James Earl Jones, the distinguished and prolific actor in films, TV and theater known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in "Star Wars," has died.

We introduce Transfusion, a recipe for training a multi-modal model over discrete and continuous data. Transfusion combines the language modeling loss function (next token prediction) with...

When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...

Posted on Thursday 5 Sep 2024. 1,133 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

“They had a singular piece of evidence that I had taken something, and it was wrong.” 

We explain how we built blazingly fast spellcheck in Rust using BKTrees, Redis
queues, and Clickhouse in this blog.

Yes, Goto 10 is ostensibly an Atari newsletter, but I have a lot of latitude with that.

Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking…

Reactive Data Board & Visual Flow Platform. Contribute to ryrobes/rvbbit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ad tech monopoly trial may hurt Google more than DOJ’s search case, experts say.

CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting - dbcli/litecli

Introducing Harrison.rad.1, the latest frontier in radiology-specific foundational models.

Two become one.

Taki Udon said he'll be listing the first batch of his DE-10 Nano clone boards for sale today at 8PM NYC time.  The second batch will release Friday September 6th, at 8AM NYC time.  Each batch will have 1000 units available for sale.  The prices are $100…

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Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page

This is the 5th time Mozilla opted me into something like this w/o asking - existing about:config changes didn't apply; they add new ones (15 results for 'sponsor')

Slowly driving their only successful…