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Knuth Christmas Lecture: Adventures with Knight's Tours (2025) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nmwnmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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Year old App Engine bug: No way to delete an application(issuetracker.google.com)
1 points by nmwnmw 1y ago|1 comments
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by nmwnmw 1y ago
In particular, https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35874988#comment258 > This issue was made when I was born. Amazing how this isn't and will not be fixed. Guess I'll just move cloud providers then.
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by nmwnmw 2y ago
- Llama 3.2 introduces small vision LLMs (11B and 90B parameters) and lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) for edge/mobile devices, with the smaller models supporting 128K token context. - The 11B and 90B vision models are competit
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Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models(ai.meta.com)
924 points by nmwnmw 2y ago|328 comments
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Download Llama 3.2 1B, 3B, 11B, 90B(llama.com)
7 points by nmwnmw 2y ago|0 comments
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by nmwnmw 2y ago
Walk starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABQBEdOzrV0&t=6360s
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew attempts first private spacewalk [video](youtube.com)
26 points by nmwnmw 2y ago|7 comments
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by nmwnmw 2y ago
Three astronauts died in 1967: Gus Grissom, Edward White II, Roger Chaffee.
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Susan Wojcicki has died(facebook.com)
150 points by nmwnmw 2y ago|2 comments
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Google Keynote (Google I/O '24) [video](youtube.com)
11 points by nmwnmw 2y ago|0 comments
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by nmwnmw 2y ago
Author is Shane Legg, cofounder of DeepMind.
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by nmwnmw 2y ago
Highly recommend The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Talks about this time plus many of his other contributions to e.g. game theory.
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by nmwnmw 3y ago
Also check out https://www.halfbakery.com/ .
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by nmwnmw 3y ago
https://archive.ph/lLKWY
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Luiz André Barroso has died(wired.com)
210 points by nmwnmw 3y ago|25 comments
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by nmwnmw 3y ago
Isn't it sufficient to have another lab confirm that the existing sample is a super conductor? Then we can all sprint to replication.
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by nmwnmw 4y ago
Did this in north Alabama back in the mid 90s for a school fundraiser. They hired a surveyor to plot the squares on the football field. We discovered that the field was narrower on one end by about 7 feet! The cow plopped on a square bounda
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by nmwnmw 4y ago
This is the same Virgil of: - Ethereum Proof of Stake [1] - King of the Nerds TV Show - Wikiscanner [2] Source [3] [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09437 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner
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by nmwnmw 5y ago
Wikidata[0] is a freely available knowledge graph. You can even query it online [1] [0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page [1] https://query.wikidata.org/
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by nmwnmw 5y ago
My personal favorite of these is the Splay Tree[1]. I've never used it in production, but it's really simple to implement and reason about. Though my main experience was trying (and failing) to prove amortized bounds on the operat
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Neeva Announces Public Availability of Its Ads Free, Private Search Engine(neeva.com)
162 points by nmwnmw 5y ago|94 comments
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Changing Engines Mid-Flight: Neeva’s Switch to SSR(neeva.co)
7 points by nmwnmw 5y ago|0 comments