No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
AI image gen becomes more intentional Source: No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
An intro to DeepSeek’s distributed file system | Hacker News
Ultimately, I obviously believe that storage and data are really important keys to how these AI companies operate — so it makes sense that DeepSeek would build something like this in-house to get the properties that they’re looking for. My hope is that we, at Archil, can find a better set of defaults that work […]
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This is the FOB cost. In the industry, “free on board” is the shoe’s cost at the point when it’s loaded onto a vessel at the port of origin. “Free” refers to how the factory will pay to deliver a finished product up to the point when it boards a ship—the rest is your problem. […]
Nearly 100 potholes detected in S’pore in first 12 days of 2025, including several in Tanah Merah | The Straits Times
Nearly 100 potholes were detected in the first 12 days of 2025 amid prolonged rainfall across Singapore, though overall annual figures have seen a significant dip in recent years. Source: Nearly 100 potholes detected in S’pore in first 12 days of 2025, including several in Tanah Merah | The Straits Times
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 | Hacker News
We have almost lost the chance now to hear personal testimony of WWII. I’ve met several Battle of Britain pilots too, but the last died in Dublin recently: Source: Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 | Hacker News When the world forgets about the previous world war, the next one might be […]
Text to Speech Models and Providers Leaderboard | Artificial Analysis
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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model \ Anthropic
It turns out that, in Claude, refusal to answer is the default behavior: we find a circuit that is “on” by default and that causes the model to state that it has insufficient information to answer any given question. However, when the model is asked about something it knows well—say, the basketball player Michael Jordan—a […]
The Demoralization is just Beginning | the singularity is nearer
This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience. Source: The Demoralization is just Beginning | the singularity is nearer
“The Lost Art of Logarithms”: Preface
The subject of this book is the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, which are numbers that fell into obscurity with the increasing prevalence of electronic calculators in the 1970s. I hope to demonstrate in this book that logarithms are central to our perceptions and consequent understanding of the world, if only we knew […]
US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s | Hacker News
It’s getting the point where people are actively avoiding USA made goods as a protest. To tell you the truth, it’s not as hard to do as avoiding Chinese made goods so I think America is going to lose out massively. Right now as it stands today, I feel a lot less guilty about buying […]