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Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

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MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.05091: MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter Large Language Models on a Single GPU

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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

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Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

Live status of the Strait of Hormuz

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Git commands I run before reading any code

Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

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Expanding Swift's IDE Support

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They're made out of meat (1991)

Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not reprint, perform, alter or adapt in any way without first checking with the author. Thanks.

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LittleSnitch for Linux

Discover powerful applications such as Little Snitch Mini, Little Snitch, LaunchBar and Micro Snitch.

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ML promises to be profoundly weird

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I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii

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Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

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Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

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John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.

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I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit

Portfolio of Oliver Seifert, a Software Engineer & Electronics Technician from Bern, Switzerland.,I imported the entire Linux kernel git history into pgit's PostgreSQL-backed storage. 1,428,882 commits, 24.4 million file versions, 20 years of development. Here's what the kernel looks like when you can just ask.

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The Importance of Being Idle

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Understanding Traceroute

I never understood how traceroute discovers each hop. Turns out it's a clever TTL trick, and about 80 lines of Rust.

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USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

A basic introduction to USB for people that don't need to know what happens on the wire

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Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets

Customers make hundreds of thousands of dollars as records show substantial bets made before announcement

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What does it mean to “write like you talk”?

Subordinate clauses, phrasal modifications, and metadiscourse

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