SmolLM2 New from Loubna Ben Allal and her research team at Hugging Face: SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters. They are capable of solving a wide range of tasks while being lightweight enough to run on-device. [.. … | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest edition of Come On Over, Food52 editorial director Julie Vadnal's newsletter that's all about hosting gatherings big and small—without losing your cool. Got company? Sign up here for her emails. I’ll share a secret with you: I prefer Friendsgiving over Thank … | Continue reading
Asciminib (Scemblix) has been approved for adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (Ph+ CML) in chronic phase (CP). The accelerated approval was granted by the FDA on 29 October 2024. Earlier, asciminib was approved by FDA in … | Continue reading
Omega and Swatch's MoonSwatch line of fashion wristwatches may not qualify as haute chronologie or a showcase of the watchmaker's craft, but they have managed to introduce what may well be a unique function in the Mission to EarthPhase watch. Continue Reading Category: Wearables, … | Continue reading
We've been focusing in on some of the powertrain innovations Mahle has been developing and fine-tuning for the electric car and truck market, and the company hasn't been letting its ebike offerings slide, either. This week, it launched its lightest electric bike drive series yet. … | Continue reading
Historians picking thru the wreckage to find out just who played the biggest part in crashing democracy, and ultimately, civilization, will, of course, assign blame to Petro-Dictators like Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.But a chapter will have to be written about … | Continue reading
Though primarily known for cameras and office equipment, Ricoh boasts that its lenses are the preferred choice of top projector makers around the world. So it's no surprise that its latest laser projector makes use of Ricoh glass "to deliver high-quality, color-rich 4K images fro … | Continue reading
Before and after. Financial Times (paywall): The extraordinary downpours were driven in part by higher temperatures in the Mediterranean, a largely enclosed sea whose warmth is a store of energy that can only be released via evaporation, creating the conditions for intense storms … | Continue reading
For the first day of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), I want to start with something difficult, and the reason why I’m participating in this monthly challenge. I’ve lost all affection for my writing voice, and I don’t entirely know why. These days, it’s challenging for me … | Continue reading
Holiday specials and streaming rights; the questionable future of linear cable channels; Bob Iger’s Endgame gets interesting; Sports Corner with Rob Manfred, Jason Kelce, and Charles Barkley; Behold, the power of CBS; and some TV shows you should watch.… | Continue reading
On Wednesday I had a great chat with Connie Loizos, the editor in chief of TechCrunch, you can view the video here: Then yesterday Automattic filed its legal responses to the spurious lawfare from WP Engine, Silver Lake, and Quinn Emanuel. It’s a bit long, but if you have time gi … | Continue reading
Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it originated is still hotly debated among historians and anthropologists. Now a new theory has been put forward: That our evolutionary loss of body hair is at the root of t … | Continue reading
Before you optimize your code, you should run a profiler to understand how your code performs. In Python, you can use cProfile to profile your code. cProfile is part of the Python standard library. With cProfile, you can find out: How long functions take to run in your code, both … | Continue reading
Work is currently underway on an extremely slim new skyscraper in Dubai. Despite its supertall height of 380 m (1,246 ft), the tower will be just one apartment wide – or 22.5 m (73 ft). Continue Reading Category: Architecture, Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction, Skyscraper … | Continue reading
Yee [end turn] haw The post Coldridge Explores The Wild West One Hex At A Time appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Democracy isn’t just a bunch of abstract principles and dusty laws in some book somewhere. It’s the values we live by. It’s the way we treat each other, including those who don’t look like us or pray like us or see the world exactly like we do. President Barack Obama. | Continue reading
This was our second edition in Antwerp. At least for a while it will be our last one in Antwerp either. Well, at least in the wonderful Bourla Theatre as it will be restored for the next couple of years (the estimate is between 3 and 5 years). We are looking into other options fo … | Continue reading
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do a Novel writing month, but I have signed up for writingmonth.org with the idea that I want to write at least 10,000 words in my journal (this blog counts) and another 10,000 words at least for office work. For office work, I’ll only count wor … | Continue reading
"The more you enable these people structurally or systematically, the more footing they gain until they become a default" The post The Dragon Age Review Controversy Shows How Much YouTube And Twitter Have Poisoned Video Game Discourse appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
By Leo Babauta Last year, I turned 50 years old … and I found myself thinking about aging more than I ever had before. To be clear, 50 years old is still pretty young, but there’s something about the number that had me realizing that my 60s and 70s aren’t very far away, and it [… … | Continue reading
Great blow-up sculpture. Blog moderation policy. | Continue reading
Apple on Monday in the Irish press release for this week’s operating system updates: Mac users in the EU can access Apple Intelligence in U.S. English with macOS Sequoia 15.1. This April, Apple Intelligence features will start to roll out to iPhone and iPad users in the EU. This … | Continue reading
A newly characterized anti-viral defense system in bacteria aborts infection through a novel mechanism by chemically altering mRNA. | Continue reading
Pixelmator Team: A new home for Pixelmator Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple. This is huge for this company, and it’s well-deserved. Pixelmator has long-been a prime example of what a great Apple developer looks like, and I’ | Continue reading
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life. Whether you're a seasoned dev or just getting started, it’s all about h … | Continue reading
Aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the terminal will beam data over laser links during the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. | Continue reading
An app will accurately detect if your milk has gone bad using an off-the-shelf smartphone’s built-in vibration motor – and you don’t need to open the carton. According to the researchers behind the tech, it could help prevent sickness and liters of the white stuff being poured do … | Continue reading
A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now been found in a pig in the US for the first time, raising the risk of the virus evolving to become more dangerous to people | Continue reading
No Food. No Water. Many homeless. More than 200 dead with many missing. Many remote areas still isolated. Military deployed.More flood warnings still being issued. Climate change is like fighting a war that never ends. New York Times: Late Thursday and Friday, rains spread to oth … | Continue reading
From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code Google's Project Zero security team used a system based around Gemini 1.5 Pro to find a previously unreported security vulnerability in SQLite (a stack buffer underflow), in time fo … | Continue reading
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Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signatures of bizarre particles that sometimes move like they have no mass, but at other times move just like a very massive particle | Continue reading
Traversing the width of Scotland in a canoe would be a challenge in and of itself, as would traversing it on a recumbent tricycle. Well, British adventurer Ben Kilner recently canoed the trip in one direction then triked it in the other, using the same amphibious vehicle for both … | Continue reading
Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just how substantial their role in the carbon cycle may be | Continue reading
Through the Civil Discourse Project at MIT, scholarly debate serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students. | Continue reading
Through the Civil Discourse Project at MIT, scholarly debate serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students. | Continue reading
At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how you … | Continue reading
Spirit had it right in 1970. So far the message hasn’t quite taken hold. Katharine Hayhoe on LinkedIn: I’ve mentioned before how Coldplay was the first band to set a goal of cutting their tour’s carbon footprint by 50%. According to their latest update, they’ve cut their emission … | Continue reading
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I love watching companies when they’re thinking out loud. Because it gets me thinking too (not necessarily in the same direction). Case in point: two new products from Nintendo. Watch Nintendo’s announcement video for Alarmo (YouTube), their new shiny round red alarm clock with s … | Continue reading
Claude API: PDF support (beta) Claude 3.5 Sonnet now accepts PDFs as attachments: The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022) model now supports PDF input and understands both text and visual content within documents. I just released llm-claude-3 0.7 with support for t … | Continue reading
by Emily Green ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. TAPACHULA, Me … | Continue reading
The Mystery at Underwood House — Clara Benson This is, I’m sorry to say, one of those books that I look back at and can’t remember anything at all about. I see from online sources that it’s the second book … Continue reading → | Continue reading
One of my favorite childhood lunches just got more exciting! READ MORE... | Continue reading
The ScreenCastsONLINE giveaway has ended, and I have a winner to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Christian Arendt You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but ScreenCasts … | Continue reading
In four days, Pennsylvania will become just about the most important place on Earth. It is unlikely that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump can reach the White House without carrying the Keystone State; winning Pennsylvania bumps either’s odds of prevailing in the whole electio … | Continue reading
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short horror story in the form of a series of 1999-era screenshots about a Windows screensaver simulating life on an island # | Continue reading