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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh.

Flies easily fly through the window if it's substantially brighter than the room.

The sponge design of SHA-3 makes it a CSPRNG basically. You can keep draining it after you fed the data in.

It's already happening. For example, ECMWF provides experimental forecasts by their own deep learning model, plus models from Deepmind, NVIDIA, and Huawai.

They perform several model runs with slightly different configurations and then compare the predictions to a reference period, currently 1991-2020. When they say "above average", m…

If anyone is interested in these seasonal forecasts, all major meteorological institutes upload theirs to https://www.wmolc.org , with new predictions coming out every month.

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. I finished it yesterday. It's a collection of articles the author wrote for The New Yorker around the middle of the last century. The storie…

If I understand it correctly, you are only attending preceding tokens in your paper. Can the constant bias matrix be made symmetric for unmasked tasks?

They still publish all their data free of charge and are required to do so by law. For weather forecast, they dump all parameters of their recent model runs. So I guess I'm saying …

The expensive stuff still bears the trademark of the brand, the lead designer, or the collection. It's more subtle, but ultimately the reason why people buy it. And some brands rea…

It's necessary to keep them sortable at byte level.

JPEG doesn't support transparency.

My rule of thumb is that once I start writing imperative LaTeX with loops and stuff, I'm almost always on the wrong path. Now, I might be missing some important corner cases, but b…

> dynamic snapping This release adds alignment and distribution snapping, it's mentioned in the full release notes: https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inksc...

Oof. Editorial illustrators are about to get automated.

Unlike nuclear power plants.

So basically modern Google without ads.

So cash not only grants people freedom and anonymity, it also creates local jobs instead of moving money as arbitrary transaction fees into the pockets of a credit card duopoly? So…

Also a Goosebumps book where the kids discover someone living in their school like this.

Memory safety is optional in Rust. It might not be obvious at the moment, because Rust is written by enthusiasts who enjoy fighting with the compiler until their code compiles, but…

The GDPR is a sensible legislation and no amount of FUD can change that. If you can't explain what you are doing with personal data, you shouldn't be allowed to handle it. You are …

The easiest fix would be to have reasonable privacy laws in the US.

The problem is that the designers of small icons already work with pixel-snapping and for complex graphics, dumb quantization will look and compress no worse. If you want to work o…

I must admit, I didn't consider that many US companies are incorporated in Delaware and otherwise hide their whereabouts. I checked the certificates of my bank and my tax authority…