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8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production

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.NET Support on Heroku

heroku.com
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Khronos Group adopts the Slang shading language

khronos.org

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Tip pressure might work in the moment, but customers are less likely to return

theconversation.com

Have you ever hesitated at the register, uncomfortable as an employee watched you choose a tip?...
Have you ever hesitated at the register, uncomfortable as an employee watched you choose a tip? It’s not just you. The rise of digital tipping systems – from point-of-sale devices held by employees to countertop screens that clearly display your selection – is changing the dynamics of tipping, often in ways that mak...

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Accelerated AI Inference via Dynamic Execution Methods

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Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this paper, we focus on Dynamic Execution...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this paper, we focus on Dynamic Execution techniques that optimize the computation flow based on input. This aims to identify simpler problems that can be solved using fewer resources, similar to human cognition. The techniques discussed include early exi...
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When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk

theatlantic.com

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I Was Wrong About Scrum, Again

substack.com

So, I was reading the Scrum Guide the other day, since that’s the kind of guy...
So, I was reading the Scrum Guide the other day, since that’s the kind of guy I am. I am always on the lookout for something that I can quote, that a Scrum guru can’t explain away with magical logic. I haven’t found anything yet, but I haven’t given up.First, I pointed out that sprints are problematic because they a...
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Learn Perfect Pitch in 15 years

moderndescartes.com

Originally posted 2024-11-25 Tagged: music, personal Obligatory disclaimer: all opinions are mine and not of my...
Originally posted 2024-11-25 Tagged: music, personal Obligatory disclaimer: all opinions are mine and not of my employer I learned perfect pitch as an adult. It was not easy or quick, and there were so many qualifiers that, for over a decade, I didn’t really think I “deserved” the label. But as I got older, those qu...

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Show HN: Open-sourced (road) traffic counting application

github.com
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The Art of Failure Analysis 2024

ieee.org

When your car breaks down, you take it to the mechanic. When a computer chip fails,...
When your car breaks down, you take it to the mechanic. When a computer chip fails, engineers go to the failure analysis team. It’s their job to diagnose what went wrong and work to make sure it doesn’t in the future. The International Symposium on the Physical and Failure analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) is a...

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Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

theguardian.com

With a surface hot enough to melt lead and with clouds of sulphuric acid above it,...
With a surface hot enough to melt lead and with clouds of sulphuric acid above it, it is a planet often called Earth’s “evil twin” – similar in size, yet worlds apart.Some scientists have long believed it was once much more hospitable, home to cooler temperatures and oceans of liquid water. But now researchers have ...
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Ethiopian wolves reported to feed on nectar

ox.ac.uk

The study was carried out by researchers at the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP), a partnership...
The study was carried out by researchers at the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP), a partnership between the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford, the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA), and Dinkenesh Ethiopia. They observed that some individual wolves wo...
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A better approach to gravity: how we made EGM2008 faster

elodin.systems

‍For the last month we've been hard at work adding a new feature to Elodin, an...
‍For the last month we've been hard at work adding a new feature to Elodin, an ultra-high-speed implementation of EGM2008. EGM2008 – or Earth Gravitational Model 2008 for those acronym phobic readers – a high precision model of Earth's gravitational field.. What once required significant computational resources can ...
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The Great Grocery Squeeze: federal policy change in '80s created the food desert

theatlantic.com

ideas
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The Two Big Games

overcomingbias.com

Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key...
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it. There are two games that folks in this business might play re this meeting.In the consensus game, people want to be seen has having favored the immediate winning side. Whatever decision is made by the end o...
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Direct testing of natural twister ribozymes from over a thousand organisms

oup.com
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Optimality of Gerver's Sofa

arxiv.org
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Why Not Mars (2023)

idlewords.com

1.1.2023 Why Not Mars For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for...
1.1.2023 Why Not Mars For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman Entrance to underground cavern on Pavonis Mons. HiRISE, 2011 The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytim...
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Getty Images CEO: Respecting fair use rules won't prevent AI from curing cancer

fortune.com

There is a lot of debate on whether freely training artificial intelligence (AI) models on copyrighted...
There is a lot of debate on whether freely training artificial intelligence (AI) models on copyrighted materials is permissible under the law. This debate escalates to court cases filed across varied jurisdictions and companies challenging companies that train their generative AI models by scraping copyrighted mater...
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Show HN: Akiradocs – open-source Documentation Framework with AI features

github.com
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Show HN: Flow – A dynamic task engine for building AI agents

github.com
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Tempest Anderson: Pioneer of Volcano Photography (2015)

publicdomainreview.org

What could possess a respectable Victorian surgeon from York to spend much of his life travelling...
What could possess a respectable Victorian surgeon from York to spend much of his life travelling to remote and challenging parts of the world to study volcanoes and climb mountains?For Tempest Anderson, pioneering new techniques of ophthalmic surgery and inventing photographic equipment was not enough. He decided t...
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Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table

theverge.com

Geek Club and CircuitMess have created a functional replica of one of Rick and Morty’s most...
Geek Club and CircuitMess have created a functional replica of one of Rick and Morty’s most tragic characters — the Butter Bot — with new capabilities so the bot is more than just a breakfast butler. With a camera, working treads, and AI capabilities, this Butter Bot can navigate the world, recognize your face, and ...
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