The Bastard Operator from Hell
The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete The Bastard Operator From HellThe Complete WWW Edition. Warning: This site contains adult themes, violence, profanities, and other such fun stuff.If it bothers you, just don’t read it. The Original Bastard Menu From Hell The electronic rights of the original BOFH are owned by DATAMATION magazine.All other rights are […]
LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This
Abstract:As Large Language Models become more ubiquitous across domains, it becomes important to examine their inherent limitations critically. This work argues that hallucinations in language models are not just occasional errors but an inevitable feature of these systems. We demonstrate that hallucinations stem from the fundamental mathematical and logical structure of LLMs. It is, therefore, […]
iPhone 16’s A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip
We got our first look at a Geekbench result from the iPhone 16 earlier this week, with somewhat disappointing results. There was a decent improvement in single core performance, but the multi-core score was abnormal. However, newer results paint a much more promising picture. A18 Pro results The Geekbench result uploaded today comes from an […]
Degrees of deception: How America’s universities became debt factories
Nesting Arena Allocators in Rust
kinds of allocation nesting allocators passing allocators scoped allocators conclusion I regularly point people to Tmandry’s 2021 post “Contexts and Capabilities in Rust”. While nobody is actively working on the design at the moment, it’s more because of prioritization than anything else. It seems like it could make certain usage patterns a lot nicer in […]
Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space
Iran has successfully launched its Chamran 1 research satellite into space using the domestically developed Qaem 100 satellite carrier. The satellite was placed in a 550 km orbit, weighing approximately 60 kg. Its main mission is to test hardware and software systems related to orbital maneuver technology in height and phase. The Chamran 1 satellite […]
Writing an OS in Rust
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Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker
Sep 12, 2024 (Electronics) Most speakers emit sound in all directions because they are relatively small compared to the wavelength. Audible sounds have wavelengths of up to several meters, so an acoustically “large” speaker might not even fit in your house. Fortunately, strong modulated ultrasound is slowly converted to normal sound as it passes through […]
U.S. Govt pushes Nvidia and Apple to use Intel’s foundries
During a meeting with U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger expressed frustration with America’s reliance on TSMC to produce advanced chips. After this, Raimondo (via CNBC) went on private meetings with some public market investors, including shareholders of tech giants Nvidia and Apple, encouraging them to push their companies to […]