul...

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My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop (2022)

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Enlarge / Benj Edwards' computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. Thirty years ago last week—on...
Enlarge / Benj Edwards' computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad's Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2400 baud modem. The Cave BBS soon grew into a bustling 24-hour system with over 1,000 users. ...
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I Never Stopped Learning from Daniel Dennett

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They say, never meet your heroes. Daniel Dennett, who was exceptional in so many ways, and...
They say, never meet your heroes. Daniel Dennett, who was exceptional in so many ways, and who died last month, was for me an exception to this rule, too.Like so many, I was first inspired by Dennett on reading one of his many bestsellers: Consciousness Explained. It was 1991 and I was a fresh undergraduate with a p...
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Rustc_codegen_GCC: Progress Report #32

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03 May 2024 rustc_codegen_gcc is a GCC ahead-of-time codegen for rustc, meaning that it can be...
03 May 2024 rustc_codegen_gcc is a GCC ahead-of-time codegen for rustc, meaning that it can be loaded by the existing rustc frontend, but benefits from GCC by having more architectures supported and having access to GCC’s optimizations. It is not to be confused with gccrs, which is a GCC frontend for Rust. Here’s wh...
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I joined landlord groups to persuade them to be better people to their tenants

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Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers

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inblogtagsdate5/3/2024I like open source. I like the idea of gifts to the commons. I like the...
inblogtagsdate5/3/2024I like open source. I like the idea of gifts to the commons. I like the idealism, this naïve belief that if we all do our part, we can make beautiful things together. Unfortunately, I’ve spent the past few months committed to profiling the open source community for this blog. Now, I know that I...
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How long should you sit vs. stand? New research reveals the perfect mix

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I hate online Lorem Ipsum Generator so I made my own

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The Feasibility of Implementing Large-Scale Transformers on Multi-FPGA Platforms

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View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:FPGAs are rarely mentioned when discussing the implementation of large machine learning...
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:FPGAs are rarely mentioned when discussing the implementation of large machine learning applications, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), in the data center. There has been much evidence showing that single FPGAs can be competitive with GPUs in performance for some computation...
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Map Machine

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Sony and Apollo send letter expressing interest in $26B Paramount buyout

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Apollo and Sony have sent a letter to the Paramount board expressing formal interest in doing...
Apollo and Sony have sent a letter to the Paramount board expressing formal interest in doing a $26 billion takeover of the company.A Skydance consortium could hear from a Paramount special committee on a recommendation of next steps as soon as Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter.Some Paramount in...

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Drink Me: (Ab)Using a LLM to Compress Text

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Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes

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Agricultural IoT System Sends Power Through the Soil

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.How...
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.How do you supply power to agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that are scattered all over the landscape?Power is a major obstacle on the path to real-world smart agriculture. Even the most energy-efficient devi...

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