First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/first-pictures-from-euclid-satellite-reveal-billions-of-orphan-stars
www.nottingham.ac.uk
News - First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars - University of Nottingham
The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the Perseus cluster of galaxies.
We're ending our Samsung collaboration https://www.ifixit.com/News/96162/were-ending-our-samsung-collaboration
iFixit
Weβre Ending Our Samsung Collaboration
Itβs not us, itβs you. Itβs with a heavy wrench that we have decided to end our partnership with Samsung. Despite a huge amount of effort, Samsungβs approach to repairability does not align with our mission.
Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13817
arXiv.org
Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent
Second-order training methods have better convergence properties than gradient descent but are rarely used in practice for large-scale training due to their computational overhead. This can be...
Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4835311
Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident/
Google Cloud Blog
Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud shares details of an incident impacting one Australian customer's use of Google Cloud VMware Engine. Learn what happened and how we're preventing it from happening again.
Show HN: Spot β Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go https://github.com/roblillack/spot
GitHub
GitHub - roblillack/spot: React-like desktop GUI toolkit for Go
React-like desktop GUI toolkit for Go. Contribute to roblillack/spot development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought (2014) [pdf] http://gjgreenberg.bol.ucla.edu/docs/rpp/04_tversky.pdf
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908) http://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-helen-keller-on-her.html
Blogspot
Before the Soul Dawn - Helen Keller on Her Life Before Self-Consciousness
From The World I Live In , by Helen Keller Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world....
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215
MIT News
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the βmultiple demand network,β which is also recruited for complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problemsβ¦
Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/ResumeTip.png
Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens? https://blog.ploetzli.ch/2024/should-i-use-jwt-for-authentication/
Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero https://blog.jgc.org/2024/05/controlling-taylor-swift-eras-tour.html
blog.jgc.org
Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero
Many large concerts feature wristbands that light up on command. They are used to produce varied visual effects across a stadium. One compan...
Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14975
arXiv.org
Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems
Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPSes) are used by modern mobile devices to learn their position using nearby Wi-Fi access points as landmarks. In this work, we show that Apple's WPS can be...