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JabRef before version 3 was pretty compact and snappy. It's essentially editing a text file for taking notes, except you can search through, download arxiv and journal articles (with LocalCopy extension), launch the associated PDFs.
It's interesting that the male voices are all so much worse than the female voices (several are quite good). There is bias in machine learning, but I wonder whether there is also systematically more training data of female speech?
I'd be interesting to quantify the cost of inconsistent funding to the supply chain.
That there were 0 equivalent products to the first iPhone is just a blatent lie. But repeated often enough, it overrides memory and becomes true, I guess.
What does it mean that that I feel my anxiety in my gut? And that I clearly feel when I’m speaking from my head or my heart (or both)? [...] What does it mean that that I feel my anxiety in my gut? And that I clearly feel when I’m speaking from my head or my heart (or both)?
An unjustified logical jump here seems to be that where you feel your thoughts and feelings are coming from is where the responsible neurons are. The assignment of the feeling of origin may be a separate mechanism.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visted Europe and openly said to Kaja Kallas, the European Union's foreign-policy chief and other EU ministers: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not want to see Russia defeated in Ukraine, fearing that the U.S. would then shift its full attention toward Beijing.
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/10/28/china-is-... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyxk4ywppzo
Now apply to each topic at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_a...
A browser using 32 GB for 8 tab isn't necessarily wasteful, there is a lot of caching one can do to make back/forward buttons extremely fast. It would be wasteful to not allocate that memory if it is otherwise free and unused. Usually browsers use up what is available. The more interesting metric would be whether starting another high-RAM application will lead the browser to give up most of the 32 GB.
And if I don't know, can I know?
I'm surprised Firefox Multi-Account Containers isn't mentioned. Seems ideal to me to keep Web Universes separate.
Unit and Integration testing is great for decreasing cognitive load too. When you are staring at an error stack trace of a complex code base, and go through mentally what could have played out to cause this, it's great to have confidence in components due to testing. Hypothesis/QuickCheck is allows dropping entire classes of worries.
The words "good" and "very bad" indicate that the world is less important to that person than themselves. I'd be okay with a bit of personal harm if it helps against climate change.
Ultra-processed food does not have an agreed-upon definition, and is the new "junk food" with the pretense of being more scientific. Is bread and pizza ultra-processed food? Studies do not agree on their definitions, sometimes including ingredient lists, sometimes not, sometimes it is required that the product is made in small shops with love and not in large factories. The mechanism of how ultra-processed food are supposed to cause harm remains undefined.
Looking at the code, this converts PDF pages to images, then transcribes each image. I might have expected a pdftotext post-processor. The complexity of PDF I guess ...
there’s also an official, built-in map of the planet, carefully crafted
Is there a mathematical framework for how to optimize a map for gameplay to be most enjoyable?
I don't know if I should trust and run this code. If it was associated to Mozilla I would. It says it is a Mozilla Builders project, but https://builders.mozilla.org/projects/ does not list it. I don't see a way to verify that localscore.ai is associated with Mozilla.
Yes. Meteorites are being systematically collected to get impact statistics in areas that are tectonically undisturbed. They seem equally good places: Antarctica, Atacama desert, Greenland. In terms of bandwidth and maintainance they seem preferable to the moon. See the Arctic Code Vault in Svalbard.
and MINIX is the most common operating system, thanks to Intel https://www.networkworld.com/article/964650/minix-the-most-p... :)
As far as I am aware, there is no symbolic computing tool yet for probability distributions? For example, multiplying two multivariate Gaussian PDFs together and getting the covariance matrix out. Or defining all the ingredients for a Kalman filter (prediction model and observing process) and getting the necessary formulas out (as in sympy's lambdify).
Step 10, add the bug as a test to the CI to prevent regressions? Make sure the CI fails before the fix and works after the fix.
Wake me up when it supports numpy&scipy.
I guess this implies that rescaling the window, or rotating your phone, will not update the view. Then you'd have to reload the page. That trade-off seems okay to me.
Doesn't seem to be open source: https://opensource.org/licenses?ls=affinity
In addition to the copy_file_range discussion at the end, it would be great to be able to applying deduplication to selected files, identified by searching the filesystem for say >1MB files which have identical hash.
A recent similar example is dying of "Excited Delirium" https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4951, which was made up by police and the taser manufacturer
What isn’t clear, in retrospect or otherwise, is why companies/apps/services need to keep learning this lesson.
They are trying to find a funding model that makes them independent from Google.
- Building a fast, privacy-oriented browser that keeps up with web standards and fixes security bugs takes people, organisation and therefore money. Yes, much more than that CEO salary.
- No one wants to buy for a browser.
- No one wants to pay a subscription fee for a browser.
So you are left with ads. Mozilla is trying to find a balance there between privacy and ads with a clearing house approach. People who hate ads out of principle scream. How should browser development be funded?
It is obvious why Firefox does this though; they have no income otherwise like Google does. Firefox users somehow think that using is "supporting" Mozilla/Firefox, but it is not, and they would not pay for the browser, or pay a subscription free. Privacy-friendly ads are a reasonable way for Mozilla to survive long-term -- if they are indeed privacy-friendly.
Ultimately you probably either need a clean-room NGO that ensures the data cannot be de-anonymized, or accept that ad impact counting is BS anyway and only measure profit increases across A/B ad phases.
The thread does not explain whether the behaviour of Firefox was actually changed when they added the check box, or if it is a new option to opt-out of something that could not be opted-out before.
There was a very short window of time when you could make very advanced queries over your Facebook friends graph. It was awesome.
Not sure how taking off all the safety and exploring "the best model" freely without considering ethics is a "scientific" approach. Computer scientists like us should think about the ethical and societal impacts of what they are building. At many universities, it is part of the curriculum.
After reading so many GPT news item, I was confused what APT is, no explanation on the page, no link ... took me a while to realise it is about debian linux' packaging tool apt.