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, […]
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 […]