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The tiny corp is a new computer company focused on competing with established players in the AI chip market. The company’s goal is to “commoditize the petaflop” and provide accessible and affordable computing power to the masses. The founder started tinygrad as a toy project to teach himself about neural networks, but it has grown […]
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In a recent study published in Nature, a team of researchers including two UC Santa Cruz professors and a former UCSC grad student found that comb jellies, a marine invertebrate, are the most distantly related to all other animals, making them the earliest lineage to branch off the animal tree of life. The research resolves […]
Pixian.AI is a background removal service that can work on a wide range of image types including photos of people, objects, artworks, logos and scanned images. The service supports JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF and WebP file formats, with PNG as the output. The website image pixel size is limited to 8 megapixels, while the API […]
Since the launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, calls, texts, and chats have significantly increased, resulting in more than 4 million total contacts over a ten-month period. However, concerns have arisen that people who contact the service are still being subjected to geolocation tracing of their phone, computer, or mobile device, as well […]
The “fly-tailscale-exit” repo provides a way to set up a globally distributed VPN service using tailscale and fly.io. With this setup, users can instantly scale up or down nodes, choose where their traffic exits to, and enjoy solid connections worldwide. While the setup and the first 160GB of traffic each month are free, this approach […]
Aayush Jain, a recent UCLA computer graduate and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has received the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation on “Indistinguishability Obfuscation,” which established the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectures. Software obfuscation is important as it transforms source code to make it unintelligible without […]
The author shares their story of trying to recover priceless data from a tape containing the final source code for Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge. They explain that the tape was written using OnStream technology, which had a dedicated data processing chip and custom hardware, making it difficult to read the data without a compatible tape […]
The Thunderbird team has revealed a new logo, designed by Jon Hicks who created the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos. The redesign comes after years of being viewed as stagnant, as Thunderbird sees a resurgence in popularity. The software is evolving into something more modern, while retaining its powerful customization capabilities. The new logo represents […]
QLoRA is a new finetuning approach that allows a 65B parameter model to be finetuned on a single 48GB GPU while maintaining full 16-bit finetuning task performance. Using QLoRA, researchers were able to finetune more than 1,000 models, providing state-of-the-art results on various chatbot performance evaluations. The QLoRA approach introduces several innovations to save memory, […]