In an exciting experiment, I’ve created a solar-powered, self-hosted website using a Raspberry Pi on our roof deck in Boston to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting. The solar panel and battery setup is a key highlight, allowing for a magical experience of solar energy powering the Raspberry Pi. While the website may go down on […]
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For the past seven years, the author has been fighting for public access to 3D scans of cultural heritage in French national museums. Despite resistance from organizations like the Rodin Museum, who have refused to share their scans due to fears of competition and trade secrets, the author has successfully secured access to some scans. […]
Jacob_Ray_Pehringer explains his journey of wanting to enhance the power of Go’s concurrency with SIMD, allowing for parallel number crunching capabilities at the hardware level. Discovering that Go’s compiler does not utilize SIMD, he took matters into his own hands and created his own SIMD package with a focus on arithmetic and bitwise operations. He […]
Barqawiz created a collection of Tamagotchi characters designed to give AI assistants their own identity. The project, inspired by the classic Tamagotchi device, features virtual characters drawn with JavaScript. Users can interact with the characters through manual mode by clicking on buttons or in AI-controlled mode by connecting with an AI assistant to automatically update […]
The content discusses the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in reasoning due to their autoregressive architecture, proposing different techniques to enhance their reasoning capabilities. One surprising approach is using Prolog as an intermediate language to aid LLMs in generating accurate code for solving problems. The “Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language” paper introduces a neurosymbolic […]
DHL, the international delivery company, started by giving free plane tickets to travelers in exchange for carrying important documents in their luggage. The company utilized spare space in suitcases to transport high-value papers, avoiding delays caused by containerization in the 1960s. This clever system revolutionized the delivery of critical business documents and allowed goods to […]
SOFA is a hacker/art collective founded on the principle of starting as many projects as possible without the need to finish them. The goal is to acquire experiences, with entertainment and increased skills as side effects. To get started with SOFA, one can read lots of books, start new code or art projects, or learn […]
NotebookLM, powered by Gemini 1.5, helps users comprehend complex information by becoming experts on uploaded sources. The new customizable Audio Overviews feature allows users to guide the conversation and listen to audio while using NotebookLM. The upcoming NotebookLM Business version, offered via Google Workspace, will cater to businesses and organizations while prioritizing data privacy and […]
In this cutting-edge paper, the authors present a groundbreaking approach to achieving Grandmaster-level chess performance without traditional search algorithms. Instead, they utilize a massive 270M parameter transformer model trained on a dataset of 10 million chess games annotated with action-values from Stockfish 16. Surprisingly, their model surpasses AlphaZero and GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct in performance without domain-specific modifications […]
Sen. John Kennedy and Sen. Jeff Merkley have introduced the Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2023 to block the use of facial recognition technology by the TSA at airports. The bill aims to stop the government from storing travelers’ biodata and infringing on their privacy. Kennedy believes the TSA program is a step towards a […]