Noise Explorer is a powerful online engine for designing and exploring Noise Handshake Patterns based on the Noise Protocol Framework. It allows users to create and validate their designs, generate formal verification models using ProVerif, and explore a compendium of formal verification results. This tool also enables the automatic generation of secure software implementations in […]
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In a groundbreaking press release on March 5, 2025, Apple introduced the new Mac Studio, their most powerful creation yet, featuring two groundbreaking chips – M4 Max and M3 Ultra. With Thunderbolt 5, up to 512GB of unified memory, and 16TB SSD storage, this compact pro desktop provides extreme performance capabilities for professional workflows. The […]
Jack Greenberg announces the expansion of YouTube Premium Lite to US users, offering ad-free viewing for $7.99 per month. The platform has over 125 million subscribers globally. Premium Lite is designed for viewers who want to watch most videos ad-free, with a focus on gaming, comedy, cooking, and learning content. The Premium plan is recommended […]
To celebrate 50k subscribers, Product for Engineers shares the 50 most important lessons learned about building successful products. Small teams with autonomy can excel. Trust, transparency, and feedback are crucial. Your product must align with your ideal customer profile. Building a great product goes beyond functionality to include branding, website experience, and market fit. Pivoting […]
Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton have been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their groundbreaking work in reinforcement learning. This technology involves learning from rewards, building on ideas from animal training and Alan Turing’s pioneering work in the field of AI. Barto and Sutton’s algorithms laid the foundation for advancements in […]
The author shares their journey of building BeanHub, an open-source Beancount-based accounting book software. They emphasize the importance of creating products that meet personal needs and the joy of automating accounting tasks. They discuss the challenges faced and the development of various tools like beancount-parser and beanhub-import. The author highlights the decision to open-source multiple […]
Apple has introduced the groundbreaking M3 Ultra chip, offering unparalleled performance with a 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, and double the Neural Engine cores. The chip boasts Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, supports up to 512GB of unified memory, and is built using the innovative UltraFusion packaging architecture. With up to 2.6x faster performance than previous models, the […]
The author is working through a book on building a large language model and sharing insights and struggles in a blog post series. The latest post covers implementing self-attention with trainable weights, a key aspect of transformer-based language models. The author dives into details of how attention mechanisms work, explaining concepts like projection matrices and […]
Cobalt released “RaQ 3” Linux OS in 1999, tailored for their network appliances. Initially popular with ISPs and small businesses, this port was based on Red Hat 6.1. A Retrocomputing YouTuber, “The Phintage Collector,” then adapted it for Virtualbox. Notably, the default login credentials are admin/admin, and root access can be achieved easily. The OS […]
This paper introduces a framework called NL2FOL which automates the process of translating natural language into First-Order Logic using Large Language Models. By incorporating implicit background knowledge and utilizing SMT solvers, NL2FOL can detect logical fallacies and provide interpretable insights into the reasoning process. Surprisingly, this neurosymbolic approach achieves strong performance on various datasets without […]