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The author spent a month exploring how to create better workflows that combine human intuition with machine intelligence, focusing on the significance of designing better notations for understanding ourselves, the world, and our place in it. The post delves into the diversity of notations, including writing systems, mathematical notation, dance notation, and music notation. The […]
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Rare Earths Norway has discovered Europe’s largest rare earth elements deposit, challenging China’s control over the market. With 8.8 million metric tons of total rare earth oxides, this deposit in Norway could play a crucial role in the clean energy transition. The company hopes to contribute to the EU’s goal of extracting 10% of its […]
The content discusses NVIDIA GPUs and their programming models, focusing on SIMT, SIMD, and SMT. The SIMT model is a hybrid between vector processing and hardware threading, offering both flexibility and efficiency. SIMT is a more flexible version of SIMD, with SMT being even more flexible, but less efficient. The content highlights the benefits and […]
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, Free Software tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. POV-Ray is available for download on their website, with navigation links provided for easy access. The founder of DKBTrace, which inspired POV-Ray, has created a Kickstarter campaign for an open-source IDE focused on Smalltalk called PigeonTalk. The project aims […]
Google Pay, previously known as GPay, is no longer available in the US as of June 4. The redesigned Google Pay aimed to simplify money management with plans for a mobile-first bank account that never materialized. Google now focuses on Google Wallet, offering the ability to view and transfer your balance to a bank account. […]
The FDA has denied a petition to reconsider the ban on ortho-phthalates in food due to safety concerns. Ortho-phthalates are chemicals used in plastic products to make them soft. The FDA determined that the reconsideration petition does not provide a basis for changing their response to the original petition. The decision to deny the original […]
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Self-serve BI tools are often marketed as a solution to enable non-technical users to query data without relying on engineers or data scientists. However, in reality, these tools often fall short as they overlook the importance of context and semantics in understanding the data being queried. The key to effective self-serve BI lies in empowering […]
Researchers have unveiled MEGALODON, a groundbreaking large language model designed to overcome the limitations of traditional Transformer neural architectures. With chunk-wise attention and parallel sequence-based training, MEGALODON outperforms other models like Llama 2 on various benchmarks. The model boasts linear computational complexity and the ability to handle sequences of unlimited length, showing promise for large-scale […]
The RP2040 is a microcontroller by Raspberry Pi designed for consumer electronics, available in large quantities from Mouser. Unlike other companies offering a variety of similar microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi chose to use just one model, simplifying choices for users. The RP2040’s design focuses on being cost-effective and flexible, with features like two cores, 30 GPIO […]