Say what you will about Amazon Web Services, but the cloud giant has been able to scale its systems and services for more than two decades now, continually introducing new features while keeping the u
Google’s Pixel earbuds have always felt like a work in progress. The first-gen Pixel Buds was too futuristic for its time, the 2020 edition wasn’t reliable or comfortable, and the 2022 Pixel Buds Pro
for programmers, and people who like to know things Author: Kevin Bourrillion Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. —Ray Cummings It’s hard to write much code without encountering the
In the early 1990s, there was a lull in the lucrative tradition of college comedies. Sensing an opportunity, 20th Century Fox greenlit PCU, a low-budget film that featured a cast of largely unknown ac
Subscribe Wherever You Get Your Podcasts Catch this episode and the full season of College Matters on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. In This Episode In 1994, a movie called PCU opened in theaters to lit
When you get started with finetuning AI models, you typically pull the datasets and models from somewhere like the Hugging Face Hub. This is generally fine, but as your usecase grows and gets more com
Shivika Sabharwal’s nerves kicked in the second she spotted the size of the crowd. It was mid-September, and Sabharwal was standing center stage inside a massive event space at Mumbai’s extravagant Ji
Because as technological advancements push the internet to grow and morph into something ever more Byzantine, there are so many more opportunities to be annoying By • - There are so many ways to be on
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images OpenAI is finishing out the year with a spectacle: the “12 Days of Openai” — a.k.a. “Shipmas,” as in shipping products — began last week, promisi
2024-12-10 • 2523 words • 14 minutes • #parsing • #formats Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? JSON is extremely popular but deeply flawed. This article discusses the details of
As I write this, thinking about how much branding has changed in ten years, a couple of developments seem worth mentioning off the top. Absolut Vodka has recently launched a limited-edition line calle
“Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny,” the great marine biologist
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last month a major shareholder of a publicly traded company t
Performance measurement is one of the most important parts of software development. In academic research a thorough performance evaluation is considered essential for many publications to prove the va
despicable UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. Beth Mole – Nov 16, 2023
The Cold War has been followed by the class war. A transatlantic class war has broken out simultaneously in many countries between elites based in the corporate, financial, and professional sectors an
Feature | December 2, 2024 Blu-ray DVD Share this Article: Between the late 90s and mid-2000s, home releases were often imaginatively packaged and stuffed with extras. We take a look back at the DVD b
For thousands of years, humans sought to subjugate their enemies by inflicting pain, misery, and terror. They did this because these were the most paralyzing emotions they could consistently evoke; al
Medicare Advantage – the commercial alternative to traditional Medicare – is drawing down federal health care funds, costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of US$83 billion a year. Me
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As photographers, one of the first things we learn is that we should always shoot in raw. This gives us the most flexibility and data to work with in editing, with the drawback being large file sizes
Summary Misinformation remains a major concern, especially on social media. Across ten studies analyzing more than a million social-media posts, Kellogg’s William Brady and colleagues find that misinf
Researchers have developed a web plug-in to help those looking to protect their mental health make more informed decisions. Jarret Bencks | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Press Contact: Ja
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Here’s a little secret: I’m terrible at swimming. As a kid, I took swimming lessons up to AquaQuest 3 (which seems to be equivalent to Red Cross 1), but I stopped because I was never comfortable with
Recently, I took David Beazley’s Rafting trip, an intensive course on distributed systems. It was a surprisingly wonderful time, and I want to organize my thoughts about it on paper since it might cha
decoupling yourself building a resilient identity system Here’s my theory. Hobbies are microservices for people. Without a hobby, you could become too dependent on your job. Without a hobby, your self
Jeff Bezos is tired of people judging him solely by his ranking among the world's billionaires. The Amazon founder argues there’s an “overfocus” in American society on where he sits in relation to oth
This is the seventh post in the Fastmail Advent 2024 series. The previous post was Dec 6: Twoskip and more. The next post is Dec 8: Guiding principles. There are many specifications that form the curr
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Are you planning a party night in, say, Ibiza in the near future? You can get there for around £270, round trip, in a little over two hours with BA. But why risk all the hassle when you can rent a pri
College enrollment is dropping at a “concerning” rate, according to new data. Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows enrollment of 18-year-old freshmen has dropped by 5% th
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If you were secretly hoping Microsoft would lower the system requirements for Windows 11 so you could upgrade your or your family’s Windows 10 machines to Windows 11, you’re going to be in for some ba
During the First World War, a six-year-old Simone Weil learned that soldiers on the Western Front were not rationed sugar, so she refused to eat it until conditions improved. But whereas most leave su
In 1986, my quiet life as a doctoral student in philosophy was punctuated by a trip to Brno in Czechoslovakia (as it then was), where I found myself in a high-speed, chicken-scattering taxi, chasing a
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