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Pre-training a 15B parameter language model over the internet

nousresearch.com
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Fathom Analytics has been acquired

usefathom.com

news Jack Ellis · Dec 2, 2024The day has finally come. Fathom Analytics, a company we've...
news Jack Ellis · Dec 2, 2024The day has finally come. Fathom Analytics, a company we've been running since 2019, has been acquired. We will reveal why we sold, who acquired us, and Fathom's future.Surely you're joking, Mr Ellis?For those of you who have been following us over the years, especially on social media, ...
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Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust

github.com
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Smaller Satellite Images

marksblogg.com

In 2009, Skybox Imaging was founded. They built and launched two satellites before being acquired by...
In 2009, Skybox Imaging was founded. They built and launched two satellites before being acquired by Google in 2014. Google went on to launch another five satellites before selling the firm to Planet Labs in 2017. Planet Labs is a 13-year-old, San Francisco-based satellite manufacturer and constellation operator. Th...
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Bury me on the moon, preferably on the far side

scientificamerican.com

I want to be buried on the moon.Why? I am one of Apollo’s Children, part of...
I want to be buried on the moon.Why? I am one of Apollo’s Children, part of the generation that grew up watching as NASA’s Apollo astronauts made the giant leap for all humankind with their epochal lunar footfalls. I’ve spent most of my life working on this new incredible phase of human history, our breakout into sp...
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Foams Made Out of Felt

tanyakhovanova.com

A foam is a finite 2-dimensional CW-complex with extra properties. This one opening sentence is already...
A foam is a finite 2-dimensional CW-complex with extra properties. This one opening sentence is already more advanced than any of my usual blog posts. Let me define a finite 2-dimensional CW-complex in layman’s terms. To construct such a CW-complex, we can start with a bunch of discrete points. This will be the 0-di...
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The Sperry Rand Corporation

abortretry.fail

This is the final entry in a four part series. You may be interested in reading...
This is the final entry in a four part series. You may be interested in reading about The ENIAC, which led to The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, which was then purchased by Remington-Rand.Sperry Rand was formed through the merger of Sperry Corporation and Remington-Rand on the 30th of June in 1955. These two h...
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Show HN: Unreal Cinematic Battle Simulator

fab.com
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Every Board Game Rulebook Is Awful [pdf]

google.com
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Poop: a performance optimizer observation platform

github.com
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From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive

explosion.ai

PDFs are ubiquitous in industry and daily life. Paper is scanned, documents are sent and received...
PDFs are ubiquitous in industry and daily life. Paper is scanned, documents are sent and received as PDF, and they’re often kept as the archival copy. Unfortunately, processing PDFs is hard. In this blog post, I’ll present a new modular workflow for converting PDFs and similar documents to structured data and show h...
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Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired

wired.com
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Show HN: Glyph3D – A 3D text visualizer for macOS and iOS / iPadOS

github.com
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World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image

worldlabs.ai
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Evidence of the use of silk by Bronze Age civilization

nature.com
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The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise

jgeekstudies.org

Luca Tonietti1–3 & Guillermo Climent Gargallo4 1Department of Science and Technology, University Parthenope, Naples, Italy. 2International...
Luca Tonietti1–3 & Guillermo Climent Gargallo4 1Department of Science and Technology, University Parthenope, Naples, Italy. 2International PhD Programme/UNESCO Chair “Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development”, Naples, Italy. 3INAF-OAC, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy. 4Department of ...
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The Beautiful Math of Bloom Filters

nyadgar.com

By Noam Yadgar at November 13, 2024 #algorithms #math #system-design #probability #calculus #bigdata Probabilistic functions can...
By Noam Yadgar at November 13, 2024 #algorithms #math #system-design #probability #calculus #bigdata Probabilistic functions can model many algorithms and procedures. They can help us optimize procedures to produce the best results. Experienced software engineers know that at some point, almost any software will rea...
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Carbon dioxide capture from open air using covalent organic frameworks

nature.com
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The Timeless Way of Software [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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The Rock VX Gas Canister Build (2022)

therpf.com

HI there - I'm Will and I've been lurking on the site long enough that I...
HI there - I'm Will and I've been lurking on the site long enough that I felt I should finally post one of my own builds. My apologies up front if I neglect any standard forum posting conventions. I just completed my VX canister prop from "The Rock" and I wanted to share some photos and info. First I want to give a ...
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KlongPy: High-Performance Array Programming in Python

github.com
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Kenya and "The Decline of the Greatest Coffee" (2021)

christopherferan.com
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The First Geared CVT and It Will Blow Your Mind [video]

youtube.com

autos & vehicles
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Dolphin Progress Release 2412

dolphin-emu.org

Dolphin 2412 is here and we've got the details for what's new in the latest release....
Dolphin 2412 is here and we've got the details for what's new in the latest release. The biggest thing to note is that there's a lot of polishing to help make playing games a little more pleasant. Several key fixes to Dolphin's HLE audio helps bring a few more games toward audio perfection, and adjustments to Dolphi...
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