My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications lik

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Drug discovery Outside of biotech circles, AI-powered drug discovery isn't a well-known use case for embedding vectors. In reality, billion-scale vector search is frequently in this industry, and thi

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When it came to housing, Susan Apel and Keith Irwin thought they had planned adroitly for later life. They bought a four-bedroom house on two acres in Lebanon, N.H., 24 years ago, and “we made sure to

In a packed North Bay, Ont. auditorium this March, residents, environmental and legal aid groups gathered to discuss a problem that’s been decades in the making, and that risks affecting not only thos

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There’s something poetic about humanity’s attempt to detect other civilizations somewhere in the Milky Way’s expanse. There’s also something futile about it. But we’re not going to stop. There’s littl

Project Random randomly serves obscure content from around the web. It puts the web on shuffle by randomizing the algorithms behind social media and streaming platforms, to unearth content that you (

Now, perhaps, it is clear why it is hard to evaluate individual player skill in Counter-Strike. There are many ways for players to contribute to winning a match. For example, making higher-level tacti

As the global temperature rises, so too does the range of tropical concerns. One of the most prominent examples of this is the increasing presence in temperate zones of vector-borne diseases once conf

About Fathom: We think it’s insane that so many people and businesses rely on notes to remember and share insights from their meetings. Notes are time-consuming and stressful to create while trying

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A woman was found living in the rooftop sign of a Family Fare grocery store in Michigan and had been there for about a year, police said. Police in Midland were notified about the woman living in the

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Police are braced for further protests at the Tesla factory site in Grünheide near Berlin. Activists protesting the expansion of the facility say they have no course of action left but civil disobedie

MAILING LIST Explore a surreal, interconnected, labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items, solve puzzles, and try to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see. Dis

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Since some of my first prototypes with Playdate I’ve wanted there to be a way to interact with the device using a mouse. Well, today is that day! No doubt you have some questions? How are you doing t

Meng Liu spent years ping-ponging around the world looking for community. It was her dream to live in New York City, but after she found it difficult to make friends, Liu moved to Los Angeles, where s

A note from the Editor in Chief: Scientific American is celebrating its 166th year. Given its history as the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., it's probably no surprise that it has

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A team of researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Fujitsu and others have announced the development of a large language model that can serve as a foundation for generative artificial intel

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Apple Inc. has closed in on an agreement with OpenAI to use the startup’s technology on the iPhone, part of a broader push to bring artificial intelligence features to its devices, according to people

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This blog is adapted from a talk at an MLOps Learners demo day (slides, video). I worked on vector embeddings during my PhD at Stanford. I used Jupyter daily, because it paired code with visuals in a

Asahi Linux, the project that aims to bring desktop Linux to Apple hardware with Apple silicon—the M series of chips—is out with Fedora Asahi Remix 40. More hardware features of Apple devices are supp

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8 May 2024 UniSuper and Google Cloud understand the disruption to services experienced by members has been extremely frustrating and disappointing. We extend our sincere apologies to all members. Wh

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Copyright holders can claim damages for copyright infringements that occurred years or even decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court has clarified. In a majority decision, the Court rejected the lower cour

With recent Jim Simons passing, I noticed some comments were asking @dang to display the black bar in his memory. I then looked at previous mentions of the black bar on HN, and it seems that it is qu