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The Oscars are a platform where both artistic excellence and industry politics collide. While the rise of the #MeToo movement shed light on issues of power and dominance in Hollywood, data analysis shows that religious mentions in acceptance speeches have also been on the rise, with God being thanked more often than Harvey Weinstein. Surprisingly, […]
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In recent years, there have been significant advancements in distributed systems, yet programming them remains a challenge. While tools like Jepsen and Antithesis have improved the verification of correctness and fault tolerance, they only scratch the surface of fundamental concepts. Different architectures, such as external-distribution, static-location, and arbitrary-location, have their own pros and cons. The […]
In 2021, the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab brought a significant discrepancy between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment, hinting at new physics. An alternative prediction suggested the Fermilab result aligns with the Standard Model. Alex Keshavarzi delves into the intense showdown in particle physics set for 2025. Despite discrepancies, […]
Probly is an AI-powered spreadsheet application that merges spreadsheet functions with Python data analysis capabilities. It offers an interactive spreadsheet with formula support, the ability to run Python code directly on data, data visualization tools, and intelligent suggestions. Requirements include Node.js 18 or higher, npm or yarn, and a modern web browser. Setup involves cloning […]
Physicist Luis Alvarez proposed using muons, subatomic particles, to “X-ray” the pyramids of Giza, confirming the feasibility of muon tomography. Muon detectors have been used to study volcanos, Fukushima, and revealed hidden chambers in the pyramids. You can build a muon detector for $100 using Geiger-Müller tubes and an Arduino Nano. By using the coincidence […]
The author of the web content discusses how solitaire, particularly Klondike, inspired their game Balatro. They wanted Balatro to have the same vibe as solitaire – comforting and enjoyable in a low-stakes way. The author envisioned players casually playing Balatro like solitaire on a lazy Sunday afternoon. While Balatro has a meta-game with achievements and […]
The decipherment of ancient scripts, such as Linear Elamite, has long been a quest for connection with the past. François Desset’s groundbreaking work in deciphering Linear Elamite was propelled by examining mysterious silver vessels in a private London collection with Linear Elamite inscriptions. This led to the identification of a phonographic writing system, consisting of […]
DeepSeek Infra shares profiling data from their training and inference framework, captured using the PyTorch Profiler, to help the community understand communication-computation overlap strategies and implementation details. The training profile shows a balanced MoE routing strategy. In inference prefilling, they use two micro-batches to overlap computation and communication, balancing attention computation load. Decoding profile details, […]
Tach Tach is a Python tool written in Rust that enforces dependencies and interfaces, inspired by modular monolith architecture. It can validate imports, cross-module calls, and prevent cycles in the dependency graph. Tach is open source, installable via pip, and has no runtime impact. It guides you through project setup with an interactive interface and […]
The recent study on simulating time in Square-Root Space presents a significant advancement in computational theory. It demonstrates that multitape Turing machines running in time t can be simulated in significantly less space, specifically O(√t log t). This represents a notable improvement over previous simulations dating back 50 years. The research also sheds light on […]