Being fatter than Homer Simpson
Growing up through the 90’s meant growing up with the Simpsons. I still remember watching it for the first time on BBC One, not long after the Muppets, and quoting it over and over. One of my favourite episodes that always sticks in my mind is King Size Homer, where he tries to weigh over […]
Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia
“At first,” Chamroeun, a deminer and former soldier and a friend of mine, told me, “I thought of rats as pests, but now I think of them as my very best friends.” His was a common sentiment among the demining platoon whose members were largely former soldiers turned deminers; they caressed the rats each morning […]
Releasing v1 of GPT-JT, fork of GPT-6B fine-tuned on 3.53B tokens
The power of openness Our journey building GPT-JT starts from the open checkpoint of GPT-J-6B. We incorporated the collection of techniques mentioned above and continued pre-train given the GPT-J-6B model. We first conduct training for 2.62 billion tokens using the UL2 loss, followed by 0.92 billion tokens of a loss that is a mixture of […]
U.S. government to backstop mortgages above $1M for the first time
WASHINGTON—The federal government is about to backstop mortgages of more than $1 million for the first time in high-cost markets, such as parts of California and New York. The increase reflects the rapid appreciation in home prices over the past few years, even as the mortgage market has recently cooled. The maximum size of home-mortgage […]
Public Beneficial Ownership Registers Advance Anti-Corruption
A few months ago, we learned the extent to which the world’s rich and powerful have been offshoring their wealth in Luxembourg, a small country in the heart of Europe. What’s more, individuals suspected of corruption or under investigation for various crimes in their home countries have apparently been able to hide behind Luxembourgish companies […]
$50SAT
$50SAT (Eagle2) was successfully launched using a Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky Air Base on 21/11/13 as part of the UNISAT-5 satellite program from the GAUSS team, further details here www.gaussteam.com $50SAT operated for far longer than the team expected. It was last heard from on 19/07/15. The battery and solar cells had significantly degraded and its […]
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
This has been my most ambitious project yet. I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned a new programming language called Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images pictured on the cards above using an AI […]
No Privacy in the Electronics Repair Industry
arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. […]
Show HN: A userscript that adds archive URLs below the paywalled HN submissions
GitHub – MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall: A userscript for HackerNews that points out paywalled articles and provides anti-paywall urls. {{ message }} This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or […]
The Mall Only Has 3 Stores
My small contribution to raise your level of consciousness as you transition from buying food to buying … more things. Americans think they have a lot of choice – but most of the brands they buy are wholly or partially owned by only a handful of companies. Don’t believe me? Pick an industry and see […]