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Android and Chrome need on-device AI capabilities. Google can't lock down those weights like it can with server-side ML. So it's easier to just release those models as open source …

How does this compare to Claude Managed Agents?

I had to double check that this wasn't an April Fools joke. The GitHub project has commits from 2 weeks ago, so it's not. Looking more closely though, this looks a lot like the Goo…

I looked around the repository, and it looks like it's just 3 regexes to strip whitespace or filler words: https://github.com/ARPAHLS/skillware/blob/main/skills/optimi...

Years ago, my college multi variable calculus and linear algebra courses were both taught primarily using course materials that were interactive Mathematica Notebooks. We had acces…

Not really new news: https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-space-force-contract (Oct 2023)

Those same companies often invest in accessibility for vision-impaired users. I'm not sure you need a screen capture to scrape content when the site is designed to be navigable wit…

For anyone else who was confused to see a paper use the same name as a commercial product, it looks like Google Gemini was announced in May, whereas this was submitted to SOSP that…

GPU performance per dollar is only competitive for specific workloads. For extremely large scale compute, getting enough data center GPUs can also be challenging.

What a convenient source of liquidity for the various drug cartels in El Salvador who need to launder their money.

For all the hate that Java tends to get, the language natively supports this distinction between: * Expected errors - Checked Exceptions * Unexpected errors - Unchecked Exceptions …

I think they should have let him publish the paper. We've seen time and again that various trends in ML turn out to have actually been dead-ends. A few examples: https://arxiv.org/…

This is literally the 'O' in SOLID. The key idea is to break code into "chunks" that each do one thing. Then, if you have to add a new feature, it goes into another chunk, instead …

Microservices is just OOP/dependency-injection, but with RPCs instead of function calls. The same criticisms for microservices (claims that it adds complexity, or too many pieces) …

It's not so much the existence of the flag, itself, but rather using an if-statement at the deepest-level of the call stack to conditionally modify behavior. This talk gives a grea…

If you replace the word "bonus" with "promo", then you unfortunately get an eerily-accurate reflection of the state of FAANG companies.

The author titled one of the sections "Midpoint circle algorithm". There happens to be a Wikipedia page on "Midpoint circle algorithm": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circl…

> unless you have some indication people are increasingly picking the competitor over you, or especially and more simply leaving you in favour of the competitor. If this happens, y…

I'd bet someone just wanted to teach a course for fun and without compensation, but they had to formalize it and pose an actual job listing online for a month. Probably explains wh…

There's a 2016 CppCon talk here about making C++ Modules work at scale for Google's 100Mloc mono repo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFNpBfemDI So, apparently it can work. I don…

If generalized to 2D (and over the unit sphere), you'd get Google's S2 library ( https://s2geometry.io/ ). In 3D, the same can be done with morton codes (or a 3D hilbert curve) to …

I wouldn't be surprised if Google's TPU's pushed them far over the edge on this. I'd bet TPUs running inference for Ads models can basically print money for the company. They've al…

CLion (and other IDEs) have pretty good vim plugins: IdeaVim, VsVim , Vrapper. They're not perfect, but I also made the switch from vim to CLion and never looked back. With a half-…