Archaeologists exploring northern Poland’s Tuchola Forest made a surprising discovery near Grzybek, uncovering a German soldier’s grave from WWII, along with Mesolithic tools dating back 9,000 years. The excavations also revealed Neolithic pottery and coins from various periods, including a rare Byzantine coin from Emperor Basil II’s reign. These findings shed light on the area’s […]
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Ash Vardanian, the founder of Unum, discusses the untapped potential of modern CPUs in performing hyper-scalar operations through SIMD parallel processing. Highlighting the challenges in writing parallel operations, he shares insights from implementing SIMD kernels in the SimSIMD library. A surprising application of cosine similarity is showcased in various fields like farming robots and climate […]
A new “reasoning” AI model, QwQ-32B-Preview, developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team, is challenging OpenAI’s models in performance benchmarks. With 32.5 billion parameters, this model can solve logic puzzles and challenging math questions, although it may struggle with common sense reasoning and language switches. QwQ-32B-Preview can fact-check itself and avoid pitfalls, but this also means it […]
The article delves into the fascinating world of LEGO UX design, drawing parallels between the design of LEGO interfaces and real-life interfaces such as aircraft cockpits and car dashboards. It discusses the importance of differentiation in interface design, citing historical examples like the B-17 bomber crash landings and modern-day issues like Ford recalls due to […]
Exciting news from the Prometheus Team – Prometheus Version 3.0 is now available, the first major release in 7 years! The new version comes with a brand-new UI, UTF-8 support for metric and label names, improvements in Remote-Write protocol, OTLP support, and the introduction of Native Histograms. While maintaining stability and compatibility, Prometheus 3.0 has […]
In this article from 9to5Mac, the author discusses the pricing of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad and Mac, noting the surprising release date and lack of subscription pricing for the Mac versions. They highlight the trend towards subscription models for creative tools, exemplified by Adobe’s Creative Cloud bundle. The author speculates on […]
Fintech companies need to be meticulous with their money tracking, a lesson learned the hard way by a stock trading startup that constantly lost a few cents per transaction. Despite the importance of accuracy, they neglected to implement a double-entry accounting system, leading to frustrated users and customer support overload. This experience led to a […]
The system prioritizes tasks based on their impact on the user’s experience, giving higher priority to work that directly affects the user, such as UI updates. Assigning Quality of Service (QoS) classes to your app’s tasks helps the system schedule work effectively, balancing responsiveness and energy efficiency. QoS classes categorize tasks into four primary levels: […]
Borgo is a new programming language that compiles to Go, integrating features like algebraic data types, structs, and error handling. It offers unique functionalities such as tuples, multiline strings, and automatic type inference for collections. Control flow mirrors Go’s iteration concepts but with added support for (index, element) pairs. Borgo also simplifies method declarations and […]
The recent ruling allows The Intercept’s DMCA claim against OpenAI to move forward in court. Despite dismissing claims against Microsoft, the judge’s decision sets a precedent for potential legal action by digital publishers. The Intercept’s case prompted a novel legal strategy for news publishers to take on OpenAI, based on allegations of copyright infringement and […]