Bojanikus/Getty Images Several European countries are betting on open-source software. In the United States, eh, not so much. In the latest news from across the Atlantic, Switzerland has taken a major
The European Commission has raised the alarm about the independence of Italy’s public service media and Rome’s failure to reform the country’s strict defamation law, which is widely seen as silencing
This latest generation continues to push the boundaries of cost efficiency, speed, and performance. Mistral Large 2 is exposed on la Plateforme and enriched with new features to facilitate building in
Developing on Windows can be frustrating; while some development software is Windows-native or fully cross-platform, a lot of tools are made primarily for Linux. Surprisingly this even includes very p
Don't miss out! Follow PsyPost on LinkedIn! Look at these pictures. Can you see a cube on the left and a face on the right? Can you imagine seeing things in your mind? Can you hear an inner voice when
In the early days of high-performance computing, the major tech companies of the day each invested heavily in developing their own closed source versions of Unix. It was hard to imagine at the time th
The key for every AI startup is to identify a problem where your products benefits from AI advances, which then creates a powerful flywheel effect: Better AI models improve your product Enhanced produ
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A few days ago, I gave a very well received talk about API design at dotJS titled “API Design is UI Design” [1]. One of the points I made was that good UIs (and thus, good APIs) have a smooth UI compl
This post is a response to Do people IRL know you have a blog? A short while before I came across bacardi55’s call to conversation, I asked my wife if she wanted to see something cool. She said yeah.
Yet another non usual technical blog post today… But something I have been thinking about for a few weeks… So I thought that writing it here might get it out of my system (and maybe raise intersting r
home No More Blue Fridays 22 Jul 2024 In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code
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I write and read about the culture and habits of elites because it is a way for me to understand this unfamiliar world I find myself in. I read less about the culture of the poor and working-class bec
Dell had it all figured out. The venerable computer company wouldn’t force people back into the office. Instead, it would just insist that all staffers show up at the office for at least three days a
This is a very short book about copying. Its contents, unless otherwise noted, are licensed under CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, change, and repost it ho
The poll results were ominous. In a survey of Houston teachers in late 2023, more than 42 percent said they wouldn’t be returning for the next school year. That’s on top of the teachers who’ve recentl
On Tuesday morning, a day before the R1 was announced, I was finalizing our coverage and looking over the materials Canon prepared. “The Canon EOS R1 is Ahead of the Game,” a header in the press relea
Programming is widely regarded, at least among enthusiasts, as a creative act. Calling it a “craft” has gained widespread acceptance, and it’s not unusual to hear the term “art” thrown around (if some
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This year’s report comes at a time when around half the world’s population have been going to the polls in national and regional elections, and as wars continue to rage in Ukraine and Gaza. In these t
Barack Obama's bold, ambitious budget plan proves that he is the true heir of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Consider Obama's Rooseveltian energy plan. In 1939, President Roosevelt decided to mo
Is there anything else to write about David Foster Wallace? Fourteen years after his death, Wallace may be the most-discussed figure of contemporary American literature, yet despite all this talk — or
There was a time when GoPro was everywhere and doing everything, from action cameras, to drones, to 360 cameras. Heck, I even learned how to make 360 videos using a cage that held 6 GoPro Heros. It al
While hot takes and reviews of the just announced new Canon cameras (the EOS R1 and R5 Mark II) are sure to roll in throughout the summer before each camera’s respective releases later this year, we’r
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — i
Materialized View has crossed 3,000 subscribers! Growth continues to be up and to the right. I can’t say thank you enough, but… thank you. In other news, Gable has taken ownership of Recap. I open sou
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Few months ago I was also writing a long tweet-reply to this tweet by @srush_nlp at some point. Then the tweet got deleted because I closed the tab by accident.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I promised to write it as a bl
Jeremy Hammond, Sabu, and the Intelligence-Industrial Complex Published inNotes from a Strange World · 9 min read· Nov 21, 2013 First, an introduction: I write about hackers, and for the past few year
Canon has officially unveiled the EOS R5 Mark II. The EOS R5 Mark II features two processors, the ability to internally record 8K RAW up to 60p, a host of new AF modes and upgrades, and it can simulta
Although Canon fans knew that the EOS R1 flagship camera was coming, the company also dropped a pleasant surprise by revealing the EOS R5 II, the long-awaited successor to Canon’s popular high-res R5
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account Annals of Medicine May 25, 2009 Costlier care is often worse care.Photograph by Phillip Toledano It is spring in McAllen, Texas. The morni
Top highlight A fast, simple framework for distributed applications Published inTowards Data Science · 6 min read· Feb 11, 2019 Ray is an open source project for parallel and distributed Python. Paral
Dean Wampler provides a distilled overview of Ray, an open source system for scaling Python systems from single machines to large clusters. If you are interested in additional insights, register for t
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) There's something interesting happening right now. Startups are underg
I spent the last three weeks in Seoul, partly visiting family I hadn’t seen in years and partly taking a vacation from my usual work in my usual city in my usual context of life. While I haven’t been
November 15, 2022 — Dr. Brian Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist who contributed to the development of UNIX at Bell Labs. Along with Dennis Richie, he co-authored a fundamental book on C, The
and By offering a comprehensive mission-oriented industrial strategy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new Labour Party government has shown that it clearly understands the nature of the country’
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