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Own a personal weather station and internet connection? The NWS and local TV meteorologists want your data for more accurate forecasts. Your data can help improve computer models and make meteorologists aware of local micro-climates. Ever wonder where small town weather data on TV comes from? Personal weather stations like yours! By joining the Citizen […]
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The Sol Mate e-Paper Display project was born from the initial creation of the Sol Mate GPT. This repository contains all the code needed to display a weather report for any location on a Raspberry Pi with a Waveshare e-Paper display. The hardware required includes a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Waveshare e-Paper 7.3″ display. […]
The V8 team has developed the V8 Sandbox to tackle browser exploits originating from memory safety bugs. Despite V8 being written in C++, the vulnerabilities are complex logic issues rather than traditional memory corruption bugs. GraalJS, a JavaScript engine built using Truffle and Java, eliminates memory safety bugs by design. Truffle fundamentally changes VM architecture […]
Sea levels have risen globally by 21cm to 24cm since 1880, mainly due to water expanding as it warms and meltwater from Greenland and Antarctica. This threatens coastal properties, livelihoods, and low-lying countries, allowing destructive storms to reach farther inland. As melting polar ice contributes more, some suggest using technology like underwater curtains or ice-thickening […]
The NIST SP 800-108 is a type of publication that delves into key derivation using pseudorandom functions. In a recent update to the standard, a security issue was discovered by Amazon’s cryptographers, leading to the addition of a new section addressing Key Control Security. The attack against the initial design highlights the vulnerability when using […]
State-space models (SSMs) were thought to potentially outperform transformers in language models due to their similar architecture to recurrent neural networks. However, a study by Merrill & Sabharwal in 2023 disproved this notion. Contrary to expectations, SSMs do not have a significant advantage over transformers in state tracking capabilities. Experimental results indicate that SSMs struggle […]
In this insightful article, the author delves into the importance of continuous monitoring of systems using tools like Checkly and Coralogix to identify issues that traditional testing may not catch. By implementing OpenTelemetry monitoring and identifying a latency issue with housekeeping tasks, the team was able to make a small fix that resulted in significant […]
Ice is a dynamic menu bar management tool designed to hide and show menu bar items while offering a range of additional features. It is continuously evolving, with some features still in development. To use Ice, simply Command + drag your menu bar items for easy rearrangement. You can manually install Ice by downloading the […]
The underwater noise from ships in the Mediterranean Sea has significantly increased, affecting the lives of marine organisms that rely on sound for survival. Authored by Amorina Kingdon, her book, “Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water,” explores the impact of this noise on marine ecosystems. In locations like the St. Lawrence River, […]
Autoregressive models like the GPT family typically use a fixed left-to-right order to generate sequences, but this paper challenges that norm. By adding a positional encoding for the output, the order can be adjusted per sample, offering advantages like sampling and conditioning on specific tokens. The method also allows for dynamic sampling of multiple tokens […]