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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 […]
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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, […]
Despite the Fair Labor Standards Act being passed during the New Deal, child labor never quite disappeared from the United States. Agricultural work remained exempt from many restrictions and improvements to enforcement have been uneven. Now, child labor is on the rise in America. The Department of Labor highlights that the number of minors employed […]
The interaction between trivial relocatability and Bloomberg’s polymorphic allocator model, PMR, has sparked interest in recent paper submissions. PMR allows for the creation of local memory arenas that can be associated with a specific object upon creation, ensuring that all allocations related to that object come from the same memory arena. However, the PMR has […]
The Nordic region is home to many successful startups, including Spotify, Klarna, and Unity. While Sweden usually gets the spotlight, other countries like Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland also have their fair share of success stories. Iceland, in particular, has a vibrant startup ecosystem, with numerous new companies emerging and an increasing organization to support […]
Satirical article warns against using Managed NAT Gateway, a service that lets users egress traffic from a VPC to the public internet. The service costs $0.07 per gigabyte, and is sometimes not given much thought as a necessary expense. The author suggests using Tailscale exit nodes instead of Managed NAT Gateway for egress-heavy workloads. Additionally, […]
The article introduces a new decentralized application to query the complete dump of RARBG hosted on IPFS in a fully decentralized manner. Latency can be higher than usual, especially on the first use, and search rate-limiting by gateways might cause some consecutive searches to fail. The article suggests using Brave or Opera for browsers with […]
Researchers at ENSTA Paris have created a loudspeaker without a magnet or copper coil, instead using a simple dielectric elastomer membrane and a conductive grease. Through adding a transmitted electrical signal, the flexible material reacts causing the necessary vibrations to send sound waves, optimising efficiency, spectral balance, and linearity. The newly designed speaker is much […]
The cost of cleaning up almost a quarter of a million oil wells in California could be about $21.5bn, more than three times greater than the $6.3bn of estimated future profits from oil and gas production, according to a report commissioned by Carbon Tracker Initiative, a financial think tank. Author of the study, Dwayne Purvis, said […]