Month: August 2024
Civilization 7 launches in February
Image: Firaxis Games You’ll be able to rewrite the course of history in Civilization 7 next year. Firaxis Games showed up during Opening Night Live 2024 with a new trailer and some news — Civilization 7 will launch on just about everything you can play a video game on February 11th, 2025. Civilization 6 released … Read more
Why are Texas interchanges so tall?
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How the Moon Impacts Subsea Communication Cables: GPS Long-Term Stabilized RF Phase Meter
:::info Author: (1) Lothar Moeller, SubCom, Eatontown, NJ 07724, USA, lmoeller@subcom.com. ::: Table of Links Abstract and Introduction GPS Long-Term Stabilized RF Phase Meter Simple and Accurate models for tides Latency Variations on Transpacific Cable Poisson effect on pressurized cables Conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References 2. GPS LONG-TERM STABILIZED RF PHASE METER The key idea behind … Read more
Local Development With Subdomains, Mobile Testing, and OAuth: is it More Cost Effective?
tl;dr For many applications, especially when starting out, localhost has all the functionality needed. As applications get more complex, there are many options including tunneling and remote development environments, but localhost with a local DNS can provide another viable option. Full Length While working on mazaar.io, I needed a way to interact with the app … Read more
Speedrun Your Understanding of Machine Learning.. in 52 seconds 🏎️
first subscribe to my twitter, i tweet tech stuff One more speedrun in the series, let’s goooo I just used reinforcement learning (RL) meme on you: you open the post (do a right thing) you get the meme (a reward) What a bait it was.. omg.. So, why is it hard for meme-Kelvin to learn … Read more
Tutorial: Learn How to Use the h2 Database With Spring Boot! 🤔
In this instructional we’ll review an example application which is written in the Groovy Programming Language (Groovy) and which demonstrates how to use the H2 relational database (H2 DB / H2) with Spring Boot. The benefit from using the Groovy Programming Language, in this case, is that it allows an example to ship exactly one … Read more
Bulleted Notes eBook Summary: A Different Way to Chat with PDF
Last year, I began manually summarizing a collection of books to integrate psychological concepts from various sources. After a week of work, I’d only covered a few chapters of the first book, realizing the task’s time-consuming nature. This prompted my quest to learn LLM. Over the next six months, I immersed myself in the world … Read more
The Modern Educator and the Perceived Silliness of Gamification in Education
Art created by the author Education is a very crucial and serious domain in life, and it comes in vastly different forms and packages too. For most people, education is a river that brings them from childhood to adulthood, while people of academia adopt research, progress and education as their life’s mission. Under this lens, … Read more
Is Now the Right Time to Start Using Azure Data Studio?
The first time I tried Azure Data Studio a few years ago, I was not impressed because it was a simple copy of Visual Studio Code. The built-in features were primitive; besides CRUD operations, there wasn’t much else. As a result, the tool couldn’t compete with the classic SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). However, I changed my mind after … Read more
The Cybersecurity Paradox: Why Free Costs Too Much
Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in from cyberspace. The cybersecurity industry is pulling off a magic trick that would make Houdini proud: simultaneously inflating consultant rates and flooding the market with wide-eyed newbies. A paradox wrapped in an enigma, served with a side of irony. You’d think this would be cause for … Read more
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OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT
OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of storied outlets such as The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired — to surface stories from Condé Nast properties in OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT and its search prototype SearchGPT. The specific terms of the partnership weren’t disclosed. But in … Read more
SwissMicros DM32 Released [video]
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Grayscale’s Share of Bitcoin ETF Market Falls Below 25% as Rivals Rise
Although Grayscale opened the door to the Bitcoin ETF market, investors have moved swiftly to other options.
Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI
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Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging
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Making database systems usable
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German BaFin regulator cracks down on crypto ATMs
According to Coin ATM Radar, there are currently 38,725 crypto ATMs worldwide, with a vast majority located inside the United States.
Borderlands 4 is launching in 2025
Image: Gearbox Software Gearbox is planning to launch Borderlands 4 sometime in 2025, the company announced at the Gamescom Opening Night Live show on Tuesday. The game is set to launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X / S. The reveal trailer was pretty mysterious, and the trailer’s description on YouTube doesn’t offer much … Read more
PayPal could challenge Apple Wallet in the EU
Though PayPal has not yet confirmed it will now develop a competing wallet thanks to new APIs, the company has hinted in that such a plan is in the works. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Pixel Watch 3 is ‘replacement only’ if you break it
Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge If you happen to crack the screen on your brand-new Pixel Watch 3, Google won’t repair it; the new smartwatch is “replacement only,” a Google representative told Android Authority. That means this is the third smartwatch in a row where Google won’t offer repairs. That’s a shame, especially … Read more
FOMO HOUR 183 – WE ARE NOW SHITCOINING ON TRON
Crypto follows stocks higher, BTC rallies to $61k. SOL funds saw largest weekly outflow ever. Tether mints another $1bn on Tron. SEC blocked SOL ETF from CBoE. China classifies crypto for money laundering. DNC platform doesn’t mention crypto. Rumours Gensler may be Treasury Secretary pick. Chrome extension ‘Bull Checker’ leads to exploits. Genesis-linked wallet hacked … Read more
Authors file copyright lawsuit against Anthropic for AI model training
The latest in a series of cases concerning copyright and AI looks at the sources Anthropic used to train its Claude large language models.
Bitcoin demand sharply declined since April — CryptoQuant
The slowdown in Bitcoin demand can be attributed to a sharp decline in purchases in the United States.
Private transactions now dominate Ethereum order flow — report
Private orders consume more than 50% of gas used on Ethereum, according to Blocknative.