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New York City Mayor Kathy Hochul has shelved a proposed congestion pricing plan that would have charged automobiles $15 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. This decision has sparked debates on the impact on remote work, traffic speeds, bridge and parking prices, and the financial burdens on lower-income households. The delay has been seen as […]
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Inspectus is a powerful visualization tool for large language models, accessible through a simple Python API in Jupyter notebooks. Offering various views, such as the Attention Matrix, Query Token Heatmap, Key Token Heatmap, and Dimension Heatmap, it allows users to understand how tokens interact during processing. The tool can be easily implemented by importing the […]
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The author stumbled upon near-ultrasonic ‘pilot tones’ used in PA systems to measure health status by being present in many multi-loudspeaker systems like Zenitel VPA. Although inaudible to most humans, some may still hear them, especially if the frequency drops below 20 kHz. The tones are not believed to be harmful weapons but rather a […]
piku is a lightweight alternative to Heroku/CloudFoundry for deploying applications on small servers like ARM boards. It supports multiple applications per host, scaling independently on ARM and Intel architectures, and on any cloud provider or bare metal that can run Python, nginx, and uwsgi. The workflow is similar to Heroku: create a git SSH remote, […]
A recent uproar on academic X saw supporters of “Women in STEM” turn on Katalin Karikó, co-inventor of mRNA technology, for criticizing academia’s focus on politics and people pleasing. Her insightful book passage shed light on the challenges faced by unconventional thinkers like Karikó, who struggled to navigate the bureaucratic maze of science. While some […]
Summarized Content: Create and visualize how an iceberg floats above the water using a game inspired by a tweet from @GlacialMeg. Icebergs float with about 10% of their mass above the water due to being less dense than water, but their exact orientation is more complex in reality. The game by @joshdata approximates this based […]
medications for years below the anti-doping threshold. However, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) notified Lizzy Banks of returning an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) for formoterol, a medication for asthma, and chlortalidone, a diuretic, despite her history of using the asthma medication well below the anti-doping threshold. UKAD initially wanted a two-year ban, which Lizzy contested, leading to […]
In this week’s installment of On Call, Edward from an Australian managed services provider shares a tale of IT troubleshooting. A client’s new laptops were unable to connect to external monitors, leading to a comical discovery of missing cables and swapped monitors. It turns out the end-user took matters into their own hands due to […]
Sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, has been found to improve blood flow to the brain and enhance the function of brain blood vessels in patients at risk of vascular dementia. This groundbreaking research conducted by the University of Oxford marks a significant step in the fight against this debilitating condition. The trial, involving 75 participants, […]