The AI community’s effort has led to the development of many high-quality open-source LLMs, including but not limited to LLaMA 2, Falcon, StableLM, and Pythia. You can finetune these models on a custom instruction dataset to adapt to your specific task, such…

Researchers in France have found that eating too many processed carbs (like sugar and white bread) can affect the way our brains work.

A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change — to the oil industry's benefit

As contacts to the new 988 suicide hotline number have risen, so have call tracing and police interventions.

For a storage medium said to be dying, tape is looking pretty good.

LONDON: Eleven members of the US Congress have written to PayPal telling the digital payment platform to end its ban on Palestinians using its services in the Occupied Territories. PayPal, the letter said, is denying “equal access to the digital economy”…

Germany has slipped into recession as last year’s energy price shock takes its toll on consumer spending.

List of open-source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. - btw-so/open-source-alternatives

A team of researchers in Romania has discovered over 200 books and manuscripts in a church in Mediaș. It includes dozens of early printed works and manuscript fragments dating back to as early as the 9th century.

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 16 is now [available for download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/). This …

ALIEN was released 44 years ago today. One of the definitive science fiction/horror movies, its influence is still seen to this day. The behind-the-scenes story of how the film was made is a fascinating one...

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Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison

Sometimes you have a lot of data, and one approach to support quick searches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search can involve only looking at a small fraction of the total data. The threshold at which it's worth switching to indexing, though…

Truly, this is a pressing issue. I hope somebody at the helm is watching.

Links 'n' stuff:
The mentioned turn signal video
https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA

My other vehicular-lighting related content:
On how we used to require all cars to have the same headlights…

The drug can target one of the three most dangerous bacterial superbugs, say researchers.

A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.