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The web content highlights the common issue of text and icon alignment on various platforms like Slack, Airbnb, and YouTube. It delves into the technical aspects of font metrics, line height, and the challenges of perfect centering in design. The author calls for more attention to detail and care in UI design to avoid poorly […]
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MCC’s Cyc group aims to build a single intelligent agent with millions of entries for expert systems, natural language understanding, and machine learning. Cyc is a 40-year artificial intelligence project with vast knowledge and rules to mimic human reasoning, though overshadowed by current machine-learning algorithms. Led by Doug Lenat, Cyc combines common-sense knowledge and deep […]
Enjoy an array of interactive logic puzzles for all ages, including challenging games like ‘Chameleon Island’ where you help chameleons change color, or ‘Domino Dissection’ where you must use each domino on the board. Test your math skills with ‘Magic Flowers’ or ‘Stepping Stones’ and see if you can solve the puzzle. Don’t miss unique […]
The CFPB issued an order against BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred for deceiving students about the true cost of loans and job placement rates. BloomTech falsely claimed income share agreements were not loans, with exaggerated job placement rates as well. The order permanently bans BloomTech from consumer lending, Allred from student lending for ten years, […]
The author discusses the transformative experience of using vector embeddings for search, particularly highlighting their simplicity and efficiency. The article explains how vector embeddings encode human knowledge into arrays of numbers, making complex tasks more manageable for product engineers. The discussion covers the use of pgvector, a Postgres extension, for storing and querying embeddings seamlessly […]
For the first time ever, researchers at Linköping University have successfully created sheets of gold only one atom layer thick, calling it goldene. This breakthrough was achieved using a method inspired by Japanese forging art. By exfoliating gold from a three-dimensional base material with titanium and carbon layers, they produced a semiconductor material with unique […]
The World’s Smallest Nintendo Wii features a custom stacked PCB design, powered by USB-C and HDMI for ultimate connectivity. Despite its miniature size, this 1:2.38 scale model contains all the necessary components for gaming, including Bluetooth for Wii remotes, MicroSD card storage, and GameCube controller ports. The compact design requires a challenging motherboard trim and […]
Mixtral 8x22B is our latest sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) model that offers high performance and efficiency in the AI community. With only 39B active parameters out of 141B, it is cost-effective. The model is multilingual (English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish), has strong math and coding abilities, and is designed for reasoning tasks. Released under Apache […]
The LXQt team has released LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment based on Qt ≥ 6.6. Notably, PCManFM-Qt, LXQt Runner, and LXQt Desktop Notifications are fully compatible with Wayland compositors supporting the “layer shell protocol”. The new default application menu, Fancy Menu, offers improved functionality. However, some components like ScreenGrab and LXQt Global Shortcuts […]
Finley is revolutionizing the financial technology space for innovative companies by offering modern software to navigate the inefficient and opaque structured finance industry. With a team comprised of finance and software experts from top companies, Finley is building tools to automate debt capital management and fuel growth for high-growth companies in various industries. Emphasizing a […]