Since I left school (early 2010s) a couple of recently developed techniques were widely adopted by the industry. For example,

Asymmetric numeral systems for compression (e.g. Ubuntu ships with zstd

So. I read the thing. And it hurt, man. It really hurt. I was dying to find something positive to say, and there was nothing.

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Fix the system, not your understanding

Current learning models often struggle with human-like systematic generalization, particularly in learning compositional rules from limited data and extrapolating them to novel combinations. We...

Although average human life expectancy is rising, the maximum lifespan is not increasing. Leading demographers claim that human lifespan is fixed at a natural limit around 122 years. However, there is no fixed limit in animals. In animals, anti-aging ...

Fiber, a less known concept compared with coroutine, is a pretty powerful addition to cooperative multitasking. As a graphics programmer in game industry, I totally appreciate the great flexibility that fiber brings on the table. As a matter of fact, I feel…

I set up a Retro PC recently. One of the reasons I did this is because I was inspired by this thread:

A copy of the Matrix fan film “Fanimatrix" is the oldest torrent that is still being actively shared 20 years later.

In this deeply informative video, Jeremy Howard, co-founder of fast.ai and creator of the ULMFiT approach on which all modern language models (LMs) are based, takes you on a comprehensive journey through the fascinating landscape of LMs. Starting with the…

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Robert Roberson was convicted of murdering his two-year-old daughter on the basis of the now largely discredited shaken baby syndrome theory

If you thought JavaScript was a mess, here's what it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++: 🧵
- Windows uses UTF-16, but most modern software uses UTF-8
- Converting UTF-8 to UTF-16 requires calling MultiByteToWideChar twice (once for size, second…

Our findings demonstrate that the COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is not confined to the injection
site but spreads systemically and is packaged into BM EVs. However, as only trace
quantities are present and a clear translational activity is absent, we believe breastfeeding…

Sequential models, such as Recurrent Neural Networks and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, have long suffered from slow training due to their inherent sequential nature. For many years this...