SDXL Turbo, Stability AI’s new text-to-image mode, is now available. The model incorporates an innovative technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), which allows for real-time text-to-image synthesis while maintaining high fidelity. The research paper detailing the ADD method is available for those interested in technical details. SDXL Turbo builds on the success of previous diffusion […]
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Wozmon x86-64 is an instruction by instruction rewrite of Wozmon in x86-64 for the BareMetal kernel. The main changes were made to accommodate 64-bit addresses. The script in this repository requires a Debian-based Linux system or macOS with Homebrew. NASM, an assembly compiler, is needed to build the loader, kernel, and Wozmon. The memory layout […]
The existence of the word “kamilos” meaning “rope” in ancient Greek is highly disputed, and there is little evidence to support it. The myth surrounding this word is connected to a biblical passage about a camel going through the eye of a needle. Some believe that “camel” was originally meant to be “rope,” but these […]
Scientists have successfully grown dolomite in a laboratory setting for the first time, thanks to a new theory developed through atomic simulations. Dolomite is a common mineral found in various geological formations but has proven difficult to recreate in a lab. The breakthrough came from removing defects in the mineral’s structure during growth. Typically, calcium […]
Unit testing on an 8-bit CPU can be challenging, especially without access to a debugger or advanced tooling. The author shares their experience of writing a maze-drawing program and the struggles they faced in locating a bug. They question the effectiveness of unit testing in their specific environment and programming language, highlighting the lack of […]
The ONNX Model Zoo is a collection of pre-trained machine learning models in the ONNX format that have been contributed by community members. These models cover a range of tasks such as image classification, object detection, speech recognition, machine comprehension, and more. Each model in the zoo is accompanied by Jupyter notebooks for training and […]
Okta Inc. recently revealed that the extent of a recent security breach was more extensive than initially reported. The hackers who infiltrated the company’s network managed to obtain information on all users of its customer support system, not just the 1% initially believed to be affected. In a letter to customers, Okta explained that the […]
Julia Evans recently asked if anyone had created a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where each commit is a folder containing all the files in that commit. I actually did something similar when I was experimenting with FUSE, but I never shared it because the build process was annoying and it didn’t seem […]
The author, a first-time homeowner and engineer, suggests that writing technical documentation for houses would be beneficial. They mention having numerous questions about their house and realizing the need for a user manual-like documentation. The author recommends using the Diátaxis framework to organize documentation into tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanations. They also stress […]
MeshGPT is an innovative approach to generating triangle meshes that emulates the compactness found in artist-created meshes, unlike the dense meshes obtained from neural fields. Taking inspiration from advancements in large language models, MeshGPT employs a sequence-based approach to generate triangle meshes by encoding local mesh geometry and topology into latent quantized embeddings, which are […]