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In this web content, the author shares a personal story about spending Christmas working at a fireworks tent. He reflects on the concept of home and describes his upbringing in Mississippi. The author’s voice is casual and he shares anecdotes from his life, including his father giving him guns before starting the job and his […]
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Wine development release 9.0-rc1 is now available. This release marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period in preparation for Wine 9.0. Some notable features in this release include an upgraded version of bundled vkd3d, support for DH encryption keys with a recent GnuTLS, keyboard layouts support in the Wayland driver, and various bug […]
The addition of binary lists has been a well-studied problem in mathematics. If the sets are random, the resulting sums are typically all different. However, sets that are not random and not subgroups have been difficult to study. The Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture proposed a polynomial version of this problem, but a proof has been elusive. Recently, […]
NetworkX is a powerful Python package that allows users to create, manipulate, and explore complex networks. It provides a wide range of features, including data structures for graphs, digraphs, and multigraphs, as well as many standard graph algorithms. Users can also analyze the structure and properties of networks using various measures. What sets NetworkX apart […]
In this web content, the author discusses the importance of quality assurance (QA) measures in software projects. They highlight the common problem of companies neglecting QA due to budget constraints and time constraints. The author points out that computer science education often lacks sufficient training in QA, which is a shame considering that most students […]
Together Research is focused on developing new architectures for efficient sequence modeling. They have recently introduced the StripedHyena models, including StripedHyena-Hessian-7B (SH 7B) and StripedHyena-Nous-7B (SH-N 7B). These models combine attention and gated convolutions to achieve competitive performance with the best open-source Transformers. StripedHyena is faster and more memory efficient for training and generation, outperforming […]
Gaussian splatting has experienced a surge of research activity in recent months, with new papers being published regularly. Several notable developments have occurred, including the release of SuperSplat by PlayCanvas, a tool for online splat editing, and the addition of Gaussian splat support by Spline. Various research projects have explored different aspects of Gaussian splatting, […]
In the ongoing copyright litigation between Getty Images and Stability AI, the court has issued its first order. Getty Images, a provider of stock photographs, has sued Stability AI for copyright infringement, database right infringement, trade mark infringement, and passing off. Getty alleges that Stability AI scraped images from their website without permission and used […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Inhance Technologies to cease production of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) created through its fluorination process. The process, used to treat millions of plastic containers every year, has been found to create nine PFAS, including three highly toxic ones. The agency is concerned that these substances can leach […]
The FDA has approved the first-ever CRISPR-based medicine, called Casgevy, for the treatment of sickle cell disease. Developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, Casgevy has shown the potential to eliminate recurrent episodes of debilitating pain caused by sickle cell. The therapy works by precisely repairing DNA mutations, offering a potential long-term cure for the […]