News #80

• Trumpet is an operating system for simple and robust cell-free biocomputing | Nature Communications
• Google Groups ending support for Usenet – Google Groups Help
• Chimera Linux
• GitHub – wesql/wescale: WeScale is a database proxy that cares about your application, the development experience, and supports OnlineDDL.
• Research shows immune cells shape lung tissue before birth, provides new avenues for treating respiratory diseases
• Imagen 2 on Vertex AI is now generally available | Google Cloud Blog
• The Cheap Web
• 2023’s best book covers are the ones you’ll never see
• Structure of FTS5 Index in SQLite
• FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models – Google DeepMind
• Announcing Our Latest Open Source AI Grants | Andreessen Horowitz
• [2312.06937] Can a Transformer Represent a Kalman Filter?
• My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter :: ./techtipsy — Ramblings of a tech enthusiast.
• NowDo – Beat Procrastination
• [1904.09828] Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
• Cortex A57, Nintendo Switch’s CPU – Chips and Cheese
• Motorola’s Pioneering 8-bit 6800 : Origins and Architecture
• small offline large language model — TinyChatEngine from MIT’s Han lab | do not look into laser with remaining eye
• GitHub – AlexandreSajus/JARVIS: Your own personal voice assistant: Voice to Text to LLM to Speech, displayed in a web interface
• Exploring the section layout in linker output | MaskRay
• Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade | Quanta Magazine
• Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | Ubuntu
• The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record? | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core
• So you want custom allocator support in your C library
• Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler [LWN.net]
• An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform – BetterExplained
• GitHub – cognitom/OpenCola: Coca-Cola
• Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle | Duke University School of Law
• Kitemaker blog – More product, fewer PMs
• GitHub – ncruces/go-sqlite-bench: Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers
• Flipboard Begins to Federate. *This post was originally published by… | by Flipboard | Dec, 2023 | Medium
• Monty Anderson
• GitHub – microsoft/LLMLingua: To speed up LLMs’ inference and enhance LLM’s perceive of key information, compress the prompt and KV-Cache, which achieves up to 20x compression with minimal performance loss.
• Hitchhiker’s Guide To Moving From Relational Data To Events – Event-Driven.io
• Quantum batteries break causality | The University of Tokyo
• ncube
• Dungeons and Directories
• 23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
• Quicktake for Apple II – colin@colino.net
• Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis
• First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot | Paul’s Down-Home Page
• Answer.AI – A new old kind of R&D lab
• Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking
• Paying Netflix $0.53/h, etc.
• FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its “Most Complex Refactoring” In Decades – Phoronix
• How to Run Mistral-7B on an M1 Mac With Ollama | ml-news – Weights & Biases
• Causal Trees
• FOSDEM 2024 – Schedule
• Intel CEO attacks Nvidia on AI: ‘The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market’ | Tom’s Hardware
• Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
• The Illustrated GPT-2 (Visualizing Transformer Language Models) – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.
• Schedule Chicken
• Games in the GPU shaders. This is not a tutorial, I write only… | by Danil | Medium
• Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces — LessWrong
• Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on Lord of the Rings fanfiction author | JRR Tolkien | The Guardian
• Advent of Technical Writing: Placeholders | James’ Coffee Blog
• Augmenting Long-term Memory
• That grumpy BSD guy: ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person
• Australia makes world-first decision to ban engineered stone following surge in silicosis cases – ABC News
• Paged Out!
• Chili Oil Notes Part 2 –
• Blog – The day I started believing in Unit Tests
• GitHub – cboxdoerfer/fsearch: A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
• Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors – IEEE Spectrum
• Ventoy
• Fractional Fourier transform – Wikipedia
• 25 hours of Xcode Cloud now included with the Apple Developer Program – Latest News – Apple Developer
• Cog | Ned Batchelder
• (1) [RFC] Add XeGPU dialect for Intel GPUs – MLIR – LLVM Discussion Forums
• Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT – Evan Morikawa at LeadDev West Coast 2023 – YouTube
• Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies
• gokrazy :: gokrazy
• Tools for Learning LLVM TableGen – The LLVM Project Blog
• A Forth vocabulary for iteration — blog dot information dash superhighway dot net
• NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech | Ars Technica
• Apple halting Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales: Here’s why – 9to5Mac
• Multiple microprocessors as a single CPU (not multiprocessing) | Vintage Computer Federation Forums
• Spiderdash
• How 3 Turing Awardees Republished Key Methods and Ideas Whose Creators They Failed to Credit
• New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android
• GitHub – S-LoRA/S-LoRA: S-LoRA: Serving Thousands of Concurrent LoRA Adapters
• Home | endoflife.date
• xLights – Light sequencer and Show scheduler
• What’s Going On With Language Rankings? – Alt + E S V
• Troubleshooting an Intermittent Failure in CI Tests on ARM64 | Kong Inc.
• Tracking Java Native Memory With JDK Flight Recorder – Gunnar Morling
• Tech Leaders Are Obsessing Over the Obscure Theory E/acc. Here’s Why
• Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook | TokyoDev
• Vectors From Leibniz to Einstein |
• Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle – shmuplations.com
• GitHub – bbsimonbb/octopus-turbo: Turbo repo with octopus-state-graph and samples
• How I make OKRs more playful for my team with Hill-Charts
• My “getting paid for the work” story – Dan Moore!
• GitHub – xetdata/xetcache
• Google Online Security Blog: Hardening cellular basebands in Android
• GitHub – facundoolano/feedi: A personal news aggregator and Mastodon client
• graphics – Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case? – Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
• Base32 Encoding Explained | ptrchm
• A new, modern, and secure print experience from Windows – Microsoft Community Hub
• Laurence Tratt: Debugging A Failing Hotkey
• Fedora Asahi Remix – Asahi Linux
• Visualizing fighting game mechanics
• Providing HTML Content Using Htmx — PostgREST 12.0.0 documentation
• GitHub – ofek/pyapp: Build self-bootstrapped Python applications
• Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained

Happy Holidays!