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JupyterLab 4.0 has been released, featuring faster speeds, an upgraded text editor, improved search and accessibility, and more. The real-time collaboration feature has also been moved into a separate package, and the extension manager now includes prebuilt Python extensions and extensions from pypi.org. In addition, the dual-mode settings editor, cell toolbar, and notifications have been […]
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McDonald’s has created a brand new Game Boy Color game, Grimace’s Birthday, which was produced by Krool Toys and developed using GB Studio. The platforming game involves playing as Grimace, who must locate his buddies to start his birthday party, and features skateboarding and unique levels. Although it is unclear why McDonald’s decided to commission […]
Cormac McCarthy, a reclusive and acclaimed writer known for his exploration of a dark and violent world of outsiders, has passed away at the age of 89. McCarthy’s books included “All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road,” and “No Country for Old Men,” all of which were adapted into films. Some critics found his work self-consciously […]
In recent research, smaller models have been enhanced through imitation learning, drawing on outputs generated by larger foundation models (LFMs). These smaller models often struggle with limited imitation signals and a lack of rigorous evaluation, leading to overestimation of their capabilities as they learn to imitate the style but not the reasoning process of LFMs. […]
Anchor Brewing Company, a historic California brewery with roots dating back to the Gold Rush era, has announced that it will no longer be selling its portfolio of beers outside of California, and expects to discontinue its iconic holiday beer, Christmas Ale, which has been a brewing tradition since 1975. The decision is due to […]
Browsers are once again supporting the ability to style the scrollbar with CSS, but the author of this article argues that this is a mistake due to accessibility considerations. When you modify the scrollbar, you break external consistency, which for those with lower levels of digital literacy can make them feel like they have broken […]
Researchers at the University of Mainz in Germany have discovered that the current model of nuclear forces is – surprisingly – inadequate. Francesco Pederiva and Petra Riegle-VanGilder, nuclear physicists from the University of Trento, Italy, said the findings showed that physicists “are at a turning point” in terms of understanding atomic nuclei. The current model, […]
This blog post discusses the authors’ second Spring Lisp Game Jam entry, wasm4-wireworld, which is an implementation of Wireworld on top of Hoot’s lower-level assembly tools. Wireworld is a cellular automata similar to Conway’s Game of Life that flows electrons on copper wires. They used WASM-4, a “fantasy console” that uses low-level WebAssembly constructs, to […]
This header file attempts to abstract the underlying operating system for the SQLite library to work on both POSIX and Windows systems. The file includes macros necessary for the SQLite library to work, such as the maximum pathname length and the default size of a disk sector. It also contains information on file locking in […]
SnapFusion has presented a novel approach that allows for running text-to-image diffusion models on mobile devices in less than two seconds. Traditional text-to-image models are computationally expensive, requiring high-end GPUs and cloud-based inference for scale. SnapFusion’s approach involves introducing an efficient UNet and improving step distillation, allowing for user-friendly content creation while protecting user data […]