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Clarkesworld Magazine is a sci-fi and fantasy magazine known for its thought-provoking articles and original fiction. With numerous awards under its belt, including Hugo and World Fantasy Awards, Clarkesworld has a solid reputation in the genre. Honford Star focuses on East Asian literature, aiming to provide authentic narratives to a global audience. Eric Goebelbecker delves […]
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Mitochondria play a crucial role in regulating metabolic rate and aging, but their decline with age leads to reduced ATP production and increased production of reactive oxygen species. Retinal photoreceptors are particularly affected by mitochondrial changes and age rapidly, with a decline in cone function starting around 40 years. Exposure to long-wavelength light has been […]
RustOwl provides a unique way to visualize ownership movement and lifetimes of variables in Rust for debugging and optimization purposes. The tool uses color-coded underlines to represent different aspects such as actual lifetime, borrowing, value movement, and lifetime errors. Currently supporting VSCode, Neovim, and Emacs, RustOwl allows users to easily inspect variables and function calls […]
A plane crash at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport left 18 passengers injured, with conflicting reports on the exact number of casualties. The Delta Air Lines flight flipped on its back upon landing, with all 76 passengers and crew members accounted for. Heroic first responders were praised for their quick response, with no loss of life […]
The author discusses a persistent issue of Linux crashing upon sleep due to a driver bug, taking over a year to diagnose and solve. They share their journey of debugging, analyzing crash logs, experimenting with system changes, setting up a serial console for data retrieval during crashes, and proposing kernel patches to address the bug. […]
In 1984, the author’s parents took the family to see David Lynch’s Dune, where the complexity of the film’s logic perplexed the audience. Fast forward to 1981, George Lucas considered David Lynch to direct Return of the Jedi, which was initially titled Revenge of the Jedi. Lynch declined the offer to direct Jedi in favor […]
The author reminisces about their time as a postdoc at MIT’s Computer Science department, highlighting the vibrant and intellectually stimulating atmosphere. The unique and surprising details include the extravagant Stata Center designed by Frank Gehry, the constant flow of free food, and research talks advertised on urinal posters. The author reflects on missed opportunities for […]
Word2vec is a powerful tool for learning word embeddings, with its success attributed to specific architecture decisions. By transferring these choices to traditional distributional methods, they can compete with popular word embedding techniques. This post dives into the reasons behind word2vec’s success and its relationship with traditional models, such as GloVe. The author explores different […]
Register allocation is the process of deciding how to map program variables onto a fixed set of registers. The canonical approach, graph coloring, was proposed in 1981, with countless other approaches explored since then. Compilers transform programs into single static assignment form, breaking variables into unique names, and potentially introducing auxiliary variables for temporaries. Assigning […]
George Eliot, also known as Mary Ann Evans, was a key writer of Victorian England, with works like The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch. Surprisingly, her early exploration of AI and society in her 1879 work Impressions of Theophrastus Such has largely been overlooked. In the book, she delves into the potential impact of […]