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That IACR Preprint

scottaaronson.blog
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NASA Veteran's Propellantless Propulsion Drive Produced Enough Thrust

thedebrief.org

Dr. Charles Buhler, a NASA engineer and the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies, has revealed that...
Dr. Charles Buhler, a NASA engineer and the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies, has revealed that his company’s propellantless propulsion drive, which appears to defy the known laws of physics, has produced enough thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity. A veteran of such storied programs as NASA’s Space Shut...
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Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a video game

nature.com
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Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light

futurism.com
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Android features I'm envy of as an iPhone user

ghed.in
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Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

stuff.co.za

In October 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature...
In October 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The decision sent out shockwaves: for the first time, a musician had received the most prestigiou...

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Git Bisect-Find

kevincox.ca
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Brown Danube: How Belgrade's sewers taint Europe's famous river

phys.org

Around a third of Belgrade has no connection to drainage systems and instead relies on the...
Around a third of Belgrade has no connection to drainage systems and instead relies on the septic tanks that the trucks empty straight into the rivers Just down the road from Belgrade's historic city centre, gates open for trucks to pass to the banks of the Danube, where they dump raw sewage into Europe's venerated ...

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Waterfront home price down by 75% as erosion concern washes value away

thecooldown.com
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America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

economist.com
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Some Volumes Were Slow and We Figured Out Why

fly.io

Fly Volumes are fast. That sounds like a brag, but the truth is, we made tradeoffs...
Fly Volumes are fast. That sounds like a brag, but the truth is, we made tradeoffs to end up with fast Volumes. We back them with a pool of locally-attached NVMe drives, which means they’re pinned to specific physical servers, and while we do back them up, you generally want to be doing something at an upper layer t...
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Bitcoin Block 840000

mempool.space
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Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor

ollama.com
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Chinese Half-Marathon Champion Disqualified–Along with Runners Who Let Him Win

wsj.com
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Aaron Swartz's site has gone offline

aaronsw.com
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The Problem with Counterfeit People

theatlantic.com

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Think Twice, Code Once

substack.com

When I review code from more junior developers or even tenured developers, I find a tendency...
When I review code from more junior developers or even tenured developers, I find a tendency to either overengineer or overcomplicate solutions. When I ask them to explain the rationale behind their implementation, I get an answer that feels like this was their first thought, and they implemented it without analysin...
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LLaMA 3 70B Llamafiles

huggingface.co

This repository contains executable weights (which we call llamafiles) that run on Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD,...
This repository contains executable weights (which we call llamafiles) that run on Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD for AMD64 and ARM64. Model creator: Meta Original model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct Quickstart Running the following on a desktop OS will launch a tab in your web browser w...
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Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]

youtube.com

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Household Size and the Housing Stock

substack.com

A common claim from supply truthers is that homes per capita is at all time highs,...
A common claim from supply truthers is that homes per capita is at all time highs, so there can’t be a supply crisis. For some number of reasons, a lot of people are just resistant to the supply story. To someone seeking anti-supply talking points, it seems like a really good point. I have written a little bit befor...
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Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction

alexharri.com
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'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue

thehill.com
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Dynamic Typography: Bringing Text to Life via Video Diffusion Prior

animate-your-word.github.io

animate your word dynamic typography text animation text-to-video video diffusion
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Erdos Problems Collection

erdosproblems.com
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