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Parents in Greystones, Ireland, have implemented a voluntary smartphone ban for primary school-aged children in an effort to curb anxiety and exposure to unsuitable content. The ban has won support from parents’ associations across the area’s eight primary schools, and is meant to be enforced not only at school, but also at home. The ban […]
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The author discusses their desire to automate their home and the challenges they faced due to complexity and high prices from vendors. After purchasing smart devices, they were underwhelmed with the limitations of available apps and sought out a more customizable solution. They settled on using Lua and the Mako Server to create their own […]
An anonymous post on 4chan has led to a discovery about the perplexing superpermutation problem, or how long a list of any given series of numbers must be such that it can include every possible order of that series. Australian science fiction author Greg Egan used the 4chan post to establish a new upper bound for […]
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A new survey conducted by anti-piracy group Rights Alliance shows that despite lawsuits and public calls to avoid piracy, over 50% of Danish students find it acceptable to use pirated textbooks. The majority of the survey participants were already aware of the illegal nature of book piracy, however, this fact has only served to have […]
MSI has unveiled the world’s first USB-4 expansion card at Computex this week. The add-in card includes two DisplayPort connections and two USB-C outputs with a power delivery of up to 100W. The primary USB-C port allows fast charging, which should suffice for some laptops, tablets and handheld gaming consoles. TechPowerUp reports that both ports […]
DreamBerd is a programming language with unique features that were recently highlighted in the Future of Code podcast. DreamBerd language supports exclamation marks, semi-colons, and four types of declarations with four different variables. New features include lifetime, integer types, class, use signals, and AI automatic insertion. DreamBerd language has its surprising feature of doing away […]
Outside magazine has published an article on Peter Kaestner, one of the world’s top birders aiming to be the first person to see 10,000 bird species. Currently ranked number one on Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird, his goal is an obsession born out of decades-long passion, and the list of birds he is yet to […]
The latest AI report discusses the lag of open-source models, such as Alpaca, which have mostly imitated ChatGPT. The report proposes that the open-source community should consider improving LLM training and RLHF to make progress. However, some AI influencers have overhyped their capabilities, resulting in failed AutoGPT experiments. Despite this, the report acknowledges that more […]
Track ballast are the rough stones found under and alongside railway tracks that form the bed on which sleepers are laid, helping to maintain railway tracks and ensure the safety of the railway vehicles travelling along them. They are extremely rough and sharp-edged, ensuring that the stones do not move when a train passes over, […]