The CAP Theorem states that a distributed system cannot be consistent, available, and partition tolerant all at once. A simple distributed system example with two servers, $G_1$ and $G_2$, is used to explain these properties. Consistency requires that any read operation after a write operation returns that value or a later write. Availability means that […]
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Film cans containing unseen Thunderbirds footage, including an alternative version of an episode, were discovered in a garden shed in Buckinghamshire. The cans were found by the family of an editor who worked on the show. The footage, filmed on the Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire in the 1960s, is now in the hands of […]
The Xet team at Hugging Face is dedicated to enhancing the Hub’s storage architecture efficiency to streamline data and model storage for users. With a substantial amount of data hosted by Hugging Face, optimizing Parquet files is a priority due to its importance in reducing storage space. Deduplication is crucial for updating datasets efficiently, especially […]
The development of gccrs has included reusing components and crates from the official Rust compiler to ensure the same behavior during critical compiler passes. One key component added to gccrs is rustc_parse_format, which parses Rust format strings for string formatting and inline assembly. By integrating these components, gccrs can properly call into core::fmt functions for […]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their groundbreaking work in enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks. Don’t miss the Nobel Prize announcements from 7-14 October, watch the live stream to stay updated. You can filter announcements by category like Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, […]
Summary: The author introduces the Money library in Kotlin to simplify monetary calculations, allocations, and rounding issues in coding. The library supports mathematical operations with monetary amounts, calculations with percentages, and allocation, making it easy to model various use cases. Unique features include automatic allocation to ensure no loss or gain of money, the ability […]
Diff Transformer addresses the issue of Transformer overallocating attention to irrelevant context by introducing a differential attention mechanism that focuses on relevant context and cancels noise. The subtraction of separate softmax attention maps promotes sparse attention patterns, leading to better performance in language modeling compared to Transformer. Diff Transformer also offers advantages in long-context modeling, […]
Charlie Kelly, a keen hillwalker, went missing in September 2023 while climbing Creise, a high peak in Scotland. Despite a massive search effort involving various agencies and volunteers, he was not found until six weeks later. His body was located using a new software developed by Dan Roach and David Binks, which analyzed drone images […]
PTXdist is a user-friendly Linux distribution build tool for creating embedded Linux systems with a simple configuration interface. While it starts off simple, PTXdist offers in-depth customization options for packages and system configurations. The Documentation is a helpful starting point, and the DistroKit is available for common platforms like BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi. The Barebox […]
This project provides an RKRM-style reference of the AmigaDOS subsystem of AmigaOs, specifically focusing on dos.library, handlers, file-systems, and structures. It is licensed under the THOR-Software License v3. With 66 stars and 3 forks on GitHub, this repository offers detailed documentation for those interested in AmigaDOS. The majority of the content is in TeX format, […]