Please stop the coding challenges
Please, Stop the Absurd Coding Challenges | _blackentropy About Blog 15 Nov, 2024 Let’s talk about tech interviews – specifically, the ones that go overboard with unrealistic coding assignments. If you’re a developer who’s been asked to debug legacy PHP or build a mini-app from scratch in just a few hours, you know what I’m […]
Norwegian Fishermen Hunting for Halibut Caught a US Nuclear Sub
Some Norwegian fishermen off the coast of Tromsø were out and about on their vessel named Øygutt looking for halibut. Something significantly larger than fish, however, found its way into their trawl net. The fishermen caught the USS Virginia, a 115-meter-long nuclear-powered attack submarine outfitted with cruise missiles. The ship’s crew, made up entirely of […]
1-Bit AI Infrastructure
Abstract:Recent advances in 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs), such as BitNet and BitNet b1.58, present a promising approach to enhancing the efficiency of LLMs in terms of speed and energy consumption. These developments also enable local LLM deployment across a broad range of devices. In this work, we introduce this http URL, a tailored software […]
Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language
Language features The design of Zyme’s language balances the capacity for abstraction with evolutionary potential. While abstraction and encapsulation help developers manage complexity by dividing programs into independent components and modules, this can conflict with the goal of being an evolvable language. A primary benefit of modularization — preventing unintended interactions between independent components — […]
The Battle Line at Louvain
Ruins of the Library at Louvain (Photo: Library of Congress) I’ve written before about the book burning ceremonies (“bücherverbrennung”) that the Nazi Party arranged in 1933 following their seizure of power and passing of the Berufsbeamtengesetz (“Law for the Restoration of the Professsional Civil Service”) dismissing public servants from German Universities (see essay below). The […]
Building Observability with ClickHouse
Contents Intro For the past half a year, I’ve been working on building an experimental observability project — among many other tasks and projects — for infrastructure at my current company. After trying out a few different tech stacks, I’ve settled on using ClickHouse for data warehouse and Grafana for visualizations and alerting. This post […]
The bucket brigade device: An analog shift register
Nov 14, 2024 (Electronics) Nowadays, digitally delaying audio is easy, but historically we had to use devices like the TCA350, a fully analog delay line: It works by charging a small capacitor to the input voltage, and then moving that charge through a chain of hundreds more before it exists the device: The two clock […]
It’s hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start
Math Acceleration feeds upon itself Our Kid wants to do more math. We started Math Acceleration pretty early into our kids’s elementary school years. We didn’t have grand goals like “Finish Calculus by grade X,” “get selected for the US’s International Mathematical Olympiad team,” or even “start taking Algebra 1 before high school.” Kids Who […]
Modern Treasury (YC S18) Is Hiring a Product Designer
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NeuralDEM – Real-Time Simulation of Industrial Particulate Flows
Benedikt Alkin †, *, 1, 2, Tobias Kronlachner †, *, 1, 3, Samuele Papa †, 1, 4, 5, Stefan Pirker 3, Thomas Lichtenegger 1, 3, Johannes Brandstetter @, 1, 2 † core contributor, * equal contribution 1 NXAI GmbH, Linz, Austria 2 ELLIS Unit Linz, Institute for Machine Learning, JKU Linz, Austria 3 Department of […]