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Between 1991 and 1998, Star Wars fans were left in a void as creator George Lucas stepped away from the franchise after Return of the Jedi in 1983. The refusal to allow new creations led to a decline in Star Wars related content, except for some fundraising projects. The Expanded Universe was finally revived in […]
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Kyoo is a cutting-edge open-source media browser that offers a powerful alternative to Plex and Jellyfin. With features like dynamic transcoding, automatic watch history, and intelligent metadata retrieval, Kyoo aims to redefine your streaming experience. Unlike its competitors, Kyoo focuses solely on movies, TV shows, and anime, offering a streamlined approach without the need for […]
time talking about how hard it is to find a coffee cup with a lid. I begrudgingly went anyway, hoping for some kind of advice on how to not feel so underwater all the time. Instead, it turned out, my fellow graduate students were all feeling the same kind of sucky, mucky despair that I […]
The Earthquake Event Page app is compatible with modern browsers or offers Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services. Users can stay updated on earthquakes and other related information easily. It is user-friendly and provides a convenient way to access important data. No controversial information is mentioned, but the option to receive real-time notifications is a […]
The European Union and China are making moves away from Microsoft’s dominance on desktops by embracing open-source software like Linux and LibreOffice for digital sovereignty. The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is switching 30,000 employees to Linux and LibreOffice for improved security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection. They aim to replace Microsoft Office, Windows, and other proprietary […]
Big Tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are not only influencing our economy, but also shaping our society and raising concerns about privacy, monopoly power, discrimination, misinformation, hate speech, and mental health. These platforms are causing polarization and harming consumers, workers, and smaller businesses. Lobbyists are trying to sneak restrictive trade agreements through to […]
AI systems, particularly Machine Learning models, are transforming the Web by training on large amounts of content and generating new content at record speed and scale. This document explores the ethical, societal, and technical impacts of AI on the Web, highlighting the need for standardization and guidelines to manage these changes. Controversial issues include transparency […]
In this paper, the authors explore the challenge of algorithmic reasoning for large language models (LLMs) and propose a new framework called Think-and-Execute. This framework involves discovering task-level logic shared across instances, expressing it in pseudocode in the Think step, and then tailoring it to each instance and simulating execution in the Execute step. The […]
C++20 introduced minimal support for coroutines, which were inspired by C# coroutines but don’t align well with C++. Coroutines allow for non-blocking concurrent code and are essentially functions that behave differently when called multiple times. A struct in C++ can represent a coroutine, transforming traditional code into coroutine format. However, a major issue arises with […]
JetMoE-8B, created by Yikang Shen, Zhen Guo, Tianle Cai, and Zengyi Qin, surpasses Meta AI’s LLaMA2-7B despite costing less than $0.1 million to train, revealing that LLM training can be more affordable than believed. This model, with only 2.2B active parameters during inference, achieves superior performance to Gemma-2B. The unique architecture includes 24 blocks, each […]