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Using Chinese could lead to a small amount of gains, but it's nowhere near as drastic as you'd think Putting aside the question of whether English's larger training corpus would be…

It’s heartening that there are people who find the problem you described “fun” Writing a FastAPI websocket that reads from a redis pubsub is a documentation-less flailfest

A relative of mine recently suffered a serious injury to their dominant (right) arm, which will have a long recovery period (likely several months). Ideally finger movement will be…

It sounds like their vision for space-based data centers presupposes nearly-free energy costs, delivered via a colossal solar farm made possible by falling launch costs. Temporaril…

A competitive geoguesser clearly got there through memorizing copious internet searching. So comparing knowledge retained in the trained model to knowledge retained in the brain fe…

> These companions can take a variety of forms — in the 2004 study, which looked at 100 6- and 7-year olds, 57 percent of imaginary friends were human, 41 percent were animals, and…

In C# you can do string foo = "bar"; string nameOfFoo = nameof(foo); // “foo” Kinda nice for iterating through lists of variables and saving them to a key/value map

At work I’ve recently moved from a Node/TS monolith to “Python+TS react in a sea of .NET microservices I debug and contribute to” It’s been the second time in my career I’ve been s…

Those diapers say 10-18lbs on the package, but they actually hold waaaaay less urine than that —First dad joke my brother in law bestowed upon me after my daughter was born

My teenage niece is getting solid at chess, but I can still beat her handily. So we came up with a fun handicap the last few times we’ve played: Every third turn, my four year old …

Another application of GLSL/SDL: you can make custom shader materials for yourself in ThreeJS using the ShaderMaterial. You write the GLSL code in a string within the material and …

A single person sifting through 15,000,000 pounds of trash at a rate of one pound per minute would take 28 restless years But finding one of 2^256 private keys would take millions …

> All of us must navigate the trade-off between “me” and “we.” A famous Talmudic quote states: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?” We …

Wait I remember those ads and I’m now confused. If vision-restoring eye transplants are the novel domain of futuristic moonshot research, how did Jerry Orbach’s eye donation give t…

If a malicious party has access to the API key, it should be revoked regardless

For the last badge, it wasn't masterful strategy: I played until I got lucky with an overpowered Ring of Wealth run, and farmed the dwarven floors for like 3 days before breezing t…