A study from the University of South Australia reveals the importance of a magnesium-rich diet in reducing the risk of DNA damage and chronic diseases. Low magnesium levels lead to high levels of the genotoxic amino acid homocysteine, which can damage genes and increase susceptibility to various disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, and diabetes. Eating […]

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In November 2024, CockroachDB Enterprise will transition to a single licensing model, eliminating the Core offering. This change aims to simplify the user experience, provide enterprise capabilities to all customers, and allow smaller businesses to use CockroachDB for free. Notably, the new Enterprise Free Tier will offer enhanced features, such as follower reads, disaster recovery, […]

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The A2FPGA A2N20 v2.0 is a unique HD video and Mockingboard-compatible sound card for Apple II computers. It uses modern FPGA technology to accurately interface with the Apple II bus, providing crisp 720p 60Hz HD display and support for various popular peripheral cards. The card has been tested with multiple Apple II models and enhances […]

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Efficient polygonal shape filtering can be achieved with Green’s theorem and piecewise-polynomial filters like box, bilinear, and bicubic. By breaking and evaluating polygons into smaller sections, we can compute exact coverage for anti-aliasing, revealing illustrative insights into polygonal analysis on the GPU. Super-sampling can improve sharp results but may lead to over-coverage in certain cases. […]

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Cobol REKT is a toolkit evolving to aid in reverse engineering legacy Cobol code. It offers capabilities such as flowchart generation, parse tree generation, control flow tree generation, integration with Neo4J, OpenAI GPT for node summarization, and more. The toolkit, consisting of Java and Python components, aims to be embedded in reverse engineering workflows. It […]

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Nomad Network offers off-grid communication with strong encryption, extreme privacy, and zero-handover of data. Users can create private platforms on Reticulum with LXMF, enabling communication over various mediums like packet radio and fiber optics without needing the public internet. Notable features include encrypted messaging, minimal infrastructure mesh communication, and node-side generated pages. Installation is simple […]

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Large machine learning models like LLMs rely on quantization techniques such as GPTQ, AWQ, and HQQ to reduce resource usage. By storing multiple elements in a single 32-bit element through bitpacking, models can effectively operate at low bits, even 2-bit. Gemlite offers user-friendly CUDA kernels for customized quantization methods, enabling significant speed improvements without compromising […]

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New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has approved Kim Dotcom’s extradition to the US, where he faces serious charges related to copyright infringement and money laundering, potentially leading to decades in prison. Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, has vowed to fight on and not leave the country. This decision comes after years of legal battles […]

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The website offers an AI-powered multimodal project focused on music, generating chords, beats, lyrics, melody, and tabs for any song. Using various transformer models like U-Net and Segment-Net, the platform can detect music chords, beats, tempo, pitch, structure, and lyrics, supporting multiple languages. Users can generate playable sheet music with editing capabilities. Another feature is […]

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Tom Leinster recently shared his notes on Galois theory, created for Edinburgh’s undergraduate course from 2021 to 2023. The notes, along with videos and multiple choice questions, offer a comprehensive understanding of the covered material. Interestingly, while Leinster has shared notes on various topics before, the Galois theory notes have gained unexpected popularity compared to […]

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