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pgm.di.unipi.it 1mo ago

PGM-index:range searches, deletes, updates using orders of magnitude less space

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www.gov.uk 1mo ago

New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images

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pgm.di.unipi.it 1y ago

PGM-index learned data structure with lookup, range, updates with OOM less space

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arxiv.org 1y ago

Learned Indexes for a Google-Scale Disk-Based Database

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pgm.di.unipi.it 1y ago

PGM-index:range searches, deletes, updates using orders of magnitude less space

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dl.acm.org 1y ago

PGM-index: fully-dynamic compressed learned index with provable worst-case bound

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connect.mozilla.org 2y ago

X is not working on Firefox

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github.com 2y ago

Open-Source OpenGL/SDL2 Reimplementation of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

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stats.stackexchange.com 2y ago

Can any class of ML algorithms efficiently learn the modulo function (x mod y)?

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github.com 2y ago

Java to Objective-C Translator and Runtime

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github.com 2y ago

Tools for Editing Patches

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www.nasa.gov 2y ago

Aerogel Core Fission Fragment Rocket Engine

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arxiv.org 2y ago

Harnessing LLM in End-to-End Speech Recognition

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www.washingtonpost.com 2y ago

World’s most remote post office is hiring. Penguin counting required

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huggingface.co 3y ago

Falcon 40B-Instruct GGML

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www.postgresql.org 3y ago

Postgres Genetic Query Optimizer

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www.postgresql.org 3y ago

ECPG – Embedded SQL in C

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www.neowin.net 3y ago

VirtualBox 7 adds virtual TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot

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www.beveragedaily.com 4y ago

Plain packaging would knock billions off the value of beverage companies

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github.com 4y ago

Cortex Command – Open-Source

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stackoverflow.com 4y ago

Inlining of virtual functions (Clang vs. GCC)

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Fission-Fragment Rocket

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Arrow Information Paradox

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scitechdaily.com 4y ago

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars

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www.world-nuclear-news.org 4y ago

First commercial pebble-bed reactor connected to grid in China

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www.world-nuclear-news.org 4y ago

Demonstration HTR-PM connected to grid

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www.clinicaltrialsarena.com 4y ago

BCG vaccine shows effectiveness against Covid-19 in trial in India

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security.stackexchange.com 4y ago

How to extract pre-master keys in wireshark format from any OpenSSL application

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www.microsoft.com 4y ago

Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse (Extended Version)

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papers.ssrn.com 4y ago

Cooperation in Queueing Systems

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ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

Does encrypted memory give ECC-like detection benefit, along with rowhammer protection, for cheaper cost (only additional computation), and 100% reliable?

The latest moves from google are the damning smoking gun evidence that anti monopoly court ever needs. "Do this or else". Recaptcha, gmail, google suite, android, chrome, colab and even google play must be viable businesses on their own, separate from google ads machine. Gmail must start competing for users with other email providers. And, yes, recaptcha must pay its infrastructure cost in full only from recaptcha revenue. This is the good way to level playing field, silence all the critics and let air into the room.

Dolphin held a pleasant surprise: it could detect my iPhone when it was plugged in. This made it a snap to transfer files to and from my phone as the file manager granted full file access to the iPhone

Wait, what? Is this true? Since when?

1) 24/7 available super-competent personal assistant has tremendous value for any person who does something interesting or difficult and values personal time

2) llm-provided tax/legal advice alone was worth hundreds of euros for me

3) there is no easy way to capture all this value. I still think edge intelligence/autonomy has a way to pay for the rest of the party, because those will be physical things. People eagerly part with money for things. Governments and enterprises will maybe pay for cloud services, if the price will be right

The optimistic scenario for current ai bubble: long careful deflation, one flop at a time.

The cautious scenario of llm usage in daily life: in 36 years, it is invisible and everywhere. Every device has a neural chip. It replaced untold trillions of years of work, reshaped knowledge and artistic work, robotics, became something as boring as email, TV, SAP, or power cable today. Barely anyone is excited. Society is poor, but not hopelessly so.

Humanity forgotten LLMs and is hyping gene engineering.

You Are in a Box 1 year ago

Yes, interoperability, extensibility, composability and the tyranny of program author is a problem. JVM with runtime-loading of classes and it's once popular beans standard is one of closest approximations, known to me, of the most general "local" solution.

Yes, it's cumbersome and hacky and still limited. The beans idea lost popularity and mindshare.

I am questioning, how is this news? What about the other terabyte of text influenced by bias and opinion and human nature and clearly wrong, contradicts itself or in some other way very arguable.

Framing publishing falsehoods on internet as attempts to influence LLMs is true in same sense that inserts in a database attempts influence files on disk.

The real question is who authorized database access and how we believe the contents of table.

In general the better experience will command higher price, right. That is true, and by forcing same lowest level on everyone we are constructing artificial floor on how bad an experience can be.

Or at least ensuring that bad experience is so profitable that the competitor is ready to even pay the fee for violations.

Illegal markets operate in this territory. No consumer protection there, sorry.

I started to understand the question more, thank you for your comment

I am not getting it. The rule makes competition in markets higher. Because dollars flow to best offers faster. And thus improve economic situation, not only in markets affected by rule, but also on all other markets, in case customer wants to take his money elsewhere.

And on international scale, because more competitive companies presumably out-compete foreign competitors.

So, FTC needs some permission and review to make national economy money?

I am impressed by speed of the sound goalpost movement.

Few days ago Google released very competent summary generator, interpreter between 10-s of languages, gpt-3 class general purpose assistant. Working locally on modest hardware. On 5 years old laptop, no discrete GPU.

It alone potentially saves so much toil, so much stupid work.

We also finally “solved computer vision”. Read from PDF, read diagrams and tables.

Local vision models are much less impressive and need some care to use. Give it 2 years.

I don't know if we can overhype it when it archives holy grail level on some important tasks.

Confusing everyone about java license situation is another example.

I think lawnmower metaphor never was accurate or helped to get it.

Oracle is an alligator or a snake. A reptile. If you move, it will probably eat you alive. It wants to eat you, or part of you.

It also lives in the waterhole, hoarding an essential resource. Not guarding or developing it, just sitting there.

It is ancient and will never change.

It's not alligator's fault for being predator. It is it's nature

Everyone's pain tolerance is different. I am also very aware on stomach and kidney issues those drugs have.

Having said that, ketorolac is a very potent pain inhibitor, can be prescribed for 6 days, causes no dependence issues. Pretty sure can be prescribed more. Cheap, out of patent protection. Took it when broke my hand, it was a miracle of painkiller.

Yes. Chess engine is clever tree search at it's core. Which in turn is just loops, arithmetic and updating some data structures.

And every AI product in existence is the same. Map navigation, search engine ranking, even register allocation and query planning.

Thus they are not AI, they're algorithms.

The frontier is constantly moving.

Genuine question. Why country with so much freedoms tolerates this particular injustice so much.

Freedom to pay is very fundamental for free speech, I think courts and legislatures made this very very clear multiple times.

There are whole countries where you don't need Apple as intermediary to cancel any subscription without notice. In these countries it is up to companies to sue you if they think you are in wrong, and "they made it hard to cancel subscription" is basically all defence consumer ever needs.

So they never win.

So they never sue.

It is a bit like incandescent light was early selling point of electricity.

Stable odourless on-demand light was in short supply, so it helped to jump-start a new industry and network.

The real range of possible uses is near endless, for tech available today. It is just a coincidence that coding is in short supply today.

So Much Blood 1 year ago

The other countries also export a lot of blood, just illegally. Those exports might count as US exports in statistics for laundering reasons.

GP said it very clearly: tax the fuel. Taxing carbon atoms as they come from the ground is very different tax.

It is way harder because of reasons you mentioned. It also disincentives, e.g. composite materials with carbon in them. The materials of today and tomorrow, which would make us all richer and planet healthier, because of how much stronger carbon-nanotube reinforced concrete is.

It will disincentive fertiliser production, which can be net carbon-neutral or better.

It will disincentive carbon capture at power plants, since the tax was already paid. Graphite production.

This is my point: every policy is necessary complex. There is no "simple" and "just ..." when making policy