The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an uncontrolled reentry.

The blackout seen today on the Iberian Peninsula has been attributed to a "rare" phenomenon known as "induced atmospheric vibration":

It says that "due to extreme temperat...

For years I’ve wanted to build a super-dense electronic-music compressor: keep only the loops and phase cues that really matter, then re-synthesise the track perfectly. Evenings and weekends, however, were never long enough to design the model, write the…

Suppose you are participating in an auction for a box. Nobody knows exactly what is in the box, but they are bidding on it for various reasons; some think they can make money, some might have sentimental reasons, and others might just be having fun. You yourself…

I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it. Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect –

I dig into the research on intrinsic motivation. Super interesting subject. Long but hopefully quite thorough.

High performance Rust stream processing engine seamlessly integrates AI capabilities, providing powerful real-time data processing and intelligent analysis. - GitHub - arkflow-rs/arkflow: High per...

In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer

We're launching the Meta AI app, our first step in building a more personal AI.

The ruling, which has yet to take effect, was ordered under India's online blocking laws.

I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself repeatedly. It works stupidly well. - PhialsBasement/Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts

A review of tens of thousands of soil samples from Earth reveals high concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in the pedosphere

Here’s a problem you might be familiar with: I keep forgetting what AEAD exactly means and why you would ever use it. Yes, I know the acronym stands for “Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data”, but does that really clarify anything? Not to me, so…

The open-source LLM combines the sequence-modeling skill of a transformer with the inferencing speed of an SSM. IBM Granite will soon adopt key Bamba features.

Here’s a look at what we announced at LlamaCon and how you can get started with our newest releases.

Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid.

I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...

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