Making Hard Things Easy https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy/
Julia Evans
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard to learn and ideas for how we can make them easier.
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AMD may get across the CUDA moat https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/10/05/how-amd-may-get-across-the-cuda-moat/
HPCwire
How AMD May Get Across the CUDA Moat
When discussing GenAI, the term "GPU" almost always enters the conversation and the topic often moves toward performance and access. Interestingly, the word "GPU" is assumed to mean "Nvidia" products. (As an aside, the popular Nvidia hardware used in GenAI…
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs? https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27722/why-did-the-motorola-68000-processor-family-fall-out-of-use-in-personal-computer
Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in personal computers in the 21st century?
In the '80s and '90s the Intel x86 and Motorola 68000 families were the two leading microcomputer architectures in the 16-bit/32-bit personal computer scene. The 68000s were even preferred by the p...
Subtraction is functionally complete https://orlp.net/blog/subtraction-is-functionally-complete/
Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system https://nerdyarticles.com/a-clutter-free-life-with-paperless-ngx/
Nerdy Articles
A Clutter-Free Life: Going Paperless with Paperless-ngx
Explore Paperless-ngx, the game-changer in document management. I'll take you through my adoption journey, Docker setup, and why it's 100 times better than paper filing. Say goodbye to paper chaos!
Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro https://prolost.com/blog/applelog
Prolost
Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro — Prolost
Free LUTs for iPhone 15 Pro Log Video
Introduction to Modern Statistics https://openintro-ims2.netlify.app/
openintro-ims.netlify.app
Introduction to Modern Statistics (2e)
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student https://scrollprize.org/firstletters
scrollprize.org
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student
Vesuvius Challenge \$700,000 Grand Prize “now definitely achievable”
ChatGPT’s system prompts https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/System%20Prompts.md
GitHub
ChatGPT-AutoExpert/System Prompts.md at main · spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert
🚀🧠💬 Supercharged Custom Instructions for ChatGPT (non-coding) and ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis (coding). - spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert
Implementing a GPU's programming model on a CPU http://litherum.blogspot.com/2023/10/implementing-gpus-programming-model-on.html
Blogspot
Implementing a GPU's Programming Model on a CPU
SIMT The programming model of a GPU uses what has been coined "single instruction multiple thread." The idea is that the programmer writes t...
4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution https://zju3dv.github.io/4k4d/
Write more "useless" software https://ntietz.com/blog/write-more-useless-software/
Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts https://nota-lang.org/#def-nota
nota-lang.org
Nota: A Document Language for the Browser
Making a world where you never have to use LaTeX again.
In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022) http://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles
colinmorris.github.io
In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia
Wikipedia sure is popular. The most popular articles in a given week routinely get millions of views. But with 6 million plus articles, Wikipedia has plenty ...
Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/
A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.html
tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
Stealing OAuth tokens of Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App https://eval.blog/research/microsoft-account-token-leaks-in-harvest/
eval.blog
Stealing OAuth tokens of connected Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App
Reported an OAuth token leak via open redirect in Harvest.