Month: December 2024

AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal f… This website requires JavaScript to function properly. If you disabled JavaScript, please enable it and refresh this page. Reporting content sends an email to all the moderators of this pod. Please only report content that violates Geraspora* terms. Please state how the […]

JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service

Web Interface The web-interface to Horizons is available via the “App” tab above. New users are encouraged to use the tutorial and reference the manual when needed. Providing nearly all capabilities of the primary command-line interface, it does not provide the following. Command-Line Interface The command-line (primary) interface to Horizons can be accessed directly by […]

Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers [video]

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Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers – media.ccc.de Adam Batori and Robert Pafford Saal GLITCH Hardware & Making Playlists: ’38c3′ videos starting here / audio We are aware of audio issues, especially during talks of day 1 (2024-12-27). Some talks have been released in a preview-version, but are still being worked on […]

A simple way to explore data through a Tableau-like UI directly in your data app

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A simple way to explore your data through a Tableau-like interface directly in your Panel data applications. What is Panel Graphic Walker? panel-graphic-walker brings the power of Graphic Walker to your data science workflow, seamlessly integrating interactive data exploration into notebooks and Panel applications. Effortlessly create dynamic visualizations, analyze datasets, and build dashboards—all within a […]

How AI is unlocking ancient texts

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In October 2023, an e-mail pinged onto Federica Nicolardi’s phone with an image that would transform her research forever. It showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been burnt in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ad 79. The scorched scroll was one of hundreds discovered in the remains of a luxury Roman […]

Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

ts_zip: Text Compression using Large Language Models The ts_zip utility can compress (and hopefully decompress) text files using a Large Language Model. The compression ratio is much higher than with other compression tools. There are some caveats of course: A GPU is necessary to get a reasonable speed. 4 GB of RAM is required. It […]

I got promoted to staff engineer twice

At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. In early 2023, GitHub promoted me to staff software engineer. Successfully going through the staff promotion process twice in two years was a pretty interesting experience, and I think it puts […]

The Long, Painful History of Time

Erik Naggum — A Long, Painful History of Time  naggum.no/lugm-time.html 1999-10-11  Erik NaggumNaggum SoftwareOslo, Norway ABSTRACT The programming language Common Lisp offers a few functions to support the concept of time as humans experience it, including GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME, ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME, DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME, and GET-DECODED-TIME. These functions assume the existence of a timezone and a daylight saving time regime, […]

If I Could Wave a Magic Wand

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We often talk about rewriting code and almost as often talk about whether big rewrites are even a good idea. Joel Spolsky writes a particularly harrowing story of how netscape rewrote their entire codebase and in so doing perhaps doomed their chances of recovery. In summary, here are some key things you need to keep […]