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Modular PC Design: Sustainable Approach Enhanced Repairability Reduced E-Waste

intel.com

In the increasingly digital world, e-waste is a growing problem. Every year, over 60+ Million tons...
In the increasingly digital world, e-waste is a growing problem. Every year, over 60+ Million tons of e-waste is generated with less than 25% collected [1]. Less than 12% of e-waste is recycled with over 85% being burnt, causing harmful pollution and environmental poisoning [2]. Computers contribute to a significant...

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Amazon UK to stop selling Bloomsbury's books

thebookseller.com
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Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML

softwaredoug.com

In previous posts I use a local LLM to choose which two products were more relevant...
In previous posts I use a local LLM to choose which two products were more relevant for a search query (see this github repo). Using human labels in an open e-commerce search dataset as a baseline (WANDS from Wayfair), I measure the LLM’s preference for a product, seeing if it matches human raters. If I can do this,...
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The U.S. has tried to buy Greenland before

nationalgeographic.com
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I wrote my own "proper" programming language (2020)

mukulrathi.com
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New Rust Jobs Site

rustdevfindjob.com
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Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (2021)

degoe.de

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New Electrical Code Could Doom Most Common EV Charging

motortrend.com
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The State of Vim

lwn.net

The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent...
The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on "the new Vim project" that detailed how the c...
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LoongArch64 Subjective Higlights

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I get back to work on simdutf recently, and noticed that the library gained support for...
I get back to work on simdutf recently, and noticed that the library gained support for LoongArch64. This is a custom design and custom ISA by Loongson from China. They provide documentation for scalar ISA, but not for the vector extension. Despite that, GCC, binutils, QEMU and other tools already support the ISA. T...
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UI is hell: four-function calculators

substack.com

I have a thing for the history of calculators; they were among the earliest portable electronics,...
I have a thing for the history of calculators; they were among the earliest portable electronics, they pushed the limits of display technologies, and were the first digital computing devices to enter millions of homes.A generic, basic LCD calculator. Photo by author.Today, if you asked any self-respecting software e...
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Tell LLMs to talk like Elmer Fudd so you know when they stop paying attention

bsky.app
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AI isn't going to kill the software industry

dustinewers.com

I feel like half of my social media feed is composed of AI grifters saying software...
I feel like half of my social media feed is composed of AI grifters saying software developers are not going to make it. Combine that sentiment with some economic headwinds and it’s easy to feel like we’re all screwed. I think that’s bullshit. The best days of our industry lie ahead.It’s highly unlikely that softwar...
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The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus

quantamagazine.org

Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the...
Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky foundation. Its core concepts were rooted in intuition and informal arguments, rather than precise, formal definitions. Two schools of thought emerged in response, according to Michael Bar...
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Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

vectorchord.ai

Traditional vector search methods typically employ sentence embeddings to locate similar content. However, generating sentence embeddings...
Traditional vector search methods typically employ sentence embeddings to locate similar content. However, generating sentence embeddings through pooling token embeddings can potentially sacrifice fine-grained details present at the token level. ColBERT overcomes this by representing text as token-level multi-vector...
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JavaScript Temporal Is Coming

mozilla.org

Some of the most basic usages of Temporal include getting current dates and times as an...
Some of the most basic usages of Temporal include getting current dates and times as an ISO string, but we can see from the example below, that we can now provide time zones with many methods, which takes care of complex calculations you may be doing yourself: // The current date in the system's time zone const date...
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Compiler Fuzzing in Continuous Integration: A Case Study on Dafny [pdf]

ic.ac.uk
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Ergodic Lagrangian dynamics in a superhero universe

aip.org
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GitHub-Kudos

github.com
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Extraction of Secrets from 40nm CMOS Gate Dielectric Breakdown Antifuses

arxiv.org

Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:CMOS one-time-programmable (OTP) memories based on antifuses are...
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:CMOS one-time-programmable (OTP) memories based on antifuses are widely used for storing small amounts of data (such as serial numbers, keys, and factory trimming) in integrated circuits due to their low cost, requiring no additional mask steps to fabricate....
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Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder

chipsandcheese.com

Zen 5 has an interesting frontend setup with a pair of fetch and decode clusters. Each...
Zen 5 has an interesting frontend setup with a pair of fetch and decode clusters. Each cluster serves one of the core’s two SMT threads. That creates parallels to AMD’s Steamroller architecture from the pre-Zen days. Zen 5 and Steamroller can both decode up to eight instructions per cycle with two threads active, or...
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Capacitors Meet Geometric Series

ivanbelenky.com
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Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

AI-powered Regulatory Compliance Platform₹1M - ₹3.2M INR / 0.02% - 0.14%Connect directly with founders of the...
AI-powered Regulatory Compliance Platform₹1M - ₹3.2M INR / 0.02% - 0.14%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › We are Sei, an AI-powered regulatory compliance platform. Since launching, a few months ago, we're live with large enterprises across the US, Europe, and APAC and grow...
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DM50 Calculator

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