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zaikunzhang
4 hours ago
Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name popularly given to a broad spectrum of computer tools designed to perform increasingly complex cognitive tasks, including many that used to solely be...
3 DAYS AGO
TOSH
Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed
21 HOURS AGO
PJMLP
C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
2 DAYS AGO
LUU
Hardware Image Compression
14 HOURS AGO
PHILADELPHIA
Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
19 HOURS AGO
WALTERBELL
Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle
5 DAYS AGO
RMASON
How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball
19 HOURS AGO
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The road signs that teach travellers about France
39 MINUTES AGO
BRAJESHWAR
Hackers now exploit critical F5 BIG-IP flaw in attacks, patch now
A DAY AGO
LUCIDLYNX
Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
20 HOURS AGO
VELMU
More on Version Control
3 DAYS AGO
KYE
About the Atmosphere
20 HOURS AGO
VELMU
More on Version Control
A DAY AGO
ZDW
The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history
DiffTheEnder
2 hours ago
Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass
A kea parrot in New Zealand learned to drag traffic cones onto a highway so cars would stop and humans would feed it. That sent me down a rabbit hole on how we actually measure bird intelligence.
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klaussilveira
5 days ago
Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)
Where I've spent way too much time creating benchmarks of C++ hashmaps...
cokernel_hacker
11 hours ago
VHDL's Crown Jewel
How VHDL preserves determinism In this post, I would like to talk about VHDL’s crown jewel: how it preserves determinism in a concurrent language. Here is a figure of how it works:...
MrAlex94
3 days ago
15 Years of Forking
Today marks 15 years of Waterfox!...
isaacfrond
4 days ago
In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?
The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize everything in the computer program Lean....
sebzuddas
8 hours ago
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models
Why the HJB is Bellman's equation in continuous time, why continuous time matters, and how to solve the resulting control problem with neural policy iteration....
iajiboye
4 days ago
The coming PLG to SLG apocalypse
AI native companies no longer have years to bridge the gap between self-serve adoption and enterprise readiness. While the security and platform tooling stack has matured quickly, the commer...
mlysk
8 hours ago
I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
TL;DR I use an Excalidraw, wrap the elements of interest with a frame, name it with export_ prefix, my forked excalidraw extension automatically generates SVGs for light and dark mode....
https://blog.lysk.tech/excalidraw-frame-export/
bookofjoe
5 hours ago
How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage
Our hardest problems — from housing shortages to climate retreat to democratic trust and technology — aren’t failures of politics; they’re failures of incentives....
PaulHoule
4 days ago
The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar
A revolution was televised in 1972. It cost beer drinkers 25¢ a play. After work, thirsty folks rambled into Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, CA to knock back frothy, cool mugs and test thei...
hydrolox
5 days ago
Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code
Douglas Lenat's AM (Automated Mathematician) from SAIL archives circa 1977 - white-flame/am...
emersonmacro
2 days ago
Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
Contribute to chenglou/pretext development by creating an account on GitHub....
henk53
5 days ago
Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish
foojay is the place for all OpenJDK Update Release Information. Learn More....
giis
9 hours ago
15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die
The server webminal.org runs on a single CentOS Linux box with 8GB RAM. That’s it. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no auto-scaling. One server since 2011. It has survived: A datacenter fi...
fi-le
3 days ago
Interview: Nobonoko, Master of the Minimal Sequencer
fi-le.net, the Fiefdom of Files...
rapnie
2 hours ago
Euro-Office Wants to Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office
Euro-Office is based on OnlyOffice, with collaborative editing support....