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First 9front release of 2024 is DO NOT INSTALL, its most helpful codename yet

theregister.com
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A Year on Ozempic Taught Me We're Thinking About Obesity All Wrong

nytimes.com

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Show HN: Chat with Steve Jobs via his recorded videos

jelli.io
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Ask HN: What is the state of GPT use in non-tech industries?

ycombinator.com
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Study reveals what carbon damage would cost if corps paid for their emissions

apnews.com

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Despite international hires, TikTok is Chinese at its core

restofworld.org

When Chinese software engineer Ben joined TikTok’s San Jose office in 2023, he felt as if...
When Chinese software engineer Ben joined TikTok’s San Jose office in 2023, he felt as if he had entered a workplace back in his home country. All but a handful in his 100-strong team were Chinese nationals. Employees spoke in Mandarin and addressed each other as tong xue — an endearing term widely used in Chinese t...

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Judi Harvest: Creating a Honey Garden in Venice

worldsensorium.com

By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! American artist Judi Harvest has deep roots...
By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! American artist Judi Harvest has deep roots in Miami, where she cultivated a profound connection to waterway ecosystems and the diverse creatures that inhabit them, including waterbug insects, also known as aquatic macroinvertebrates. Captivated by these diminutive ...
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Show HN: We built a powerful and free AI research assistant

modularmind.app
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Show HN: Fire-ninja-bot a telegram bot fight censorship

github.com
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AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine, months after admitting rare side effect

telegraph.co.uk

Lawyers for claimants in the High Court case argue that the drug caused vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia...
Lawyers for claimants in the High Court case argue that the drug caused vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) – a subset of TTS – and that it was not as safe as individuals were entitled to expect. Astrazeneca has always insisted that “patient safety is our highest priority”.The company has s...

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Temporal Fuzzing I: Memory Models (2021)

reitzen.com
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AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do

scientificamerican.com
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Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed shortly before launch

phys.org

by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo with Issam Ahmed in Washington NASA's Vehicle Assembly building (L) and...
by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo with Issam Ahmed in Washington NASA's Vehicle Assembly building (L) and a screen showing Boeing, Crew Flight Test and Starliner logos are seen after the Starliner crew flight test was scrubbed. The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spaceship was dramatically called off just tw...

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Oil Co. Contaminated a Family Farm. Courts and Regulators Let Them Walk Away

propublica.org
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Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"

core77.com
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Scientists synthesize diamond under moderate conditions with liquid metal

phys.org

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Ruby Science by Thoughtbot

thoughtbot.com
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Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs

nytimes.com

U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When...
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they’...

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Magic Cap

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For "cap" as a reference to magic mushrooms, see Psychedelic mushroom. Magic Cap Magic Cap (short...
For "cap" as a reference to magic mushrooms, see Psychedelic mushroom. Magic Cap Magic Cap (short for Magic Communicating Applications Platform) is a discontinued object-oriented operating system for PDAs developed by General Magic. Tony Fadell was a contributor to the platform,[1] and Darin Adler was an architect.[...
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Cracking Soils Could Accelerate Climate Change

eos.org

There’s perhaps no more universal image of drought than the crisscross of cracks in parched soil....
There’s perhaps no more universal image of drought than the crisscross of cracks in parched soil. Soils contract as they dry, rifting the ground—which can allow carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to leak out from below. Now, researchers have proposed that the deeper, more frequent droughts predicted under cli...
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'Tungsten wall' leads to nuclear fusion breakthrough

qz.com

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List of Hypothetical Technologies

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Technology that could exist in the future Hypothetical technologies are technologies that do not exist yet,...
Technology that could exist in the future Hypothetical technologies are technologies that do not exist yet, but that could exist in the future.[1] They are distinct from emerging technologies, which have achieved some developmental success. Emerging technologies as of 2018 include 3-D metal printing and artificial e...
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Transforming LLMs into parallel decoders boosts inference speed by up to 3.5x

hao-ai-lab.github.io

TL;DR: LLMs have been traditionally regarded as sequential decoders, decoding one token after another. In this...
TL;DR: LLMs have been traditionally regarded as sequential decoders, decoding one token after another. In this blog, we show pretrained LLMs can be easily taught to operate as efficient parallel decoders. We introduce Consistency Large Language Models (CLLMs), a new family of parallel decoders capable of reducing in...
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2DGS: 2D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fields

surfsplatting.github.io
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