Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Future of Life Institute
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children https://scratch.mit.edu/about
Postgres as a graph database https://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts/postgres-is-a-graph-database/
Dylanpaulus
Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had
PostgreSQL (Postgres), is a powerful relational database that can store a wide range of data types and data structures.
When it comes to storing graph data structures we might reach for a database marketed for that use case like Neo4J or Dgraph. Hold your…
When it comes to storing graph data structures we might reach for a database marketed for that use case like Neo4J or Dgraph. Hold your…
Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm
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Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
Twitter aims to deliver you the best of what’s happening in the world right now. This blog is an introduction to how the algorithm selects Tweets for your timeline.
Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613
GitHub
Make loading weights 10-100x faster by jart · Pull Request #613 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
This is a breaking change that's going to give us three benefits:
Your inference commands should load 100x faster
You may be able to safely load models 2x larger
You can run many concurren...
Your inference commands should load 100x faster
You may be able to safely load models 2x larger
You can run many concurren...
Alexa, what is my wifi password? https://dragon863.github.io/blog/alexa.html
Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3
Cell
Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative
Plants emit species- and stress-specific airborne sounds that can be detected in acoustic
chambers and greenhouses.
chambers and greenhouses.
Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems (2022) https://www.exhypothesi.com/clocks-and-causality/
Exhypothesi
Clocks and Causality - Ordering Events in Distributed Systems
In distributed systems, logical clocks play a key role in the ordering of system events. What are the various logical clock designs, and how do they help with event ordering? This article answers these questions.
Hexatrek: The long distance thru hike in France https://en.hexatrek.com
Hexatrek
Hexatrek : The long distance thru hike in France
A long distance european hiking trail of 3034 km. The longest trek in France in the heart of the most beautiful national parks.
Thru-hike the french mountains and hike through Vosges, Jura, Alps, Ecrins, Vercors, Ardèche, Cevennes, Languedoc and the Pyrenees.
Thru-hike the french mountains and hike through Vosges, Jura, Alps, Ecrins, Vercors, Ardèche, Cevennes, Languedoc and the Pyrenees.
Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/ask-wirecutter-dumb-tvs/
Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World
Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me?
Unfortunately, it’s really hard to buy a non-smart TV these days, but we have some suggestions if privacy is a concern.
The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition https://www.routledge.com/The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook-The-Art-of-Automatic-Memory-Management/Jones-Hosking-Moss/p/book/9781032218038
Routledge & CRC Press
The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management
Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, captured the state of the field in 2012.…
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station https://floor796.com/#t4r0,512,512
Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-foundry-arm-announce-multigeneration-collaboration-leading-edge-soc-design.html
Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport? https://hellgatenyc.com/why-is-airport-turkey-sandwich-expensive
Hell Gate
Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at the Airport? - Hell Gate
We filed a public records request, but the Port Authority is treating airport pricing like a state secret.