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UI Density What UI density means and how to design for it May 20, 2024 · 20 min read Interfaces are becoming less dense. I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it that way” bias,

Some say the car a person drives can say a lot about them. As cars get “connected,” this turns out to be truer than many people might have realized. While connectivity can let drivers do things like p

Full disclosure: I didn’t have any plans to write this Article; I had various reasons to be in the U.S. this week, and Microsoft’s Build developer conference, which kicks off today, happened to fit in

Cities and towns that build their own broadband networks often say they only considered the do-it-yourself option because private Internet service providers didn't meet their communities' needs. When

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences On why human level intelligence is not needed to create algorithmically generated text that may seem like it was written by a human The

The researchers taught their experimental device to recognize spoken vowels, a common benchmark task for neural networks. With the advantages of light, it could do so faster and more efficiently than

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Educator Tool Suite '87 This is a collection of BASCIA utility programs for classroom management written by my father, Mike Knox, in the late 1980s. These programs were designed to automate and strea

This week I’m midway through my now-annual lecture series on folktales from the history of computing at AHO (the Oslo School of Architecture and Design). The idea is that I trace an admittedly idiosy

Hi! Braindump is our attempt to imagine what game creation could be like in the brave new world of LLMs and generative AI. We want to give you an entire AI game studio, complete with coders, artists,

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A bitterly fought court battle over a computer scientist's claim to be bitcoin's inventor represented a 'most serious abuse' of the High Court's process, a judge ruled today. In his 230-page written j

Because it seemed like a good idea at the time. The Apple II line of computers had an amazing run, from 1977 to 1993. In that time, hundreds of thousands of pieces of software were written for it, in

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash A lot of the time you can ask a large language model (LLM) to perform a task and it will give you a decent answer. For example here’s the start of a poem about a pira

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In February, Meta researchers published a paper titled Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta, which introduces a tool they called TestGen-LLM. The fully automated approac

Singapore Airlines Ltd. said one person was killed and several others injured after a flight from the UK to Singapore encountered severe turbulence in the skies over Asia and was forced to make an eme

Silicon Valley would have you believe that people hunger for relentless technological advancement — to communicate exclusively with ChatGPT while wearing mixed-reality headsets and listening to playli

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. State mass surveillance Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tri

At Google IO 2024, Google unveiled Firebase Genkit, featuring Ollama support for running Google’s open-source Gemma model on your local machine. Firebase Genkit is a new open-source framework for deve

Meteor Lake’s standard E-Cores share a 24 MB L3 cache with the P-Cores, while the LPE-Cores have to make do with just their private 2 MB L2. Caching is critical to performance in modern CPUs because e

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In the odd case that you are an experienced programmer who doesn’t have a preference over using camel case or underscores for identifiers, try making up your mind now. Try choosing independently of (l

waxolotl waxolotl is a small language that compiles to WebAssembly Text format. It is a mutant offspring of wax and wat-compiler that builds a standalone WASM binary in the browser or server. Demo ·

Erlang/OTP 27 is finally here. This blog post will introduce the new features that we are most excited about. A list of all changes is found in Erlang/OTP 27 Readme. Or, as always, look at the releas

When an EV is being charged, alternating current (AC) electricity from the grid is converted to direct current (DC) so it can be used by the car battery. This is done by a ‘convertor’ which is located

A week ago, OpenAI released an exciting new demo, featuring a voice character with a sexy breathy voice that was supposed to remind you of Scarlett Johansson’s AI agent character in the fabulous film

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.

An Ode to Deluxe Paint The Kaleidoscopic Magical Motion Machine Late 2023 Beginnings When first seeing an Amiga 500 computer, it wasn't the games but a copy of the painting program Deluxe Paint II

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Your ideal learning environment # Talks about learning technology often center on technology. Instead, I want to begin by asking: what do you want learning to be like—for yourself? If you could snap

I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of th

You have probably already seen the work of Bùi Tường Phong. A Vietnamese computer scientist working in the United States in 1973, Bùi developed the Phong shading and reflection algorithms, which have

SHIPBREAKING Artist's Statement “The original idea for the shipbreaking started a long time ago. About four years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill I heard a radio program where they were talking abo