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New NIH director defends grant cuts as part of shift to support MAHA vision

science.org
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Libro: a command-line tool to track your books

github.com
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Quantum-assured magnetic navigation with higher positioning accuracy than GPS

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Modern navigation systems rely critically on GNSS, which...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Modern navigation systems rely critically on GNSS, which in many cases is unavailable or unreliable (e.g. due to jamming or spoofing). For this reason there is great interest in augmenting backup navigation systems such as inertial navigation systems (INS) w...
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SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

serenityos.org
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Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)

hey.earth

doom duckdb sql wasm
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Scientists confirm vitamin B1 hypothesis from 1958

ucr.edu

Chemists have confirmed a 67-year-old theory about vitamin B1 by stabilizing a reactive molecule in water...
Chemists have confirmed a 67-year-old theory about vitamin B1 by stabilizing a reactive molecule in water — a feat long thought impossible. The discovery not only solves a biochemical mystery, but also opens the door to greener, more efficient ways of making pharmaceuticals. UCR's Vincent Lavallo, left, and Aaron Gr...
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Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech

arstechnica.com

Neuroscientists are striving to give a voice to people unable to speak in a fast-advancing quest...
Neuroscientists are striving to give a voice to people unable to speak in a fast-advancing quest to harness brainwaves to restore or enhance physical abilities. Researchers at universities across California and companies, such as New York-based Precision Neuroscience, are among those making headway toward generating...
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A Real-Time Algorithm for Non-Convex Powered Descent Guidance [pdf]

washington.edu
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Does RL Incentivize Reasoning in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

limit-of-rlvr.github.io

We conducted experiments across three representative domains to evaluate the effect of RLVR on the reasoning...
We conducted experiments across three representative domains to evaluate the effect of RLVR on the reasoning ability boundaries of base and RLVR models. Math In the math experiments, we evaluate multiple LLM families (Qwen-2.5 and LLaMA-3.1) and their RL-trained variants on benchmarks like GSM8K, MATH500, and AIME24...

aime deepseek-r1 grpo ppo qwen
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GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Sr engineers passionate about education

breezy.hr

GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions. Trusted by 1,300+ colleges, universities,...
GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions. Trusted by 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools, our mission is to help advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education. We received a seed investment from Y Combinator in 2015 and ha...
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Swift 6.2: A first look at how it's changing Concurrency

avanderlee.com
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An AI doctoral candidate in California says they had their student visa revoked

techcrunch.com

An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their...
An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk. Speaking to TechCrunch, the student, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, said they were notified via their college’s international student cent...
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Is SaaS a good business model for drug‑discovery companies?

liorz.github.io
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Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

readly.ink
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Handheld detector for all types of ionizing radiation improves radiation safety

phys.org
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Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study

cnn.com

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life,...
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Sunday is 420 day, when lovers of marijuana get together to celebrate their fondness for weed. Yet research shows that regular users of marijuana ...
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Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym

cekrem.github.io

Recently, Shopify’s CEO Tobi Lütke shared his thoughts on AI’s role in coding, stating that “reflexive...
Recently, Shopify’s CEO Tobi Lütke shared his thoughts on AI’s role in coding, stating that “reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify.” The gist of his message was that AI is revolutionizing how we work, and everybody should jump on board this train or risk being left behind. I’m paraphrasing a bi...

ai career clean architecture coding craft
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RISC-V RVA23 Profile: A major milestone

riscv.org
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Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

krebsonsecurity.com

A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk‘s...
A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB...
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FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here

freedos.org

April 5, 2025 A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Developers have been adding...
April 5, 2025 A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Developers have been adding features to FreeDOS, fixing bugs, making translations, updating programs, and writing documentation. Many thanks to all the cool developers, testers, contributors, testers, documentation writers, translators .. and everyone else w...
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Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?

oup.com
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LHC 2025 First Collisions

cern.ch
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The Population Bomb (1968)

wikipedia.org

1968 book predicting worldwide famine The Population Bomb The Population Bomb is a 1968 book co-authored...
1968 book predicting worldwide famine The Population Bomb The Population Bomb is a 1968 book co-authored by former Stanford University professor Paul R. Ehrlich and former Stanford senior researcher in conservation biology Anne H. Ehrlich.[1][2] From the opening page, it predicted worldwide famines due to overpopula...
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Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video]

ccc.de

2025 eh22 eh22-deu eh22-eng k2 talk
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