Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models
Abstract:With the growing demand for deploying large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, improving their inference efficiency is crucial for sustainable and democratized access. However, retraining LLMs to meet new user-specific requirements is prohibitively expensive and environmentally unsustainable. In this work, we propose a practical and scalable alternative: composing efficient hybrid language models from existing […]
OMSCS Open Courseware
Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program is proud to make the course content* for many of its courses publicly available through Ed Lessons. Select a course below to view the public content for that course. Note that students enrolled in OMSCS should access their course content through Canvas, as the […]
Perl’s Decline Was Cultural
According to the Discourse, somebody killed perl There’s been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I […]
Show HN: I made a tool to make PDFs look scanned because bureaucracy
Transform PDF documents to look like scanned documents. Default Scan scanify input.pdf All Effects scanify –aggressive –bent –dusty input.pdf Installation brew tap Francium-Tech/tap brew install scanify From Source git clone https://github.com/Francium-Tech/scanify.git cd scanify swift build -c release cp .build/release/scanify /usr/local/bin/ # Basic usage – creates input_scanned.pdf scanify document.pdf # Specify output path scanify document.pdf scanned_output.pdf […]
Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Modern OSS Security Stack
Infisical is looking to hire exceptional talent to join our teams in building the open source security infrastructure stack for the AI era. We’re building a generational company with a world-class engineering team. This isn’t a place to coast — but if you want to grow fast, take ownership, and solve tough problems, you’ll be […]
HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers
Accessibility barriers in research are not new, but they are urgent. The message we have heard from our community is that arXiv can have the most impact in the shortest time by offering HTML papers alongside the existing PDF. arXiv has successfully launched papers in HTML format. We are gradually backfilling HTML for arXiv’s corpus […]
Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Welcome to The Core Project – Tiny Core Linux The Core Project is a highly modular based system with community build extensions. It starts with a recent Linux kernel, vmlinuz, and our root filesystem and start-up scripts packaged with a basic set of kernel modules in core.gz. Core (11MB) is simply the kernel + core.gz […]
Touching the Elephant – TPUs
Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit Reed December 1, 2025 Something New There is mythological reverence for Google’s Tensor Processing Unit. While the world presently watches NVIDIA’s gravity drag more companies into its orbit, there sits Google, imperial and singular. Lots of companies participate in the “Cambrian-style explosion of new-interesting accelerators”[14] – Groq, Amazon, and Tenstorrent come […]
‘Life being stressful is not an illness’ – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
3 hours ago ShareSave Catherine Burns,Health correspondent, Vicki Loader,Health producerand Harriet Agerholm ShareSave Getty Images Hundreds of GPs across England have told the BBC they think mental health problems are being over-diagnosed. One commonly-held view by family doctors, our research suggests, is that society tends to over-medicalise normal life stresses. But they’re also concerned about […]
Autism’s Confusing Cousins
“I think that these days what we mean by “autism” is basically “weird person disease.”” Sorbie Richner, Rich Girl Rehab “Accurate diagnosis requires consideration of multiple diagnoses. Sometimes, different diagnoses can overlap with one another and can only be differentiated in subtle and nuanced ways, but particular diagnoses vary considerably in levels of public awareness. […]