🔰If CRDTs are new to you, here are some introductory links.
 - An interactive intro to CRDTs
 - An introduction to state-based CRDTs
 - CRDTs for non-academics
 - CRDT: The Hard Parts
 - Readings in CRDTs
 - crdt.tech

What are the trade-offs between different…

Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools.

Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down.

Plane manufacturer Boeing earlier Monday said it sent instructions to airlines to conduct the inspections of the Max 9s in their fleets.

‘Как пропатчить KDE2 под FreeBSD?’ or ‘How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?’ is a phrase largely confined to Russian and East European Internet culture.

AMD is launching Ryzen 8000G desktop APU series on January 31st AMD is officially introducing its long-awaited update to Ryzen APU series.  The AM5 socket is set to receive an update with the introduction of the new Ryzen CPUs, marking the debut of the first…

In the largest survey of its kind, 2,778 researchers who had published in top-tier artificial intelligence (AI) venues gave predictions on the pace of AI progress and the nature and impacts of...

Videogame software provider Unity Software will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, the company said in a regulatory filing and internal company memo on Monday.

DataFrames for the new era

How asynchronous file IO in java and scala works. On Window there is true async support, but on Linux, the AsynchronousFileChannel merely shifts a blocking IO call into a separate thread pool. Additionally, we look into the effect of OS write buffers.

Ceiling-mounted WiFi 7 AP with 6 spatial streams and 6 GHz support for interference-free WiFi in demanding, large-scale environments.

This paper presents Find+Replace transformers, a family of multi-transformer architectures that can provably do things no single transformer can, and which outperforms GPT-4 on several challenging...

Marco just joined Crunchy Data and he reflects on his career in distributed systems in this post. He provides an overview of several options for approaching distributed Postgres workloads and the pros and cons of each approach.

Resources for tensor network algorithms, theory, and software

A new study asked thousands to evaluate the accuracy of news articles — both real and fake — by doing some research online. But for many, heading to Google led them farther from the truth, not closer.

No. Not anymore. Because we have the data, if we are trading secondaries, people will always worry that we are using the data, even if we…

We introduce Mixtral 8x7B, a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) language model. Mixtral has the same architecture as Mistral 7B, with the difference that each layer is composed of 8 feedforward...

I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall. It is one of the most common struggles with this career path and can be difficult to shake off.

Stuck City is a place any creative…

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones