Deep Learning with Jax

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Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms

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Every time I get in my car and plug my phone in, an interstitial from Rosalía’s 2022 album Motomami starts playing. “A de alfa, altura, alien,” she recites on Abcdefg. “B de bandida, C de coqueta” – I can’t turn it off fast enough. I love Rosalía but the Apple Music app defaults to the […]

Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)

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Taking the League of Legends game server from a nondeterministic process to its current state required almost a full year of effort from multiple engineers. As a side benefit of this effort, we holistically improved the codebase’s robustness, discoverability, and maintainability. We removed swaths of dead or redundant code and created new opportunity spaces for […]

California bans legacy admissions at private universities

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The change will affect Stanford University, the University of Southern California and other private colleges in the state. California will ban private colleges and universities, including some of the nation’s most selective institutions, from giving special consideration to applicants who have family or other connections to the schools, a practice known as legacy admissions. Gov. […]

Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI

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Apple has reportedly exited negotiations to invest in OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple had been in discussions to participate in a funding round for OpenAI that is expected to raise approximately $6.5 billion. However, Apple recently dropped out of the talks for reasons that […]

Engineers investigate another malfunction on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

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Enlarge / The Merlin vacuum engine on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fired for six minutes to place the Crew-9 mission into low-Earth orbit. NASA/SpaceX SpaceX is investigating a problem with the Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage that caused it to reenter the atmosphere and fall into the sea outside of its intended disposal area after a Saturday […]

GnuCash 5.9 Released

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GnuCash 5.0 Released The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.0 New Features A new Stock Transaction Assistant to guide you through entering most investment transactions for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. You can access it from Actions>Stock Assistant when the focus tab is the Accounts page or a Stock or Fund account register. A new […]

The Rat Studies That Foretold a Nightmarish Human Future

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Books The Rat Studies that Foretold a Nightmarish Human Future At first, scientists just wanted to figure out the best way to kill these pests. Then they decided that studying rat society could reveal the future of our own. By Elizabeth Kolbert September 30, 2024 As the world population approached four billion in the nineteen-sixties, […]