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Established in 2005, the Future of Humanity Institute was a hub for groundbreaking research at Oxford University. Led by Prof Nick Bostrom, a team of diverse researchers explored philosophical, technological, and ethical questions with long-term implications for humanity. The institute made invaluable contributions to fields such as existential risk, AI safety, and human enhancement ethics, […]
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Boston Dynamics recently announced the retirement of the hydraulic Atlas robot and introduced the next generation—an electric Atlas designed for real-world applications. This move builds on years of research and commitment to providing highly capable mobile robots for industry challenges. The company’s successful deployments of Spot and Stretch have paved the way for Atlas to […]
Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo are now available on the Stability AI Developer Platform API, surpassing DALL-E 3 and Midjourney v6 in text-to-image generation. The new Multimodal Diffusion Transformer architecture improves text understanding and spelling capabilities. The model is continuously being enhanced, with plans to release model weights for self-hosting soon. A […]
Companies often overlook the untapped potential of skilled pragmatists, who are resourceful, under-challenged, and often invisible. These employees are not lazy but skeptical of going above and beyond within existing systems. Instead of engaging with them, companies focus on low performers and rewarding heroics, missing out on a wealth of talent and motivation. This approach […]
The BiTE tool allows users to inspect binaries and their debug info across various architectures. While still in early development, it offers unique features like assembly listing viewing, binary disassembly, source code viewing, and interactive terminal. The author plans to implement more features like GUI porting, byte patching, debugging front-ends for GDB, LLDB, WinDbg, and […]
Stephen McAdams, a leading expert in the role of timbre in music, discusses the importance of different instruments creating varying timbres in Western music, using Wagner’s Parsifal as an example. Timbre, often underrated and ignored, is difficult to define but plays a crucial role in distinguishing musical instruments. Timbre can convey different emotions depending on […]
The author discusses a groundbreaking publication at ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA24) that presents a deterministic near-linear running time algorithm for finding a minimum cut in weighted graphs, a crucial optimization problem in computer science. The algorithm settles the optimal complexity for this problem, which has diverse practical applications like image restoration and network […]
A dentist discovered a human-like jaw embedded in travertine flooring his parents’ house in a fascinating Reddit post. The travertine, sourced from Turkey, is known for frequently containing fossils due to the nature of its formation near natural springs. The post sparked interest among professionals in archaeology and paleontology, who recognize that many hominin fossil […]
Lepton, formerly known as Proton Fix, is a Firefox theme project designed to enhance the overall feel of the new Proton design introduced in Firefox 89. The theme includes features like color contrast enhancements, dark mode support, compatibility with various systems, and customizable tab layouts. Installation can be done manually following a detailed guide or […]
In this research, the authors address the limitations of Transformers in handling long sequences due to their quadratic complexity and weak length extrapolation. They introduce Megalodon, a neural architecture optimized for efficient sequence modeling with unlimited context length. Megalodon builds on the Mega architecture, incorporating components like complex exponential moving average, timestep normalization layer, normalized […]