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Show HN: A Directory of Free, Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software

alternateoss.com
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The "Bird and Baby" grows up: inside the new Eagle and Child

oxfordclarion.uk
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Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT algorithm)

wikipedia.org

Genetic algorithm for making artificial neural networks NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) is a genetic algorithm...
Genetic algorithm for making artificial neural networks NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) is a genetic algorithm (GA) for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks (a neuroevolution technique) developed by Kenneth Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen in 2002 while at The University of Texas at Aus...
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Reprompt (YC W24) Is Hiring an Engineer to Build Location Agents

ycombinator.com
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Veo and Imagen 3: Announcing new video and image generation models on Vertex AI

google.com

Sr. Director of Product ManagementDiscover the latest in AI, Security, Workspace, App Dev, & more.Register Generative...
Sr. Director of Product ManagementDiscover the latest in AI, Security, Workspace, App Dev, & more.Register Generative AI is leading to real business growth and transformation. Among enterprise companies with gen AI in production, 86% report an increase in revenue1, with an estimated 6% growth. That’s why Google is i...
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Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls

ificl.github.io

diffusion model generative model video-to-audio generation
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You're Breathtaking [Godot #100000]

github.com
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Approximating Mathematical Constants Using Minecraft

arxiv.org
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How to Grow Professional Relationships

tej.as

Over my career, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know some of the world’s most...
Over my career, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know some of the world’s most incredible builders. This same career has also seen quite a significant amount of gatekeeping: various (m|b)illionaire boys clubs and cliques have made it quite clear that they’d prefer to keep their world small and exclusive, and that ...
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Linux TCP So_reuseport: Usage and Implementation

rubdos.be
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On Bullshit

princeton.edu

Philosophy Buy This One of the most prominent features of our world is that there is...
Philosophy Buy This One of the most prominent features of our world is that there is so much bullshit. Yet we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, how it’s distinct from lying, what functions it serves, and what it means. In his acclaimed bestseller On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt, who was one of the world’...
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Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution

globalinitiative.net

There has been a groundbreaking shift in the global drug trade, pioneered in Russia and now...
There has been a groundbreaking shift in the global drug trade, pioneered in Russia and now spreading globally. Unlike traditional drug trafficking models, this system leverages darknet markets and cryptocurrency for anonymous transactions, allowing buyers to retrieve drugs from hidden physical locations, or “dead d...
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Dark Mode in CSS Guide

css-tricks.com

dark mode
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Pinecone integrates AI inferencing with vector database

blocksandfiles.com

GenAI inferencing can now be run directly from the Pinecone vector database to improve retrieval-augmented generation...
GenAI inferencing can now be run directly from the Pinecone vector database to improve retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Pinecone supplies a vector embedding database to be used by AI language models when building responses to chatbot user requests. Vector embeddings are symbolic representations of multiple dime...
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Getting Started with Category Theory

ryanbrewer.dev

July 29, 2024Category theory is a fascinating and unreasonably powerful tool for thinking about computation, transformation,...
July 29, 2024Category theory is a fascinating and unreasonably powerful tool for thinking about computation, transformation, and relationships between things in the world. That makes it useful for mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers alike. I've struggled through learning a decent chunk of the theor...
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Voyagers Ready to Go Dark

nautil.us

Sign up for the free Nautilus newsletter: science and culture for people who love beautiful writing....
Sign up for the free Nautilus newsletter: science and culture for people who love beautiful writing. When the two Voyager probes launched into space in 1977, they were headed to uncharted territory. It was the first time humanity had sent robot spacecraft to study up close the four giant outer planets of our solar s...
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Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

ft.com
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OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

openttd.org
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Show HN: Open-Source Colab Notebooks to Implement Advanced RAG Techniques

github.com
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Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching

lucvandonkersgoed.com

As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of https://aws-news.com‘s busiest period...
As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of https://aws-news.com‘s busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very effective caching. This resulted in significantly reduced backend load and a much faster frontend. This article focuses on CDN caching – st...
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No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4

infected.systems
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Show HN: Kurdle – Wordle Meets Japanese Kanji

ycombinator.com
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A Particle Physics Course for High-School Students

cern.ch

The development of this particle physics course for high-school students was based on a thorough review...
The development of this particle physics course for high-school students was based on a thorough review of educational theory, empirical research, and years of experience in particle physics education. Below, we provide insights into the rationale behind specific content decisions and how they can support student le...
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EmacsConf 2024

emacsconf.org
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