*the full story is now on the official clearspace blog

Publishers Weekly has tweeted breaking news about a decision in the publishers’ suit against the Internet Archive: A copy of the decision can be downloaded from CourtListener: gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.188.0.pdf (courtlistener.com) EXCERPTS FROM THE DECISION.…

Sometimes projects are born from ideas that sprout and keep growing until you pluck them out and do something with them. A friend mine calls these brain weeds. Other times, projects are born out of need.

Moore, who set the course for the future of the semiconductor industry, devoted his later years to philanthropy.

Nature - Anthropogenic pressures and climate change are altering water flows worldwide. Better understanding, new economic thinking and an international governance framework are needed to stave off...

Banking turmoil has raised concerns of a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis, but there are significant differences between now vs. then

I suspect GPT-4's performance is influenced by data contamination, at least on Codeforces.

Of the easiest problems on Codeforces, it solved 10/10 pre-2021 problems and 0/10 recent problems.

This strongly points to contamination.

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“A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited.”

Downloads

Experimental toolkit for auto-generating codebase documentation using LLMs - context-labs/autodoc

With an 8-core Rockchip RK3588S SoC, the Orange Pi 5 is leaps and bounds faster than the aging Raspberry Pi 4.

Internet Storm Center Diary 2023-10-29, Author: Guy Bruneau

A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in the age of climate collapse.

Cloudflare helps to provide access to millions of websites on the regular web. The company also offers an IPFS gateway, making it easier to access content on the censorship-resistant storage network. Unlike its CDN and DNS services, Cloudflare reports that…