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APRIL 22, 2024

Hsu, author of Air Conditioning Because they were available long before artificial cooling, heating technologies are at the center of many early Western writings that reflect the cultural underpinnings of thermal comfort and air conditioning.

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APRIL 29, 2024

TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It’s the long time needed. The galaxy is likely strewn … Continue reading → The chief hurdle in constructing a Death Star is not the energy, materials, or even knowledge needed. A society can change their mind mid-way over centuries, and simply move on.

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MARCH 19, 2023

Artificial intelligence has developed a treatment for an aggressive form of cancer in just 30 days and demonstrated it can predict a patient's …

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s a half-mile long and has created a 17-acre lake in the northern forest — a testament to the beaver’s resilience. Read more on E360 → The largest beaver dam on Earth was discovered via satellite imagery in 2007, and since then only one person has trekked into the Canadian wild to see it.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Short: I recently reread "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge", 2001 Tor, 21 years after reading it the first time. I had read some of these stories recently, but many of them not since 2002. The Long: I've… I gave the 17 stories here an average overall rating of 3.73/5,

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Reading the news doesn't make us informed, just the opposite. And our obsession with being informed makes it hard to think long term.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

<strong>The long read</strong>: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

I’ve been buying a copy of Maximum PC magazine at the airport newsstand on every long-distance trip I’ve taken over the past two decades. I’m primarily a Mac user but Maximum PC, which started life as boot, bought at these … Continue reading →

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While we originally discussed it over twitter, and some of our colleagues wrote longer responses on their blogs, we never wrote a long form response before. The paper in question can be read from here [link] The RavenDB guys, whose Voron DB en

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

<strong>The long read:</strong> Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system that might destroy them?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

<strong>The long read</strong>: They were long derided as knuckle-draggers, but new discoveries are setting the record straight. As we rethink the nature of the Neanderthals, we could also learn something about our own humanity

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Read the announcement Crafting Legacies,One Century at a Time Request the 100-Year Plan Read the announcement The 100-Year Plan ensures that your stories, achievements, and memories are preserved for generations to come. Plan for the long term Century-Long Domain Registration A domain is your most valuable digital asset.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

<strong>The long read</strong>: Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats

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JANUARY 13, 2024

It would take too long to expose all of the flaws of peer review, here are some: some work is just flat wrong because the reviewers cannot analyze all of the mathematical results, and because they cannot redo the experiments; numerous researchers cheat, sometimes in small ways (“2 out of 3 experiments agree with by … Continue reading Peer (..)

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

The C++ library has long been organized around stream classes, at least when it comes to reading and parsing strings. But streams can be surprisingly slow.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

In August 2021 I wrote a brief essay exploring what helps institutions successfully endure for long periods of time. This is a followup on that essay, which I'd encourage you to read if you haven't already done so. You can do so here. My prior essay on the topic of

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

<strong>The long read:</strong> Before I fled south, I spent years as an aspiring fiction writer in the hermit kingdom. I worked hard – but literary glory kept eluding me

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It is useful to compare quickly two long strings, for example. A simple hash function consists in repeatedly multiplying the hash value by some constant B … Continue reading How fast is rolling Karp-Rabin hashing? A hash function maps values (e.g., strings) into a fixed number of strings, typically smaller than the original.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I clicked on a link and my browser loaded a long article for me to read. Halfway through reading it, the train went into a tunnel and I lost signal. Yesterday I was on a train. That meant I couldn't see the images on the other half of the page for the rest of the [.]

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

<strong>The long read</strong>: When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice. This is the story of the most dramatic 72 hours of their lives

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MAY 11, 2023

Fish are already moving to new waters in search of oxygen, and scientists are warning of the long-term threat to fish species and marine ecosystems. Read more on E360 → Global warming not only increases ocean temperatures, it triggers a cascade of effects that are stripping the seas of oxygen.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

(Bloomberg) -- Deep in the snowy northern island of Hokkaido, Japan is pouring billions of dollars into a long-shot bet to revive its chip-making prowess and insulate its economy from growing US-China tensions.Most Read from BloombergYour 401(k) Will Be Gone Within a DecadeCapital One to Buy Discover for $35 Billion in Year's Biggest Deal Largest (..)

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JUNE 4, 2023

Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally maintain a credible threat of violence. … Continue reading Do we need copyright? And animals can only defend concrete, physical properties, such as an area, a dead bird or a tree.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Why we need to be long and not short on humanity and AI, not humanity or AI, to reap the benefits of generative AI. Continue reading.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

<strong>The long read</strong>: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Long-waited Mastodon vs Twitter comparison is finally here! Keep reading and find out every difference. Why do Twitter refugees choose Mastodon? First of all, Elon Musk is not there! Many users began to look for new alternatives after Elon Musk takeover Twitter. Is it the only reason? Of course, not.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

<strong>The long read</strong>: One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to try to understand this strange affliction

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

As you'd expect, it didn't take long for someone from Nvidia's machine learning group to fire back. Read Entire Article Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger believes Nvidia's dominance in AI is more the result of luck and not necessarily the software and hardware that Team Green has been developing over the past several years.

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MAY 10, 2024

Specifically, how long is the period during which rightsholders can recover damages for copyright infringement? This means that the 2008 infringements expired a long time ago. As long as the lawsuit is filed within three years of discovering an infringement, damages can be claimed no matter when the infringement occurred.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this post, I explore the different aspects of the Collector: The data kind: logs, metrics, and tracesPush and pull modelsOperations: reads, transformations, and writes First steps A long time ago, observabilit I wanted to explore it further.

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JULY 4, 2023

I’m making freely available the first version of something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. However, I’ve been reading reports that Julia is a pretty efficient programming language (here and here, for example). I need my code to run … Continue reading CheatSheet for coding in R, Python and Julia

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

<strong>The long read</strong>: After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious

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JULY 25, 2023

The days when GPUs were only used for graphics rendering in games are long gone. Read Entire Article Join us as we look at how the processor became the dominant chip in compute and AI.

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APRIL 9, 2024

While long-context large language models (LLMs) can technically summarize book-length documents (>100K tokens), the length and complexity of the documents have so far prohibited evaluations of input-dependent aspects like faithfulness.

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