A few years ago, on a whim, I wrote YAIOUOM. YAOIOUM was a static analyzer for Rust that checked that the code was using units of measures correctly, e.g. a distance in meters is not a distance in centimeters, dividing meters by seconds gave you a value in…

Remote work has spread far and wide since the pandemic spurred a work-from-home revolution of sorts, but perhaps no place more unexpectedly than behind prison walls.

MIT physicists and colleagues have for the first time measured the geometry, or shape, of electrons in solids at the quantum level. Scientists have long known how to measure the energies and velocities ...

In 2016, an EgyptAir A320 spiraled into the Mediterranean, killing 66 people. Was it an act of sabotage, or something even scarier?

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App that shows how full the International Space Station's urine tank is in real time, available for macOS (menu bar), iOS, watchOS and visionOS - Jaennaet/pISSStream

My quest to master German vocabulary. Follow me on how I'm leveraging Anki to overcome years of procrastination.

I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache 2.0 licensed Qwen licensed (the license changed) QvQ-72B-Preview, “an …

a perfectly miserable son of a gun builds Silicon Valley

If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?

Basically the title. I tried to recommend pocketbase to my manager but he dismissed it because it is not v1 yet and it is developed by a single person. Could you help me convince him otherwise?

How to connect a USB4 SSD to get better performance from an Intel Mac. Should you buy a Thunderbolt 4 hub, or a Thunderbolt 5 dock? Do any of these live ‘up to’ their claimed performanc…

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“The What and Why of Adapter based Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning: Understanding Its Purpose and Significance”

The existing articles on Wide Events define the concept well but leave the implementation details to the reader.

A new documentary film recounts how a Los Angeles man narrowly avoided a death sentence for a murder he did not commit when footage from a taping of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm corroborated his alibi.

Like the amber in “Jurassic Park,” immutable Linux distros safeguard the core system. Here's a story about how I, like many of you, have been using Linux