The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam
Letter from Vermont The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam A federal program promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the country. It soon became rife with fraud. By Sheelah Kolhatkar January 29, 2024 When the scheme became public, Vermont’s governor said, “We all feel betrayed.”Illustration by Álvaro Bernis Save […]
FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinter: Automate Creation of YouTube Shorts Using MoviePy
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Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
In today’s fast-paced AI landscape, developers face numerous challenges when it comes to building applications that use large language models (LLMs). In particular, the scarcity of GPUs, which are traditionally required for running LLMs, poses a significant hurdle. In this post, we introduce you to a novel solution that allows developers to harness the power […]
Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Disney is investing $1.5 billion for a stake in Epic Games, CEO Bob Iger said Wednesday, in its biggest bet yet on the gaming space. The media giant will work with the Fortnite studio to create new games […]
Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU holds its own against x86 for HPC
In many ways, the “Grace” CG100 server processor created by Nvidia – its first true server CPU and a very useful adjunct for extending the memory space of its “Hopper” GH100 GPU accelerators – was designed perfectly for HPC simulation and modeling workloads. And several major supercomputing labs are putting the Grace CPU through the […]
Adaptive Cards: Platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON
Adaptive Cards are platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON, that apps and services can openly exchange. When delivered to a specific app, the JSON is transformed into native UI that automatically adapts to its surroundings. It helps design and integrate light-weight UI for all major platforms and frameworks. Get Started Watch video
The appendix is not, in fact, useless
Enlarge this image As an evolutionary anatomist, Heather Smith studies the fossil record of extinct species. A sudden appendectomy as a child made her curious about what the appendix is for and why it gets inflamed. Heather Smith Heather Smith It was the first day of spring break in 1992 in Phoenix, and 12-year-old Heather […]
Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’ve mentioned/written a book on/devoted their life to. Listening/reading delays your reaction time, and as with other sports, speed is of […]
A search engine in 80 lines of Python
Home · About · Blog · Recipes · Blogroll A search engine in 80 lines of Python February 05, 2024 · 26 mins · 4718 words Last September I hopped on board with Wallapop as a Search Data Scientist and since then part of my work has been working with Solr, an open source search […]
Neanderthals, modern humans may have co-existed in Europe for at least 10k years
The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike. It is therefore not surprising that this time period – the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition – has been a focus of research for many archaeologists, physical […]