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DeepSeek's smallpond: Bringing Distributed Computing to DuckDB

substack.com

DeepSeek has made a lot of noise lately. Their R1 model, released in January 2025, outperformed...
DeepSeek has made a lot of noise lately. Their R1 model, released in January 2025, outperformed competitors like OpenAI’s O1 at launch. But what truly set it apart was its highly efficient infrastructure—dramatically reducing costs while maintaining top-tier performance.Now, they're coming for data engineers. DeepSe...
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A float walks into a gradual type system

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Ohio One Construction Timeline Update

intel.com

On Feb. 28, 2025, Naga Chandrasekaran, executive vice president, chief global operations officer and general manager...
On Feb. 28, 2025, Naga Chandrasekaran, executive vice president, chief global operations officer and general manager of Intel Foundry Manufacturing, sent a message to Intel employees in Ohio updating them on the latest planned construction completion dates for Ohio One Mod 1 and Mod 2 that are under construction in ...
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Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?

ycombinator.com
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Visualizing process trees with marimo and anywidget

cauchy.org

BY Kyrre Wahl Kongsgård AND Anja Olsen This work was inspired by a project at DNB’s...
BY Kyrre Wahl Kongsgård AND Anja Olsen This work was inspired by a project at DNB’s Cyber Defense Center where we have been exploring the use of visualizations and data apps to help us do incident response more efficiently. The process tree visualization presented here re-envisions those data apps within the noteboo...

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The Cocaine Files

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Global sales of combustion engine cars peaked

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Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

restoredcdc.org
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Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)

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Bring Silent Videos to Life Sounds(Open-Source)

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VT220 Font Emulation in Browser

janiczek.cz
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Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID

ericgoldman.org

This opinion is a routine ruling over TOS formation and whether disputes must go to arbitration....
This opinion is a routine ruling over TOS formation and whether disputes must go to arbitration. However, before I dig into that question, I need to note the case’s chilling implications. * * * This case involves the Adult Friend Finder service (AFF), which age-authenticates its users. To do so, AFF required users t...
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A New AI Worry: Many Young Coders No Longer Know How Their Code Works

inc.com
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Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads

tigrisdata.com

A nomadic server hunting down wild GPUs in order to save money on its cloud computing...
A nomadic server hunting down wild GPUs in order to save money on its cloud computing bill. Image generated with Flux [dev] from Black Forest Labs on fal.ai. Taco Bell is a miracle of food preparation. They manage to have a menu of dozens of items that all boil down to permutations of 8 basic items: meat, cheese, be...

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The Nabataeans Are Coming

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The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022)

tmm.cx

The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option In this installment: some strange things I discovered when...
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option In this installment: some strange things I discovered when purchasing a FreeDOS laptop from Hewlett Packard. I suspect that the audience for this will be somewhat limited but I had fun exploring this. Perhaps you, dear reader, will find a chuckle in here too. Some backgr...
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Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video]

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Repairable Flatpack Toaster

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Urban Dead is shutting down

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Ronald Read – Philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant

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American philanthropist This article is about the philanthropist. For other uses, see Ronald Read. Ronald James...
American philanthropist This article is about the philanthropist. For other uses, see Ronald Read. Ronald James Read (October 23, 1921 – June 2, 2014) was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant. Read grew up in Dummerston, Vermont, in an impoverished farming household. He walked or ...
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TSMC will reportedly invest $100B to expand US chip fab buildouts

arstechnica.com

Currently, TSMC only builds its most advanced chips in Taiwan. But when the most advanced US...
Currently, TSMC only builds its most advanced chips in Taiwan. But when the most advanced US fabs are operational, they'll be prepared to manufacture "tens of millions of leading-edge chips" to "power products like 5G/6G smartphones, autonomous vehicles, and AI datacenter servers," the Commerce Department said in 20...
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PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc

chemistryworld.com

The mystery of why farmers had started falling ill in Johnson County, Texas and what killed...
The mystery of why farmers had started falling ill in Johnson County, Texas and what killed the fish in their ponds and livestock on their ranches may have been solved. The culprit is claimed to be a fertiliser contaminated with dangerous levels of polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that was spread...
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Looking Back at Speculative Decoding

research.google

Speculative decoding has proven to be an effective technique for faster and cheaper inference from LLMs...
Speculative decoding has proven to be an effective technique for faster and cheaper inference from LLMs without compromising quality. It has also proven to be an effective paradigm for a range of optimization techniques. Large language models (LLMs) are at the center of the recent rapid progress in artificial intell...
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Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP

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