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Gone 10 years, World’s Biggest Bookstore still grips readers
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Toronto Star
‘Going to the World’s Biggest Bookstore was an event.’ 10 years after closing, it still has a grip on former readers
Having everything available at your browsing fingertips felt like a brick-and-mortar Amazon in Toronto, but with smiling staff whose knowledge elevated the experience.
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Kino: Pro Video Camera
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Lux — iPhone camera apps, camera reviews and more
Introducing Kino - Pro Video for iPhone
Today we're excited to launch Kino, a powerful filmmaking app for beginners and experts alike. As say they say in screenwriting, "Show, Don't tell," so let's walk through a few of the tent-pole features in our huge 1.0 release.
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Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
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dashbit.co
Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Apache Arrow, structured LLM, and more - Dashbit Blog
An update on the latest advancements of Elixir, data, and Machine Learning.
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Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
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foojay
Indexing all of Wikipedia, on a laptop
foojay is the place for all OpenJDK Update Release Information. Learn More.
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Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces
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Neil Madden
Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces
It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain conditions. It’s still not a good idea, but you can just about do it. #cryptography
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A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe
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Speedup of deletes on PostgreSQL
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Ian's notes
Achieving a 100x speedup of DELETEs on PostgreSQL
"How did it get late so soon?"
Photo by Murray Campbell on Unsplash
Performance
I recently had a query from a colleague regarding a slow DELETE query on PostgreSQL. On the face of it, it was simple enough. It had no CASCADE, and they were only deleting…
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The rise of the disposable car
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Bloomberg.com
The Rise of the Disposable Car
Salvage auction firms like Copart are benefiting from more vehicles being totaled, but auto owners risk a less pleasant outcome.
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Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control
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Patrick Breyer
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]
Based on a new proposal by the Belgian Minister of the Interior, EU governments could endorse the much-criticised child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR or chat control) as early as June after all. This is what internal information leaked to Pirate Party MEP…
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Meta shuts down Israeli network pushing AI-generated propaganda in U.S.
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Meta shuts down Israeli network pushing AI-generated propaganda in U.S. and Canada
The Israeli network included 510 Facebook accounts, 11 pages, one group, and 32 Instagram accounts. Meta also said that it took down an Iranian network that was targeting users in Israel
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Why OpenAI CEO was ousted
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CNBC
Former OpenAI board member explains why CEO Sam Altman got fired before he was rehired
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner said board members learned about ChatGPT from Twitter and didn't know CEO Sam Altman owned the OpenAI startup fund.
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Nvidia is about to pass Apple in market cap
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Reuters
AI darling Nvidia's market value surges closer to Apple
Nvidia's shares rallied around 6% to hit a record high on Tuesday, leaving the AI chipmaker's stock market value about $100 billion away from overtaking Apple in a major reshuffle of Wall street's biggest players.
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Show HN: Serverless Postgres
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GitHub
GitHub - kiwicopple/serverless-postgres
Contribute to kiwicopple/serverless-postgres development by creating an account on GitHub.
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DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
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New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
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arXiv.org
Cost-Effective Attention Mechanisms for Low Resource Settings:...
From natural language processing to vision, Scaled Dot Product Attention (SDPA) is the backbone of most modern deep learning applications. Unfortunately, its memory and computational requirements...
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Transferability of Microbiome on Clothes as a Tool for Forensic Investigations
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phys.org
You leave a 'microbe fingerprint' on every piece of clothing you wear—and it could help forensic scientists solve crimes
When you think of a criminal investigation, you might picture detectives meticulously collecting and analyzing evidence found at the scene: weapons, biological fluids, footprints and fingerprints. However, ...
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Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
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Phoronix
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution
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Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion Using Efficient Row-Wise Attention
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penghtyx.github.io
Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion using Efficient Row-wise Attention
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Making a living by writing is as rare as being a billionaire
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Theintrinsicperspective
Making a living as a book author is as rare as being a billionaire
Cultural billionaires vs. actual billionaires
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Google releases smart watch for kids
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Google Store
Fitbit Ace LTE
Fitbit Ace LTE offers the benefits of a smartphone without the smartphone. Call, chat, and locate with Ace Pass and keep kids focused with School Time.
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