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Andrej Karpathy’s groundbreaking tweet in 2023 highlighted the desire for programming in English over traditional languages like Python and C++. The dream of specifying abstractly without writing code brought about Intentional Software, led by Charles Simonyi, but didn’t fully succeed. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, programming in English seems achievable, […]
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Reading Day is a pivotal moment in a child’s life, marking the transition from illiteracy to literacy within a single day. On this day, children are subjected to various tests and procedures to determine their reading abilities. George Platen, an eight-year-old boy, undergoes these tests and is transformed from a non-reader to a reader within […]
In Fall 2022, the documentary “The Bleeding Edge” revealed shocking information about the FDA’s medical device clearance process, highlighting how devices can be fast-tracked without clinical trials, leading to patient injuries. The process includes 510(k) clearance, which allows new devices to be marketed if equivalent to existing ones without trials. Digging into the data, the […]
The Yi model family, created by a team of authors including Alex Young and Shawn Yue, features language and multimodal models with impressive capabilities. These models are built on pretrained language models and expanded to include chat models, long context models, depth-upscaled models, and vision-language models. The models have shown strong performance on various benchmarks […]
At a fork in the road of programming language semantics lies the choice between call-by-value (CBV) and call-by-name/call-by-need (CBN) evaluation strategies. Languages like Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python, and C/C++ opt for CBV, while Haskell stands as the sole proponent of CBN. However, a recent breakthrough in the form of Call-by-Push-Value (CBPV) introduces a third option […]
Author presents protodump, a tool for extracting protobuf definitions from compiled binaries, useful for reverse engineering closed-source APIs. By analyzing the byte array generated by protoc (Google’s protoc compiler), the field names and types can be extracted and decoded. A search strategy involving the ASCII string “.proto” is employed to locate FileDescriptors, which can be […]
React Geiger is a unique tool designed to “audiolize” React performance issues by generating clicks to draw attention to slow component rerenders. Simply wrap the desired component in the component and any rerenders that exceed the set threshold (default: 50ms) will trigger a click sound. This tool can be applied to your entire app or […]
Japanese scientists created replicas of Stone Age tools to understand how they were used in the Early Upper Paleolithic era. By conducting hands-on experiments, they were able to identify new criteria for identifying the likely functions of ancient tools. The tools used for woodworking purposes evolved from simple to sophisticated over time, with evidence suggesting […]
Browsers can use audio files to identify web visitors, a technique known as audio fingerprinting. Apple introduced advanced fingerprinting protection in Safari 17 to combat this, adding noise to audio samples to prevent identification. This protection affects the Screen API and Canvas API, but in this article, we focus on the Audio API. By adding […]
A groundbreaking new treatment called Trikafta has revolutionized the lives of patients with cystic fibrosis, a disease that once guaranteed an early death. Trikafta thins mucus in the lungs and has allowed patients to live longer than ever before. Patients experience a dramatic improvement in lung function, coughing up years of accumulated mucus in a […]