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Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-10 22:06:34

Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form. The

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 18:54:00

BrianFagioli writes: Linux Mint has reclaimed its position as the top-ranked Linux distribution on DistroWatch, dethroning MX Linux. The latest page hit rankings, which reflect the popularity of distributions among DistroWatch users, place Linux Mint in fi

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-10 18:19:14

Brandon Silverman: It was September of 2011 and I saw a link on kottke.org to a small collection of incredible typography from something called the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. I had never seen them before and they blew my mind. I immediately became

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 18:16:12

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Baeldung @ 2024-12-10 17:56:31

Learn about Swagger and HATEOAS, with some application examples highlighting the main differences.              

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 17:41:52

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Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-10 17:37:06

Quantum 8, 1558 (2024). Quantum signal processing (QSP) represents a real scalar polynomial of degree $d$ using a product of unitary matrices of size $2\times 2$, parameterized by $(d+1)$ real numbers called th

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 17:34:02

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Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-10 17:21:08

Quantum 8, 1557 (2024). Quantum state preparation plays a crucial role in several areas of quantum information science, in applications such as quantum simulation, quantum metrology and quantum computing. Howev

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-10 17:12:17

Quantum 8, 1556 (2024). Error-mitigation techniques such as probabilistic error cancellation and zero-noise extrapolation benefit from accurate noise models. The sparse Pauli-Lindblad noise model is one of the

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-10 16:57:24

El campeón del mundo sub-16 sube 13 puntos Elo y firma una de las partidas más interesantes del torneo en su quinta edición

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 16:40:00

Cable industry lobbyists have urged the Federal Communications Commission to avoid regulating data caps and overage charges, comparing broadband plans to restaurant menus in a filing last week. NCTA - The Internet & Television Association argued that

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-10 16:22:37

Quantum 8, 1555 (2024). Quantum sensors offer control flexibility during estimation by allowing manipulation by the experimenter across various parameters. For each sensing platform, pinpointing the optimal con

old new thing @ 2024-12-10 16:00:00

If you have already infiltrated the process, then you can disable things from the inside. The post It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Disabling anti-malware scanning appeared first on The Old New Thing .

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 15:40:00

Microsoft, trying to mitigate the climate impact of its data center building boom, is starting to roll out a new design that uses zero water to cool the facilities' chips and servers. From a report: Launched in August, the new design will eliminate the mor

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 15:33:20

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Martin Fowler @ 2024-12-10 15:22:00

Once we've designed our initial data products, Kiran Prakash finishes his article by leading us through the next steps : identifying common patterns, improving the developer experience, and handling governance. more…

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 15:16:54

Hi HN, we’re JJ and Mark, the founders of Double ( ). Double lets you invest in 50+ broad stock market indexes with 0% expense ratios. We handle all the management, including rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting—proactively selling

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 14:40:00

China should focus on developing original technologies and scientific knowledge and leverage the expertise of scientists returning from the United States, according to a top Chinese-American mathematician. From a report: Yau Shing-Tung retired from Harvard

Confluent @ 2024-12-10 14:00:03

Confluent Platform 7.8 brings Confluent Platform for Apache Flink® (GA), mTLS Identity for RBAC Authorization, and more.

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-10 13:46:24

Quantum 8, 1554 (2024). The parity mapping provides a geometrically local encoding of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), at the expense of having a quadratic qubit overhead for all-to-all co

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-10 13:30:16

Quantum 8, 1553 (2024). How well can quantum computers simulate classical dynamical systems? There is increasing effort in developing quantum algorithms to efficiently simulate dynamics beyond Hamiltonian simul

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 12:45:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon on Tuesday said it is piloting a quick commerce service in India that will see the U.S. tech giant delivering grocery and other items in 15 minutes or less. [...] The quick-commerce model -- delivering items to

InfoQ @ 2024-12-10 12:30:00

Netflix engineers recently published a deep dive into their Distributed Counter Abstraction, a scalable service designed to track user interactions, feature usage, and business performance metrics with low latency. The system balances performance, accura

AEON @ 2024-12-10 12:00:00

The progressive and remarkably innovative Woodmead School briefly flourished amid the viciousness of apartheid South Africa - by David Dyzenhaus Read at Aeon

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 11:03:00

As tech giants struggle to profit from AI, a growing industry of specialized AI training firms is emerging by hiring doctors, radiologists and other experts to develop commercially viable applications. The $20 billion data services sector, projected to gro

InfoQ @ 2024-12-10 11:00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched S3 Metadata, enhancing data management for S3 users. This new capability enables near real-time querying and analysis of S3 data via organized metadata updates. By adopting Apache Iceberg, it ensures interoperabilit

brucknerite @ 2024-12-10 10:00:00

En 2025 comenzará, en una ubicación en el cantón suizo de Neuchâtel, un proyecto piloto de tres años para instalar paneles solares sobre vías férreas anclándolos sobre las traviesas. La empresa Sun-Ways ha desarrollado una interesante innovación que permit

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 09:00:48

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slashdot @ 2024-12-10 07:35:00

China's high-speed rail network, which has tripled to nearly 30,000 miles under President Xi Jinping's leadership, faces mounting financial challenges amid aggressive expansion plans. China State Railway Group, the national operator, has accumulated nearly

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-10 05:55:30

Finally , Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week. U.S. domestic orders placed by the end of the day Wednesday should arrive before Christmas. International orders — even t

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 05:00:00

An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland -- arid areas where agriculture is difficult -- in the past three decades, research has found. From a report: Drylands now make up 40% of all land on Earth, exclud

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 04:30:32

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 04:12:12

It's the time of the year again, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up. Previously asked on: 2023 → 2022 → 2021 →

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 03:55:00

Malaysian lawmakers voted in favor of broadening the government's control over the internet, unmoved by criticism that the law risks suppressing dissent and free speech. From a report: Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil told parliament Monday that the go

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-10 03:31:11

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slashdot @ 2024-12-10 01:30:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through solar geoengineering. That includes controversial technologies used to reflect sunl

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-10 01:29:46

Connection is primal. The post The Kinship Issue appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-10 01:29:07

Living with a Papua New Guinea tribe in the ’80s presented this anthropologist with a question for today. The post How Big Is Your Family? appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-10 01:28:12

Stellar bodies from other galaxies are all around us. The post Star Siblings Tell Tales of Galactic Chaos appeared first on Nautilus .

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-10 01:27:22

Taking responsibility for another’s young reveals the deep evolutionary roots of care. The post Why Do Animals Adopt? appeared first on Nautilus .

Ethereum blog @ 2024-12-10 01:00:00

We firmly believe that information is a public good that should be freely shared within the community. In line with this philosophy, in 2022 we initiated a series of grants to support academic research to foster knowledge and further enhance the Ethereum e

Inside Java @ 2024-12-10 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved and it covers the possibility to include other properties files in the java.security security properties file.

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-10 01:00:00

The world of telecommunications is fast-paced, and so the need for agile, innovative, and efficient solutions is crucial. Open Radio Access Networks (open RAN) are at the forefront of this transformation, enabling service providers to break free from tradi

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-10 01:00:00

An automation community of practice can be a cornerstone of your organizational strategy to adopt automation at scale. Yet there’s a challenge: how do we know if the community is healthy and driving you towards your strategic goals around automation?The va

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-10 01:00:00

It’s easy to tick the checkboxes on a compliance checklist with the mindset that your system is protected and not exposed to risk. If it is this simple, why do we continue to invest billions of dollars in developing security controls and software developme

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-10 00:53:33

It is the Night of the Living App! After over a decade, CoverSutra is back — reimagined as a sleek, standalone music player for your Mac. CoverSutra lives in your menu bar, giving you seamless access to your music library. Instantly search by album, a

slashdot @ 2024-12-10 00:00:00

Over 300 musicians have signed an open letter defending the Internet Archive against a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its preservation of 78 rpm records. The letter, organized by Fight for the Future, opposes the lawsuit filed by major re

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 23:56:44

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 23:56:27

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Baeldung @ 2024-12-09 23:25:59

A quick tutorial on sharing data between steps in Cucumber.              

Baeldung @ 2024-12-09 23:19:28

Introduction to the libGDX library for game development in Java.              

Baeldung @ 2024-12-09 23:15:24

Tutorial on how to fix the "Unable to Find a Region via the Region Provider Chain" Error in the AWS SDK.              

Baeldung @ 2024-12-09 23:06:04

Learn how to use transmittable-thread-local library to overcome multithreading and security issues.              

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-09 23:05:27

Thousands of new genes are hidden inside the “dark matter” of our genome. Previously thought to be noise left over from evolution, a new study found that some of these tiny DNA snippets can make miniproteins—potentially opening a new universe of treatments

Baeldung @ 2024-12-09 23:01:41

Learn to read properties files storing configuration values.              

slashdot @ 2024-12-09 23:00:00

chiguy writes: In October, a jury in a federal class-action lawsuit returned a verdict that found Cognizant intentionally discriminated against more than 2,000 non-Indian employees between 2013 and 2022. The verdict, which echoed a previously undisclosed f

slashdot @ 2024-12-09 22:22:00

ChatGPT maker OpenAI released its AI-generated video tool called Sora for general use by its paying customers Monday. From a report: The company then said it would do wide testing with creatives and red-teaming with security experts before its release to t

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 22:17:28

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 20:19:07

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 20:01:17

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Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 19:02:10

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The Endeavour @ 2024-12-09 18:36:39

A logarithmic scale is very useful when you need to plot data over an extremely wide range. However, sometimes even a logarithmic scale may not reduce the visual range enough. I recently saw a timeline-like graph that was coiled into a spiral, packing mor

slashdot @ 2024-12-09 18:15:00

Google has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum error correction that could enable practical quantum computers by 2030, the company announced in a paper published Monday in Nature. The research demonstrated significant error reduction when scaling up f

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-09 17:38:04

Quantum 8, 1552 (2024). Fault tolerant quantum computers repetitively apply a four-step procedure: First, perform a few one and two-qubit quantum gates. Second, perform a syndrome measurement on a subset of the

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 17:28:23

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Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-09 17:00:28

In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. The post Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold first

slashdot @ 2024-12-09 17:00:00

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts conversational AI will become the primary way people interact with technology, replacing traditional web browsers and search engines within the next few years. In an interview with The Verge, Suleyman, who oversee

Confluent @ 2024-12-09 16:35:37

Integrating Vertex AI with Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud empowers you to leverage the best of both worlds: real-time data processing and advanced machine learning.

old new thing @ 2024-12-09 16:00:00

Understanding what you asked the compiler to do, and why it couldn't comply. The post Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Failing to create a <CODE>shared_ptr</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing .

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-09 15:04:01

How many ways can you select six points in the plane so that every subset of three points forms the vertices of an isosceles triangle? This is a question asked by Erdős and recently resolved. One solution is to choose the five vertices of a regular pentag

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-09 14:40:45

El campeón produce una de sus mejores partidas de los últimos años precisamente cuando necesitaba ganar para equilibrar el marcador

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 14:17:07

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InfoQ @ 2024-12-09 14:00:00

Jake Zimmerman, Technical Lead of Sorbet at Stripe, and Getty Ritter, Ruby Infrastructure Engineer at Stripe, presented Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases at the 2024 QCon San Francisco conference. Zimmerman and Ritter demonstrated how to fix complai

InfoQ @ 2024-12-09 13:00:00

Kotlin 2.1.0 introduces new syntax, including guard conditions, non-local break and continue, and multi-dollar string interpolation. Additionally, it extends its multiplatform capabilities and improves the K2 compiler. By Sergio De Simone

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 12:48:45

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AEON @ 2024-12-09 12:01:00

Reviving the nearly lost printing processes of Shakespeare’s day is a labour of love and an act of connection with the past - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2024-12-09 12:00:00

It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt - by Daniel Linford Read at Aeon

Use Your Loaf @ 2024-12-09 11:59:14

A quick guide to migrating XCTest unit tests to Swift Testing. What is Swift Testing? Swift Testing is an open-source testing framework designed for Swift. Apple introduced it at WWDC24 and shipped it with Xcode 16. Swift Testing uses modern feature

InfoQ @ 2024-12-09 11:03:00

Amazon has announced Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models designed for generative AI tasks. The announcement, made during AWS re:Invent, highlights the models' capabilities in tasks such as document and video analysis, chart comprehension, video co

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 08:19:19

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InfoQ @ 2024-12-09 07:02:00

The 2024 edition of re:Invent has just ended in Las Vegas. As anticipated, AI was a key focus of the conference, with Amazon Nova and a new version of Sagemaker among the most significant highlights. However, the announcement that generated the most exci

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-12-09 05:36:09

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InfoQ @ 2024-12-09 03:30:00

This week's Java roundup for December 2nd, 2024 features news highlighting: JDK 24 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 25 Expert Group; the release of Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile and Spring Cloud 2024.0.0; and point releases for GlassFish, Ope

Ethereum blog @ 2024-12-09 01:00:00

The following is an update from Next Billion Fellow Mulenga Kapwepwe and her initiative "Summitshare". For more about the Next Billion Fellowship Program and to apply, please visit Mulenga Kapwepwe, founder of the Women’

Inside Java @ 2024-12-09 01:00:00

This Heads-Up is part of the regular communication sent to the projects involved, it covers JEP 472's preparation of restricted access to native code through JNI and the FFM API.

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-09 01:00:00

Virtualization continues to play an increasingly critical role in the enterprise technology landscape. As part of this evolution, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization offers a pathway for organizations looking to modernize and consolidate workloads. Finding to

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-09 01:00:00

The software industry has started developing a vast array of artificial intelligence (AI) applications based on large language models (LLMs). While many security threats to LLMs are similar to those affecting traditional software, LLMs and their applicatio

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-09 00:00:00

Mark Gurman, in his Power On column for Bloomberg: Apple is now working on a major effort to support third-party hand controllers in the device’s visionOS software and has teamed up with Sony Group Corp. to make it happen. Apple approached Sony earlie

Computational Complexity @ 2024-12-08 23:55:00

In Lance's last post (see here ) he listed his favorite theorems from 1965 to 2024. There are roughly 60 Theorems. I mostly agree with his choices and omissions. I will point out where I don't. I could make a comment on every single entry; however, tha

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-08 22:55:23

My thanks to 1Password — which, earlier this year, acquired frequent DF sponsor Kolide  — for sponsoring last week at DF. Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8,000 for popcorn. Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbel

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-08 14:02:30

El campeón del mundo sale airoso de una posición muy difícil y logra clara ventaja pero pierde porque no soporta la tensión

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-08 02:41:43

This post was motivated by an exercise in [1] that says Prove that for the hyperbolic functions … formulas hold similar to those in Section 2.3 with all the minuses replaced by pluses. My first thought was that this sounds like Osborn’s rule, a heur

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-12-08 01:17:51

It’s been taking me forever to sort out and write down the details of implications of the proposal described here. While waiting for that to be done, I thought it might be a good idea to write up one piece … Continue reading →

Baeldung @ 2024-12-07 17:59:02

By leveraging Java's CompletableFuture, we can take advantage of non-blocking operations, task chaining, and robust exception handling.              

Baeldung @ 2024-12-07 17:56:29

Explore the key Spring AI features that can help create an AI assistant.              

Baeldung @ 2024-12-07 17:52:39

Ever wondered why some parts of your Java code using collections mysteriously crash? It all boils down to how those collections handle null values! Learn the hidden rules behind ArrayLists, HashSets, TreeMaps, HashMaps, and null values.    

Baeldung @ 2024-12-07 17:39:32

Explore these TestNG annotations in detail, understand how they differ, and explore the scenarios where each is most appropriate.              

Baeldung @ 2024-12-07 17:35:46

Advanced options allow developers to fine-tune performance, diagnose issues, and experiment with cutting-edge features.              

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-07 16:00:22

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The GPT Era Is Already Ending Matteo Wong | The Atlantic “[OpenAI] has been unusually direct that the o1 series is the future: Chen, who has since been promoted to senior vice president of research, told me that OpenAI is

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-07 13:05:30

El campeón del mundo plantea las partidas con blancas sin riesgo alguno, de modo que el empate como mínimo esté casi asegurado

InfoQ @ 2024-12-07 11:00:00

AWS Transfer Family's new web apps offer a user-friendly, no-code solution for secure access to Amazon S3 data. Designed for non-technical users, these fully managed portals simplify file management and enhance security with AWS IAM integration. Easily c

InfoQ @ 2024-12-07 07:33:00

Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost. The incident impacted most customers using the service, with a misconfiguration triggeri

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-07 05:00:00

While there is no subscription offering for Daring Fireball (never say never again ), I am reminded this week to remind you that, if you enjoy podcasts, you should subscribe to Dithering, the twice-weekly 15-minutes-on-the-button podcast I do wi

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-12-07 02:53:40

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published a book arguing that the Earth revolves around the Sun: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. This is sometimes painted as a sudden triumph of rationality over the foolish yet long-standing belief that the Sun and all t

Physics Phorums @ 2024-12-07 02:53:40

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published a book arguing that the Earth revolves around the Sun: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. This is sometimes painted as a sudden triumph of rationality over the foolish yet long-standing belief that the Sun and all t

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-07 00:41:31

Late-breaking candidate for best new font of 2024.  ★ 

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-06 20:01:20

A warming climate may cause more bird couples to break up. The post When Songbird Couples Split appeared first on Nautilus .

iOS Weekly @ 2024-12-06 19:30:00

Comment There’s not a lot going on this week, so I’ll just share that I’m really enjoying Bluesky with its recent surge in popularity . I don’t think there will ever be another "centralised" social media co

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-06 19:14:33

This was another year of rollercoaster weather. Heat domes broiled the US southwest. California experienced a “second summer” in October, with multiple cities breaking heat records. Hurricane Helene—and just a few weeks later, Hurricane Milton—pummeled the

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-06 19:13:11

If I had wanted to write a column about presidential pardons, I’d find ChatGPT’s assistance a far better starting point than I’d have gotten through any general web search. But to quote Reagan: “Trust, but verify.”

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-06 16:28:22

Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup. The post Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound first appeared on Quanta Ma

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-12-06 16:00:11

Attachment 2 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been amended to specify requirements for use of the In-App Purchase API. Please review the changes and accept the updated terms in your account. View the full terms and conditions Tra

old new thing @ 2024-12-06 16:00:00

Look closely at what the error message is complaining about. The post Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Nonsensical errors from a function declaration appeared first on The Old New Thing .

InfoQ @ 2024-12-06 14:48:00

Denys Linkov's QCon San Francisco 2024 talk dissected the complexities of evaluating large language models (LLMs). He advocated for nuanced micro-metrics, robust observability, and alignment with business objectives to enhance model performance. Linkov’s

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-06 12:30:51

Con cuatro victorias, cinco tablas y una derrota, el prodigio argentino afronta el 4º la última ronda del Campeonato de Argentina

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-12-06 12:25:47

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 489 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePodcast A, ApplePodcast B], titulado “SDO y SoHO; Protocélulas; Multimodal Universe; Acoplamiento Molecular”, 05 dic 2024. «La tertulia semanal en [&#

AEON @ 2024-12-06 12:00:00

In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum - by Collin Jennings Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-12-06 10:30:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released Predictive Scaling for Amazon ECS, an advanced scaling policy that employs machine learning (ML) algorithms to anticipate demand surges, ensuring applications remain highly available and responsive while minimi

daniel.haxx.se @ 2024-12-06 08:48:38

On December 5 2024 I held a brief webinar explaining the ideas and concepts behind Rock-solid curl, and I figured I would just share the video here: See also: rock-solid.curl.dev

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-06 03:54:00

Purely fun, pay-whatever-you-think-fair app for the Mac from Simon Støvring (developer of numerous fine apps such as Runestone and Scriptable ): Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak th

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-06 03:52:45

David Frum, writing at The Atlantic, regarding his jarring appearance as a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe : Before getting to the article, I was asked about the nomination of Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense — specifically about an NBC News report

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-06 02:24:01

Oliver Darcy, in a well-sourced report at Status (paywalled, alas, but with a preview of the article if you sign up for the free version of his newsletter, which I agree is sort of a “ Yeah, no thanks ” offer): Patrick Soon-Shiong is tightening his gr

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-06 01:00:00

For many years, software virtualization has allowed retailers to deliver improved store-based applications without the need to add hardware capacity. Customer-facing applications such as stock control and customer loyalty programs, and colleague-facing app

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-06 01:00:00

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Established as the Leader in Infrastructure Automation by Industry Research FirmRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform has been named the leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platf

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-05 23:25:13

Harvard and MIT humanist chaplain Greg M. Epstein on his 3 greatest revelations while writing Tech Agnostic. The post Is Technology Worthy of Our Faith? appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-05 22:28:30

Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for The Information (paywalled, alas): Researchers at OpenAI believe that some rival AI developers are training their reasoning models by using OpenAI’s o1 reasoning models to generate training data, according to a person

The Endeavour @ 2024-12-05 21:00:28

The vis-viva equation greatly simplifies some calculations in orbital mechanics. It is reminiscent of how conservation of energy can sometimes trivialize what appears to be a complicated problem. In fact, the vis-viva equation is derived from conservation

Singularity Hub @ 2024-12-05 19:19:08

Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and hazardous terrain. An automated cyborg cockroach factory could help bring the id

Deepmind @ 2024-12-05 18:45:00

Advancing adaptive AI agents, empowering 3D scene creation, and innovating LLM training for a smarter, safer future

InfoQ @ 2024-12-05 18:30:00

PHPStan, a static analysis tool for PHP recently released its version 2.0. This release launches new features and improvements related to enhancing code analysis, performance, and user experience. By Aditya Kulkarni

Kotlin Blog @ 2024-12-05 17:39:15

KotlinConf has always been about more than just code – it’s where ideas spark, skills develop, and the Kotlin community comes together to share knowledge, connect, and celebrate.  While we’re still crafting the 2025 program (stay tuned for the big rev

Kotlin news @ 2024-12-05 17:39:15

KotlinConf has always been about more than just code – it’s where ideas spark, skills develop, and the Kotlin community comes together to share knowledge, connect, and celebrate.  While we’re still crafting the 2025 program (stay tuned for the big rev

InfoQ @ 2024-12-05 16:36:00

The Allen Institute for AI research team has introduced OLMo 2, a new family of open-source language models available in 7 billion (7B) and 13 billion (13B) parameter configurations. Trained on up to 5 trillion tokens, these models redefine training stab

Baeldung @ 2024-12-05 16:29:52

The ecosystem is evolving, as always              

old new thing @ 2024-12-05 16:00:00

It depends on how long you plan on waiting. The post Won’t waiting for multiple threads one at a time introduce a severe performance issue? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-05 15:41:31

Cells in our bodies are constantly dying — and these countless tiny deaths are essential to human health and multicellular life itself. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with cellular biologist Shai Shaham about what makes a cell “alive” and

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-05 14:03:44

El campeón firma sin sufrir un empate con negras y gana confianza a cinco partidas del final en Singapur

InfoQ @ 2024-12-05 12:45:00

Enzyme’s lack of support for React 18 made their existing unit tests unusable and jeopardized the foundational confidence they provided, Sergii Gorbachov said at QCon San Francisco. He showed how Slack migrated all Enzyme tests to React Testing Library (

AEON @ 2024-12-05 12:01:00

‘Tiny problems become big ones when tigers are involved’: the day a young (and reckless) animal keeper danced with death - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

AEON @ 2024-12-05 12:00:00

How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott - by Reyko Huang Read at Aeon

InfoQ @ 2024-12-05 11:00:00

AWS has unveiled the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling seamless VMware Cloud Foundation integration within Amazon VPC. This innovative service simplifies VMware workload migration and management in the cloud, allowing swift deployment and opt

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-12-05 10:03:02

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 488 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [iVoox A, iVoox B; ApplePodcast A, ApplePodcast B], titulado “Cosmología; DESI; South Pole Telescope; Cuerdas Oscuras; Disrupción de Marea”, 28 nov 2024. «La tertulia […

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-05 03:27:12

From The Stanford Review editor-in-chief Julia Steinberg’s interview with university president Jonathan Levin: Stanford Review: What is the most important problem in the world right now? President Levin: There’s no answer to that question. There

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-05 02:44:01

Alex Heath, writing at The Verge: “I’m actually very optimistic this time around,” Bezos said of Trump during a rare public appearance at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. “He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. If

Rust blog @ 2024-12-05 01:00:00

It’s time for the 2024 State of Rust Survey ! Since 2016, the Rust Project has collected valuable information and feedback from the Rust programming language community through our annual State of Rust Survey . This tool allows us to more deeply unders

Inside Java @ 2024-12-05 01:00:00

Java 24's feature list contains a whopping 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals. Here, we're going to look at the language and API changes: from pattern matching primitives to flexible constructor bodies, from stream gatherers to the class-file API, and from quant

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-05 01:00:00

The Southeast Asian semiconductor industry is emerging as a major global force, poised for exponential growth in the coming years. With countries like Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam playing pivotal roles, the region now accounts for signi

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-05 01:00:00

The parties complete initial key phase for independent O-Cloud developmentOn its mission to become the leading digital service provider, Deutsche Telekom has pioneered open RAN since it co-founded the xRAN Forum in 2016, leading to the formation of the O-R

Red Hat blog @ 2024-12-05 01:00:00

This is the first of a series of articles in which we will share how confidential computing (a set of hardware and software technologies designed to protect data in use) can be integrated into the Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Our goal is to enhance data secu

Nautilus blog @ 2024-12-05 00:55:45

Jennifer Raff is on a mission to rewrite the history of human origins in the Americas. The post An Archaeological Reckoning appeared first on Nautilus .

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-05 00:31:32

While writing the previous item regarding the FBI encouraging the use of E2EE text and call protocols, I wound up at the Play Store page for Google Messages. It’s shamefully misleading regarding Google Messages’s support for end-to-end encryption. As I

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-05 00:30:08

Buy with AWS enables you to seamlessly discover and purchase products available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner websites using your AWS account.

Timescale blog @ 2024-12-04 22:42:37

Record counting on demand or denormalized counters? We break down the two and show you an alternative using PostgreSQL.

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-04 20:57:31

Kevin Collier, reporting for NBC News: Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidd

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-12-04 19:41:47

He participado en el podcast Soles Lejanos 2.0 de David Minayo, hablando de nuevo sobre la inteligencia artificial, con concreto sobre la consciencia artificial y el posthumanismo. Lo puedes disfrutar en […] La entrada Francis en Soles Lejanos 2.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 19:21:16

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes help customers get started with training and fine-tuning popular publicly available foundation models, like Llama 3.1 405B, in just minutes with state-of-the-art performance.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 19:13:13

Amazon commits $100M to empower education equity initiatives, enabling socially-minded organizations to create AI-powered digital learning solutions. This aims to reach underserved students globally through innovative platforms, apps, and assistants.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 18:57:51

Find solutions to your most critical business challenges with ease. Amazon Q in QuickSight enables business users to perform complex scenario analysis up to 10x faster than spreadsheets.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 18:56:37

Q Developer empowers non-ML experts to build ML models using natural language, enabling organizations to innovate faster with reduced time to market.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 18:38:16

Build responsible AI applications - Safeguard them against harmful text and image content with configurable filters and thresholds.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 18:35:20

Amazon Bedrock enhances generative AI data analysis with multimodal processing, graph modeling, and structured querying, accelerating AI application development.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 18:22:27

Route requests and cache frequently used context in prompts to reduce latency and balance performance with cost efficiency.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 18:16:36

Discover, test, and use over 100 emerging, and specialized foundation models with the tooling, security, and governance provided by Amazon Bedrock.

Confluent @ 2024-12-04 18:10:50

The recent release of mutual TLS (mTLS) on Confluent Cloud and Amazon Redshift has enabled the streaming of Confluent topics to Amazon Redshift materialized views.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 17:57:34

Unlock efficient large model training with SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans - find optimal compute resources and complete training within timelines and budgets.

AWS Blog @ 2024-12-04 17:57:30

Enable priority-based resource allocation, fair-share utilization, and automated task preemption for optimal compute utilization across teams.

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-04 17:43:40

Quantum 8, 1551 (2024). The exponential convergence to invariant subspaces of quantum Markov semigroups plays a crucial role in quantum information theory. One such example is in bosonic error correction scheme

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-04 17:34:47

Quantum 8, 1550 (2024). Quasiprobability has become an increasingly popular notion for characterising non-classicality in quantum information, thermodynamics, and metrology. Two important distributions with non

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-04 17:13:04

Quantum 8, 1549 (2024). We present a classical algorithm for simulating universal quantum circuits composed of "free" nearest-neighbour matchgates or equivalently fermionic-linear-optical (FLO) gates, a

Deepmind @ 2024-12-04 16:59:00

New AI model advances the prediction of weather uncertainties and risks, delivering faster, more accurate forecasts up to 15 days ahead

Martin Fowler @ 2024-12-04 16:36:00

Having got an initial data product, Kiran Prakash leads us through the next steps: covering similar uses cases to generalize the data product, determining which domains the products fit into, and considering service level objectives. more…

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-12-04 16:32:58

La inseguridad de Ding cuando había logrado estabilizar la posición le pone al borde del abismo, pero el indio no acierta

old new thing @ 2024-12-04 16:00:00

If you use a wrapper, you need to follow the wrapper's rules. The post Why does my DLL reference count go up by one every time I create and exit a thread? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-12-04 15:51:43

While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives. The post The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-04 15:27:31

Quantum 8, 1548 (2024). Gate-teleportation circuits are arguably among the most basic examples of computations believed to provide a quantum computational advantage: In seminal work [ 1 ], Terhal and DiVincenzo

Deepmind @ 2024-12-04 15:23:00

Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents

TED Blog @ 2024-12-04 15:00:35

As 2024 wraps up, join us in celebrating the most popular, mind-blowing and must-watch TED Talks published this year. From cutting-edge AI to climate breakthroughs and transformative insights on human potential, our curated end-of-year-lists capture a comp

Computational Complexity @ 2024-12-04 14:58:00

Now in one place all of my sixty favorite theorems from the six decades of computational complexity (1965-2024). 2015-2024 Graph Isomorphism  (Babai) Sensitivity  (Huang) Quantum Provers  (Ji-Natarajan-Vidick-Wright-Yuen) Dicho

Quantum Journal @ 2024-12-04 14:52:37

Quantum 8, 1547 (2024). Without a complete theory of quantum gravity, the question of how quantum fields and quantum particles behave in a superposition of spacetimes seems beyond the reach of theoretical and e

AEON @ 2024-12-04 12:01:00

China does not allow assisted reproduction for unmarried women. So now they travel to the US for egg-freezing treatments - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

brucknerite @ 2024-12-04 10:00:00

Escribía ayer por aquí acerca de la tracción con hidrógeno del ferrocarril. Ya visteis que, para entender ciertas cosas, es inevitable recurrir a un contexto más amplio. Precisamente de este contexto, y no solo de desarrollos tecnológicos concretos, se ded

This Week in Rust @ 2024-12-04 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWee

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-12-04 03:41:05

The Eighth International Conference on Applied Category Theory ( will take place at the University of Florida on June 2-6, 2025. The conference will be preceded by the Adjoint School on May 26-30, 2025. This conference fol

Physics Phorums @ 2024-12-04 03:41:05

The Eighth International Conference on Applied Category Theory ( will take place at the University of Florida on June 2-6, 2025. The conference will be preceded by the Adjoint School on May 26-30, 2025. This conference fol

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-04 03:31:28

A few nuggets of wisdom from Andy Grove, in an interview with Esquire after he retired as Intel’s CEO, but still served as chairman: Profits are the lifeblood of enterprise. Don’t let anyone tell you different. You must understand your mistakes.

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-04 02:33:47

Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn. Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available in first class. Your sense of outraged injustice would probably be something like what IT and sec

Daring Fireball @ 2024-12-04 01:02:25

Grove’s words don’t read merely as advice — they read today as a postmortem for what happed to Intel over the last 20 years.

Ethereum blog @ 2024-12-04 01:00:00

Devcon has always been a living reflection of Ethereum’s growth, challenges, and community ambitions. It showcases the most pressing topics, the newest innovations, and the people building the future of decentralized technology. As Ethereum grows, so too d

Inside Java @ 2024-12-04 01:00:00

The Inside Java Newsletter for November 2024 highlights the Java Platform Group's technical sessions from Devoxx Belgium, the latest videos from Java Developer Relations, JavaOne early registration, conference updates from around the world, and interviews