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May 28

Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective

arxiv.org
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May 28

Unlocking Ractors: class instance variables in Ruby

byroot.github.io

In a previous post about ractors, I explained why I think it’s really unlikely you’d ever...
In a previous post about ractors, I explained why I think it’s really unlikely you’d ever be able to run an entire application inside a ractor, but that they could still be situationally very useful to move CPU-bound work out of the main thread, and to unlock some parallel algorithm. But as I mentioned, this is unfo...
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May 28

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update

arxiv.org
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May 28

YAD: display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line

ingk.se

YAD dialog examples YAD - (Yet Another Dialog) is a simple tool for developing Graphical User...
YAD dialog examples YAD - (Yet Another Dialog) is a simple tool for developing Graphical User Interfaces. It will integrate with bash. Type yad --help-all in a terminal to see all command line help. Unfortunately this help does not provide enough information on how to use yad to it’s full potential. This is why i wr...
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May 28

A Visual History of Chessmen

chesshistory.github.io

A number of US chess patterns from the American Chess Company, which feature kings with pointed...
A number of US chess patterns from the American Chess Company, which feature kings with pointed spear-tips for finials. They are associated with the 1904 Cambridge Springs event, such that any early 20th C. American Chess Company set is often given the name "Cambridge Springs". The variants of this style have differ...
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May 28

Long live American Science and Surplus (which needs your help)

milwaukeerecord.com
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May 28

What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours

stephenwolfram.com

We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many...
We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional language of the kind we humans use is possible. At the 100 m...
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May 28

Collatz's Ant and Similarity of Landscapes

gbragafibra.github.io
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May 28

A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states

prettygoodblog.com

This is another post about programming, which I almost never write about.Click here to jump straight...
This is another post about programming, which I almost never write about.Click here to jump straight to trying this thing out for yourself.In my previous post on Threads, I made an offhand comparison:Threads are just emulator save states, coupled with a condition upon which they will be resumed.At the time, I though...
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May 28

Ice Cream Replaced Booze in the US Navy

oldsaltblog.com

General Order 99 One hundred and eleven years ago on July 1, 1914, Secretary of the...
General Order 99 One hundred and eleven years ago on July 1, 1914, Secretary of the US Navy Josephus Daniels issued General Order 99, banning “the use or introduction for drinking purposes of alcoholic liquors on board any naval vessel, or within any navy yard or station.” The US Navy had ended the rum ration in 186...
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May 28

What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway

buttondown.com

May 28, 2025 I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new...
May 28, 2025 I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and will aim to showcase some of the formal methods mental models that would be useful in mainstream software development. It has added some extra stress on my schedule, though, so expect the next two monthly releases of Logic for...
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May 28

Wake Up, Remix

remix.run

At React Conf last summer we announced that Remix was going to "take a nap". Remix...
At React Conf last summer we announced that Remix was going to "take a nap". Remix v2 had become such a thin wrapper around React Router that an artificial separation developed between the two projects. We simplified the projects by moving the bundler and server runtime code from Remix directly into React Router v7,...
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May 28

The Decline of Battery Life

brainbaking.com

As I was writing my Evercade gaming device review, I noticed that the battery life of...
As I was writing my Evercade gaming device review, I noticed that the battery life of the new handheld machine wasn’t quite up to par, clocking in at about four hours playtime, fairly independent of the screen brightness settings. Of course I’m heavily biased here, vividly remembering having to lug around four spare...

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May 28

Why is it so hard to get families to live in community houses?

substack.com

In my social circles, becoming a parent is seen as a gigantic sacrifice. You lose sleep,...
In my social circles, becoming a parent is seen as a gigantic sacrifice. You lose sleep, time with friends, time for hobbies. You’ll probably have to move to a less desirable neighborhood to afford the extra space for your kid. If you’re the one carrying the child, you’re ‘destroying’ your body and jeopardizing your...
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May 28

Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens

sea-ql.org
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May 28

Deepseek R1-0528

huggingface.co
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May 28

I am disappointed in the AI discourse

steveklabnik.com
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May 28

Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot

spritely.institute
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May 28

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system

japantimes.co.jp

digitalization e-commerce japan post personal information postal services
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May 28

LLM Codegen go Brrr – Parallelization with Git Worktrees and Tmux

skeptrune.com
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May 28

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers

ycombinator.com
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May 28

Compiling a Neural Net to C for a 1,744× speedup

slightknack.dev

2025-05-27 · About 25 minutes long tl;dr: I trained a neural network (NN), with logic gates...
2025-05-27 · About 25 minutes long tl;dr: I trained a neural network (NN), with logic gates in the place of activation functions, to learn a 3×3 kernel function for Conway’s Game of Life. I wanted to see if I could speed up inference by extracting the learned logic circuit from the NN. So, I wrote some code to extra...
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May 28

Mathematical Fiction

charleston.edu
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May 28

FlowTSE: Target Speaker Extraction with Flow Matching

arxiv.org
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