Replacement PCB Replicates Early 80s Modem
A WiFi replacement for your external Hayes Smartmodem Now with simulated audio dialing! The WiFi Retromodem is a non-destructive replacement of the PCB in an external Hayes Smartmodem 1200 or 2400. Note: while it will fit in the later Smartmodems, the LEDs of the Retromodem in the Hayes Optima series aluminum cases are offset slightly […]
Bridging empirical-theoretical gap in neural network formal language learning
Abstract:Neural networks offer good approximation to many tasks but consistently fail to reach perfect generalization, even when theoretical work shows that such perfect solutions can be expressed by certain architectures. Using the task of formal language learning, we focus on one simple formal language and show that the theoretically correct solution is in fact not […]
Stepful (YC S21) is hiring a product engineer in New York
Stepful partners with healthcare institutions to build talent pipelines and career pathways. We are reimagining allied healthcare training with a digital-first environment for student cohorts that prepare job-ready graduates five times faster at a fraction of the cost. Stepful graduates, primarily from underrepresented communities, go on to work at leading healthcare institutions and report an […]
How to optimally trap points in high-dimensional spaces inside ellipsoids
In this post we study how to trap a set of points in high dimensions inside an ellipsoid with minimal volume (John, 1948). This problem has applications in statistics and outlier detection, but my motivation for studying this problem is to be able to represent “uncertainty sets” for doing Robust Optimization. Please see this post […]
Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support
Ory Kratos v1.1 is the most complete, most scalable, and most secure open-source identity server on the planet, and we are thrilled to announce its release! This release comes with over 270 commits and an incredible amount of new features and capabilities! Don’t forget to leave a GitHub star and check out our other open […]
Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
In this article T Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A worker climbs on a cellular communication tower in Oakland, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including […]
A peek at Intel’s future foundry tech
8 min read A map of Intel’s future Clearwater Forest CPU is useful to explain the technologies Intel will offer through its foundry services. In an exclusive interview ahead of an invite-only event today in San Jose, Intel outlined new chip technologies it will offer its foundry customers by sharing a glimpse into its future […]
The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children
My child is 3 years old. I was looking for a game that we could play together and would be her first programming-like activity. I wasn’t keen to teach her anything specifically but rather offer her the option to explore what coding or algorithmic thinking tasted like (similarly when you would give your child a […]
LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2M Tokens
Abstract:Large context window is a desirable feature in large language models (LLMs). However, due to high fine-tuning costs, scarcity of long texts, and catastrophic values introduced by new token positions, current extended context windows are limited to around 128k tokens. This paper introduces LongRoPE that, for the first time, extends the context window of pre-trained […]
LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
LilyPond LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project. Beautiful Sheet Music LilyPond is a powerful and flexible tool for engraving tasks of all kinds, for example classical […]