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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

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JULY 11, 2024

Recorded on December 12, 2017.ICARUS ICARUS (Integrated Circuit ARtwork Utility System) was a graphical integrated circuit layout design tool created for the Xerox.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction Welcome into the world of Transformers, the deep learning model that has transformed Natural Language Processing (NLP) since its debut in 2017. These linguistic marvels, armed with self-attention mechanisms, revolutionize how machines understand language, from translating texts to analyzing sentiments.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Deepfakes have instilled panic in experts since they first emerged in 2017. Microsoft and Facebook have recently announced a contest to identify deepfakes more efficiently.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Founded in 2017, Logically is a leader in using AI to augment clients’ intelligence capability. By processing and analyzing vast amounts of data.

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Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 17, 2022

A team at Google Brain developed Transformers in 2017, and they are now replacing RNN models like long short-term memory(LSTM) as the model of choice for NLP […]. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. The post Test your Data Science Skills on Transformers library appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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MARCH 9, 2022

It has maintained its position at #1 since the year 2017. Introduction Python is a really interesting programming language and by the end of this blog, you’ll also understand why. The IEEE Spectrum has ranked Python #1 in their list of top programming languages, 2020. Interesting! Isn’t it? appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Hacker News

MAY 28, 2024

From the Louvre museum to the sculpted façade of Notre Dame to the quintessential six-story apartment buildings with their grey-beige blush, Paris is built.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Our legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly. Don't say "Velcro", say VELCRO® Brand.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Introduction Back in 2017, a group of researchers at Google AI published a paper that introduced a transformer model architecture that changed all.

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MAY 1, 2025

Since moving from academic research to industry in 2017, Ive worked on two software projects. The first of these (from 2017 to 2021) was Delos at Meta, a Chubby/ZooKeeper/etcd-like control plane storage system.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Introduction In 2017, The Economist declared that “the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft gather large bytes of data, harvest it, and create complex tracking algorithms.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Some sentences just sound awkward. In order to ensure clarity, writers need to consider more than just grammar: weight is equally important. In the following extract from Making Sense, acclaimed linguist David Crystal shows how sentence length (and weight) affects writing quality.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation was far graver than anticipated.

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JULY 9, 2024

author, Eric Holscher& the Write the Docs community, Documentation as Code ( Docs as Code) refers to a philosophy that you should be writing documentation with the same tools as code: Issue Tracke.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 4, 2024

Since the groundbreaking ‘Attention is all you need’ paper in 2017, the Transformer architecture, notably exemplified by ChatGPT, has become pivotal. Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, especially in NLP, large language models (LLMs) have swiftly transformed interactions with technology.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist. In the back of each store, past the displays of Realistic 8-track players, Minimus-7 speakers,

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

I'm a keen user of Emacs and Org mode for a variety of tasks, including note taking, generating documents for exporting to LaTeX, Word, or html. creating blog posts (notably for this blog, using Org2blog). Although Org mode is usually associated with Emacs, it is a markup language in its own right, and one that…

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JUNE 8, 2024

Gamblers and insurers both place bets on the future, so how do they compare?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Using nothing but physics, Indian engineer Sonam Wangchuk is creating giant ‘ice stupas’ in the Tibetan plateau to counteract the effects of climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SSH is an incredibly powerful protocol whose footprint needs to be monitored closely in enterprises. The most common use of SSH is for totally legitimate purposes like terminal (ssh) or for file transfer (scp,sftp).

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Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 29, 2023

Rewind to 2017, a pivotal moment marked by […] The post Beginners’ Guide to Finetuning Large Language Models (LLMs) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. In a mere blink, AI has surged, shaping our world.

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Hacker News

APRIL 29, 2024

Nonplussed' by definition means that one is perplexed, but a modern usage has sprung up to mean nonchalance. We try to explain how this came about and how to deal with it.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Organizations tend to drift towards danger and normalize deviations from procedure.

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JANUARY 18, 2025

There is an amazing shadertoy called "Tiny Clouds" by stubbe (twitter: @Stubbesaurus) which flies you through nearly photorealistic clouds in only 10 lines of code / 280 characters (2 old sized tweets or 1 new larger sized tweet). The code is a bit dense, so I wanted to take some time to understand it and…

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message gimme gimme gimme in stderr, which wasn't expected.

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JUNE 11, 2024

"T-Mobile will never change the price you pay," the carrier told users in 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

At several points throughout history, someone has sat down to watch a ballet; a long and complex performance with multiple dancers and changes of music and style, and at the end of it, said: “somehow, I have to write that down.”

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JANUARY 16, 2025

It started among engineers inspired by a 2017 research paper. The current frenzy around artificial intelligence has spread like a shockwave.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

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APRIL 4, 2024

It’s only me, and my colleagues can assure you that I’m mostly harmless. I do software development and work at one of Vincit offices in Phoenix, Arizona.

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APRIL 14, 2025

The surprising, quiet nourishment of losing my internal monologue.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In this project, I'm adding an ESP8266 to an Aukey charger to create a DIY Smart Socket. Making things is fun, and adding ESP8266s to household items to turn it into IoT devices seems to be my new hobby! This is the 2nd part of the guide focusing on the hardware.

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MAY 18, 2024

There is a story repeated so often that it has become a truth -- that medieval folk drank weak beer to avoid the perils of drinking water -- but it's a myth.

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