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Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance
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Kolmogorov Complexity And Compression Distance
Alice and Bob play a game of who gets the most number of tales in 20 coin tosses each.
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Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
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Simon Willisonโs Weblog
Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser
I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we โฆ
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Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16
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veloren.net
Veloren 0.16 Release
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AT&T Says Personal Information from 73M Customers Leaked on the Dark Web
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Forbes
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark WebโIncluding Social Security Numbers
The data leak includes customersโ Social Security numbers, among other information, the company said.
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Git as a debugging tool
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Lucas Seiki Oshiro
Git as debugging tool
Debugging with Git Grep, Git Blame, Git Log and Git Bisect
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NetBSD 10.0 Released
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Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
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xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
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Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters
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Los Angeles Review of Books
There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrisonโs Rejection Letters
Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House....
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The federal government promised to plant two billion trees. How's that going?
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www.cbc.ca
The federal government promised to plant two billion trees. Howโs that going?
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Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be
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Science
Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be
Lyrics to English-language top hits have become less complex and more repetitive, which may make them catchierโand more appealing
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The jobs being replaced by AI โ an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs
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Bloomberry
The jobs being replaced by AI - an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs
Last Updated: January 23, 2026Thereโs no question that AI will impact jobs. But which jobs are more likelyโฆ
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Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks
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THE_BYTE.
Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks
As hype and investment in AI soars, some businesses are learning that the technology isn't reliable enough to represent their companies.
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Redox: Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel
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www.redox-os.org
Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
The Redox official website
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Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons
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WSU Insider
Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons
A WSU-led study found that climate change will likely make more good flying weather for honey bees in the autumn โ raising the likelihood of colony collapse in the spring.
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Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed โ study
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Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed โ study
Researchers analysed the words in more than 12,000 English-language songs across several genres from 1980 to 2020
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Notes on El Salvador
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Matt Lakeman
Notes on El Salvador
In 1995, El Salvador had an intentional homicide rate of 139 per 100,000, the highest in the world and one of the highest rates recorded in modern history. Like all educated middle-class Americans,โฆ
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Why Ireland's housing bubble burst
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worksinprogress.co
Why Ireland's housing bubble burst - Works in Progress Magazine
Irelandโs housing bubble and bust has become emblematic of what not to do in housing. The only problem is nobody agrees what actually went wrong.
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Average worker now logs off at 4 p.m. on Fridays
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Axios
Weekend starts early: Average worker now logs off at 4 p.m. on Fridays
4 p.m. is quitting time on Friday.
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Models all the way down
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Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth
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Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth
Chipmaker Nvidia has shown off a clone of our entire planet that could help meteorologists simulate and visualize global weather patterns.
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A Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet from Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars for Years
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The Drive
How a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars For Years
One of history's greatest Formula 1 teams, Williams, has apparently been hamstrung by a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for years.
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