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Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail
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Lesswrong
Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail — LessWrong
The other day I discussed how high monitoring costs can explain the emergence of “aristocratic” systems of governance: …
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X X^t can be faster
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arXiv.org
$XX^{t}$ Can Be Faster
We present RXTX, a new algorithm for computing the product of matrix by its transpose $XX^{t}$ for $X\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$. RXTX uses $5\%$ fewer multiplications and $5\%$ fewer operations...
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Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95
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NY Times
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned him a shout-out from Richard Nixon.
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Rolling Highway
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Rolling highway
Process of shipping loaded trucks on railway cars
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Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python
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GitHub - pgjones/sql-tstring: SQL-tString allows for f-string like construction of sql queries
SQL-tString allows for f-string like construction of sql queries - GitHub - pgjones/sql-tstring: SQL-tString allows for f-string like construction of sql queries
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MIT asks arXiv to take down preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
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Thoughts on Thinking
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Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
Thoughts on thinking
I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process...
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Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3× longer contexts on Apple Silicon
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GitHub - dipampaul17/KVSplit: Run larger LLMs with longer contexts on Apple Silicon by using differentiated precision for KV cache…
Run larger LLMs with longer contexts on Apple Silicon by using differentiated precision for KV cache quantization. KVSplit enables 8-bit keys & 4-bit values, reducing memory by 59% with &am...
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Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R
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GitHub
GitHub - A2-ai/rv
Contribute to A2-ai/rv development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Show HN: CSV GB+ by Data.olllo – Open and Process CSVs Locally
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Microsoft Store - Download apps, games & more for your Windows PC
CSV GB+ by Data.olllo - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
Handle Massive CSV Files with Speed and Simplicity — No Coding Needed.
CSV GB+ is a powerful, offline data tool designed to open, process, and export very large CSV files—up to billions of rows—with ease. With a clean, no-code interface, it's perfect for…
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ClojureScript forks Google Closure Library to guarantee backward compatibility
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Moody’s strips US of triple-A credit rating
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Moody’s strips US of top-notch triple-A credit rating
Agency warns of strains caused by rising government debt and a widening budget deficit
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Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained
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Google Cloud Blog
Techniques for improving text-to-SQL | Google Cloud Blog
Learn about text-to-SQL techniques like context building and table retrieval, LLM-as-a-judge, and LLM prompting and post-processing.
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Tower Defense: Cache Control
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Jasonthorsness
Tower Defense: Cache Control
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Returning to My Roots in Hardware
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Crimpy
Returning to my roots in hardware
Creating a truly full-stack CV
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The Collapse of GPT
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Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby
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Radan Skorić’s website
Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby
“It’s not that hard to build a fully functioning, code-editing agent.” Thorsten Ball
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Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)
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GitHub - browser-use/workflow-use:
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Create and run workflows (RPA 2.0)
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Create and run workflows (RPA 2.0). Contribute to browser-use/workflow-use development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
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London Review of Books
David Thomson · Cool Tricking: Terrence Malick melts away
Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival...
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Rustls Server-Side Performance
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Prossimo
Rustls Server-Side Performance
In past years, the Rustls project has been happy to receive substantial investments from the ISRG. One of our goals has been to improve performance without compromising on safety. We last posted about our performance improvements in October of 2024, and we're…
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