Airbnb CEO, Brian Chesky, has warned travelers that hotel rates in New York City are likely to increase following a “de facto ban” on Airbnb in the city. The restrictions on Airbnb in the city limit stays to two guests and require the host to be present for stays shorter than 30 days. Chesky believes […]
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In this web content, the author shares their journey of learning to build generative ML models from scratch and using those models to teach a computer to create fonts. They introduce their project called ‘FontoGen’ and showcase examples of fonts generated by the model. The author discusses the challenges of generating fonts and describes the […]
Database schema migrations can be challenging, often leading to disruptions and errors in applications that rely on the database. Managing multiple steps and unexpected database locks can make migrations a logistical nightmare. Additionally, rolling back to a previous state is rarely straightforward. In order to address these issues, Xata has created pgroll, an open-source command-line […]
Update: Added support for Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Base, which can now run on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2. The challenge was running the large transformer model with almost 1 billion parameters on a microcomputer with only 512MB of RAM without using additional swap space or offloading results on disk. To achieve this, the author […]
The world needs computational social science, not just because of the AI revolution, but for other reasons as well. The author discusses the confusion surrounding CSS and whether it should be considered an academic discipline. They argue that while technology may change the methods used in social science, it cannot change the fundamental questions that […]
Slovenia has a rich history of beekeeping, with every village historically having at least one beekeeper. Today, approximately one in every 200 Slovenians tends to bee colonies. Slovenian beekeeper Peter Kozmus runs a honey farm with over 100 bee colonies and heads the breeding program for the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association. The unique AŽ hives, inspired […]
Redfin, a real estate company, has decided to end its support of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) due to two main reasons. Firstly, Redfin has been uncomfortable with NAR’s policies on commissions, and secondly, they are concerned about the alleged pattern of sexual harassment within NAR. Redfin had already resigned from the NAR board […]
Dish Network Corp. has recently incurred a hefty fine of $150,000 due to an incident involving a retired satellite being mistakenly left in an incorrect space location. This occurrence has raised concerns amongst US regulators about the escalating amount of debris circling Earth and the risk of potential accidents. The Federal Communications Commission has labeled […]
Years ago, the author was involved in the iOS tweak development scene, creating products and tools that modified iOS system behavior. They decided to write their own jailbreak to remove some of the mystery surrounding the process. After acquiring older iPhones and researching boot ROM vulnerabilities, they discovered limera1n, an exploit that allowed them to […]
The article discusses the importance of accurately forecasting the future behavior of road agents for safe planning in autonomous vehicles. The authors present a model called MotionLM, which represents continuous trajectories as sequences of discrete motion tokens and treats multi-agent motion prediction as a language modeling task. Unlike other models, MotionLM does not require anchors […]