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Amateur historian Brian Cleary made a groundbreaking discovery at the National Library of Ireland – a lost short story by Bram Stoker, titled Gibbet Hill, published in 1890. This ghostly tale sheds light on Stoker’s development as an author, marking a significant point on his path to creating Dracula. The story follows a murdered sailor […]
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Join over 45,000 readers of Apricitas by hitting subscribe! Microsoft’s move to reopen Three Mile Island reactor underscores the tech industry’s reliance on legacy nuclear facilities for power. The AI boom has fueled a surge in US data center construction, with over $28.6B spent annually. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are rapidly scaling up […]
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, fired an intern for interfering with the training of its AI models, but downplayed the extent of the damage caused. The intern, who was part of the advertising technology team and not the AI Lab, was dismissed after disrupting an AI training system. Contrary to reports, ByteDance denied that more […]
Sampling is a powerful tool for extracting meaning from large datasets. By reducing data into representative samples using SQL, even FAANG-sized datasets become manageable. Built-in support for sampling, such as TABLESAMPLE clauses in SQL dialects, is available in some database systems. For more challenging scenarios, algorithms like A-ES allow for weighted, deterministic sampling without replacement. […]
CEO of Mosaic, Jeffrey Martin, is excited to share the release of an exceptional image dataset of Prague for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This 15.15 terapixel dataset includes 210,469 panoramas with centimeter-accurate positioning. Martin’s journey in high-resolution imaging led to the creation of Mosaic, focusing on 360-degree cameras. The Prague dataset […]
Kurt Vonnegut, known for his novel Slaughterhouse-Five, was also a game designer who created GHQ in 1956. Recently unearthed, GHQ is a board game that showcases Vonnegut’s grasp of modern warfare, in contrast to his later cynical view of war in The Sirens of Titan. Intriguingly, Vonnegut believed GHQ could serve as a training tool […]
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The author expresses gratitude for support over the years and explains their decision to archive the project due to time constraints. They clarify that archiving won’t remove stars from the project and plan to delist the app from Google Play. The author intends to switch to Bitwarden and self-hosted Vaultwarden for password management. A commenter […]
This proposal introduces a memory-safe reference type, T%, without lifetime annotations, aiming to simplify C++’s memory safety model. Safe references ensure exclusivity, allowing only one mutable or multiple shared references to a place. The proposal contrasts legacy lvalue- and rvalue-references with the new safe reference type, emphasizing the necessity of enforcing exclusivity. The content discusses […]
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a shortage of semiconductors drove up electronics costs worldwide. However, MIT researchers have developed a way of 3D printing fully functional electronic devices without semiconductors, opening up the possibility of democratizing electronics fabrication. Using copper-doped polymers, the researchers created devices that function as resettable fuses, typically requiring semiconductors. While not as […]