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The author received three DMCA takedown notices for 7,350 URLs on their hardbin.com IPFS gateway alleging that the URLs were serving infringing copies of books. However, of those URLs, none have ever been accessed during the time for which the author has nginx logs, and of the ones they checked, none even worked. The author […]
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In Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, cultural historian Mike Jay explores the use of drugs throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries in investigating altered states of consciousness. From morphine to laughing gas and hashish to cocaine, Jay delves into both the experiences of people who used these drugs and how […]
The U.S. Agriculture Department has given the go-ahead to California companies Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell chicken made from animal cells. They are the first firms to gain approval for cell-cultivated meat, which is grown in tanks using cells from live animals or stored cells. The process, hailed by advocates as a way […]
The author’s sons both possess absolute pitch (AP), meaning they can produce and identify musical pitches without any reference notes. The author, who is bad at music herself, set about trying to develop her sons’ musical abilities using methods such as consistent exposure to labeled pitches with a labeled keyboard, solfeggio practice, and the use […]
Jamsocket is a painless session backend platform built for WebSockets. This architecture is commonly used for multiplayer collaboration, sandboxed user code execution, Jupyter notebooks, and more. Jamsocket allows users to spin up session backends on the fly, making hard things easy to scale effortlessly. With Jamsocket, you can share backends among users, run memory-intensive work […]
Platinum photography was a popular method of creating permanent photographs in the early 20th century, before falling out of fashion. The images produced using this process are incredibly matte and have an infinite range of tones, with fine detail that appears almost hyper-real. They are also incredibly stable, with images retaining their deep tones and […]
The author reflects on the DevOps movement, which began 14 years ago and has since become a widely accepted standard for collaboration between developers and operations. However, despite the cultural changes brought about by DevOps, many technology companies are still struggling to deploy more frequently than once a week. The author suggests that the problem […]
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) can lead to impressive results, but its implementation is challenging due to issues with measuring its impact and optimizing complex data landscapes. RLHF works when there is a signal that supervised learning alone cannot handle, and a capable base model that can follow instructions is available. The preference data […]
At this company, we believe in constantly pushing ourselves to do better work. Our team is made up of individuals who are passionate about their jobs and are always striving to improve. We understand that the only way to achieve success is through hard work and dedication, and we are committed to upholding those values […]
The author discusses the challenges of memory management in C and C++, particularly in large codebases where memory is often managed through smart pointers. To tackle these issues, the author proposes the use of index-handles, which replace pointers to reduce memory corruption and optimize cache use. They suggest moving memory management into centralized systems, grouping […]