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Nvidia dominates the high-performance GPU space, but AMD’s strong CPU offerings make it a competitor. AMD’s ability to sell CPUs and GPUs as a unit has led to wins in consoles and supercomputers, like Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier. Nvidia has the NVLink interconnect but is now pushing for high-performance CPUs with GPUs, like the […]
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The Board has been reviewing and taking action on various recommendations from the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team Final Report. Recent actions include rejecting CCT Recommendations 2, 3, 4, and 5, which called for pricing data collection in the domain name market. Instead, the Board is focusing on non-pricing data elements […]
LLM-Aided OCR Project is a cutting-edge system that enhances OCR text quality using natural language processing and large language models. It corrects errors, formats text, removes duplicate content, and offers configurable options like header suppression. The system supports both local and API-based LLMs, async processing, token management, and quality assessment. Users can customize settings in […]
Thunder Compute offers a cloud instance that is highly scalable, flexible, simple to use, and serverless. Users can switch between CPUs and GPUs with a single command, saving money by developing on their CPU and accessing a cluster of GPUs on-demand when needed. Thunder Compute ensures that GPUs are utilized efficiently, with high-performance GPUs available […]
The founder of Urchin Software Corporation reflects on the journey from its humble beginnings as a web analytics company in San Diego to its acquisition by Google in 2005. The company struggled through tough financial times, including a near-death experience in 2001 when employees took pay cuts to keep the business afloat. They innovatively simplified […]
The author discusses a new architecture for web development that leverages the Raft Consensus algorithm, aiming to simplify the process of building web services or web apps. They propose using a single server with all data stored in RAM instead of traditional databases, highlighting the benefits of this approach, such as improved performance and easier […]
The web content features a workspace that includes everything you need in multiple languages, catering to a diverse global audience. It offers effortless translation and adaptation of emails for international readers, along with comprehensive tracking and analysis of email performance. Users can utilize advanced expressions to personalize emails, and easily switch between light and dark […]
The author explains their background in music, with a focus on vocals and tracking their own material. They delve into their venture into tech work and rekindling their interest in coding through Sonic Pi, a software synth controlled by code. They discuss the unique features of Sonic Pi’s control language, using examples like note names […]
Ternary notation is impressively efficient, using two “trits” to represent nine numbers as opposed to four numbers with binary. Although systems with more states seem like they would be more efficient, ternary turns out to be the most economical way to represent large numbers in an integer base. Base 3 not only offers numerical efficiency, […]
Bill Broyles recounts his near-death experience in the Sonoran Desert, mirroring the harrowing journey of Mexican prospector Pablo Valencia in 1905. Broyles, on the hunt for adventure and introspection, navigates the scorching landscape with water caches and determination, facing dehydration and hallucinations along the way. Valencia, after days without water, hallucinates and pushes through extreme […]