GPT-4 was used to analyze the existence of unused three-letter and four-letter acronyms (TLAs) in the English language. The analysis revealed that there are still many TLAs and four-letter acronyms that have not been used in a nontrivial way. The first unused TLA is ‘CQK’, and there are 2,684 unused TLAs and 392,884 unused four-letter […]
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The FCC Commissioners have unanimously voted to amend the Amateur Radio Service rules, replacing the baud rate limit with a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limit, allowing for greater flexibility in data communications. The FCC aims to incentivize innovation and experimentation in the amateur radio bands by removing outdated restrictions and allowing licensees to use modern digital […]
Machine Learning for Beginners is a 12-week, 26-lesson curriculum offered by Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft. The curriculum focuses on classic machine learning using Scikit-learn as a library. It does not cover deep learning, which is included in another curriculum called ‘AI for Beginners’. The lessons in this curriculum incorporate data from different areas of […]
We have discovered a CPU vulnerability that occurs when redundant rex prefixes are added to an optimized rep movs operation. This glitch can cause unpredictable behavior such as branches to unexpected locations, ignored unconditional branches, and inaccurate recording of the instruction pointer. When multiple cores trigger this bug, the processor can report machine check exceptions […]
Apologies are in order, my dear hackfriends. I must confess that I have created yet another Scheme implementation, which may seem unnecessary, but hear me out. You see, I’ve been working on a new garbage collector called Whippet for Guile, a project I co-maintain. Whippet is meant to be embedded in the project itself, eventually […]
In their research article, the authors focus on the issue of extracting memorized training data from large language models (LLMs). However, they emphasize that the capabilities of these models in inferring personal attributes from text at inference time have increased significantly. They conduct a study using real Reddit profiles and demonstrate that current LLMs can […]
Centrus Energy has kick-started the first commercial domestic nuclear fuel production in the US in 70 years by delivering the first load of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel made at its Piketon, Ohio, plant to the Department of Energy (DOE). This specialized fuel is needed for the advanced reactors expected to go online in the […]
Summary: In this web content, the author discusses their observations of people using digital kiosks to order food instead of speaking to the person at the counter. They question whether modern technology is causing people to avoid talking to each other. The author mentions a book they are reading about the benefits of connecting with […]
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In Q3 2023, Backblaze monitored a total of 263,992 hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) in its data centers. The failure rates for SSDs are discussed in a separate review, but this report focuses on the 259,533 HDDs. The report includes quarterly and lifetime failure rates, as well as observations and insights. One […]