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Nvidia CEO Casts Doubt on Imminent Quantum Computing Breakthrough, Sending Stocks Plunging

2025-01-08
Nvidia CEO Casts Doubt on Imminent Quantum Computing Breakthrough, Sending Stocks Plunging

Shares of IonQ and other quantum computing companies plummeted on Wednesday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that truly 'useful' quantum computers are likely still two decades away. This announcement dampened recent excitement surrounding the field, following a significant breakthrough by Alphabet last month. Stocks like Quantum Computing Inc., D-Wave, and Rigetti saw drops exceeding 30%, highlighting the market's sensitivity to the timeline of quantum computing's practical applications.

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Optimizing the Separating Axis Theorem with Gauss Map Traversal

2025-07-10
Optimizing the Separating Axis Theorem with Gauss Map Traversal

This article presents an optimized collision detection algorithm for convex polyhedra. Reframing the Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) as a sphere-based optimization problem, the author reveals that the minimum lies at the intersections of great circles on a Gauss map. A graph traversal algorithm avoids repeated support function calculations, requiring only one full evaluation initially. The algorithm then efficiently updates the support point by traversing the Gauss map, resulting in significant performance gains. Tests show a 5-10x speedup over traditional SAT.

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TorchFT: Fault-Tolerant LLM Training Under Extreme Failure Rates

2025-06-27

Researchers used TorchFT and TorchTitan to train a model in a real-world environment with extreme synthetic failure rates to prove the reliability and correctness of fault-tolerant training. Even with 1200 failures and no checkpoints, training loss remained stable. TorchFT uses a global Lighthouse server and per-replica group Managers for real-time coordination and implements various fault-tolerant algorithms such as Fault-Tolerant HSDP and LocalSGD/DiLoCo. Experimental results demonstrate that even under extremely high failure rates, TorchFT effectively trains the model, showcasing its robustness in handling various failure scenarios.

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Philosophy Eats AI: How Philosophical Frameworks Shape AI's Future

2025-01-19
Philosophy Eats AI: How Philosophical Frameworks Shape AI's Future

Research from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that the success of AI hinges not just on technology, but also on the underlying philosophical frameworks guiding its development. The article argues that philosophy pervades AI, from training data to deployment, influencing reasoning, prediction, and innovation. Leaders must proactively leverage philosophical thinking, rather than relying on implicit principles, to unlock AI's full value and gain a competitive edge. Neglecting this philosophical dimension will lead to suboptimal returns on AI investments.

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Quantifying Accent Strength with AI: BoldVoice's Latent Space Approach

2025-05-06

BoldVoice, an AI-powered accent coaching app, uses 'accent fingerprints'—embeddings generated from a large-scale accented speech model—to quantify accent strength in non-native English speakers. By visualizing 1000 recordings in a latent space using PLS regression and UMAP, BoldVoice creates a model that visually represents accent strength. This model objectively measures accent strength, independent of native language, and tracks learning progress. A case study shows how this helps learners improve, with potential applications in ASR and TTS systems.

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Enhanced Spin-Orbit Torque via Orbital Hall Effect for High-Density SOT-MRAM

2025-03-01
Enhanced Spin-Orbit Torque via Orbital Hall Effect for High-Density SOT-MRAM

Researchers significantly improved Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) device performance by leveraging the enhanced orbital Hall effect (OHE) of Ru, Nb, and Cr layers in combination with a perpendicularly magnetized [Co/Ni]3 ferromagnetic layer. Experiments showed a ~30% increase in damping-like torque efficiency with a positive sign for the Ru/Pt OHE layer compared to pure Pt. This resulted in a ~20% reduction in switching current across >250 devices and a >60% reduction in switching power. This work paves the way for next-generation SOT-MRAM devices with enhanced performance for high-density cache memory applications.

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Elm's Governance Crisis: A Contributor's Account

2025-02-16

A long-time Elm contributor details their reasons for leaving the community, citing the Elm core team's leadership style and restrictive native module policies. The author describes autocratic decision-making, lack of transparency and fairness, and suppression of community contributions. They argue that the core team's actions violate the spirit of open source and unfairly impact community members, especially non-native English speakers and minority groups. The post raises concerns about governance and fairness in open-source projects.

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AI Cracks 3000-Year-Old Cuneiform, Revolutionizing Ancient Studies

2025-03-08
AI Cracks 3000-Year-Old Cuneiform, Revolutionizing Ancient Studies

Researchers from Cornell and Tel Aviv Universities have developed ProtoSnap, an AI system that automatically identifies and copies cuneiform characters from 3000-year-old tablets. Using a diffusion model, ProtoSnap compares pixel similarity between an image of a character and a prototype, accurately recreating characters despite variations in writing styles and age. This drastically accelerates cuneiform translation and research, providing massive datasets for studying ancient societies and offering new insights into their religion, economy, social structures, and legal systems.

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Making Everything Testable: Mitchell's GPU Testing Challenge

2025-07-06
Making Everything Testable: Mitchell's GPU Testing Challenge

HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell faced a significant challenge while developing his latest project, Ghostty, a GPU-rendered terminal emulator: testing the GPU rendering code. This article summarizes his BugBash presentation, exploring how to make seemingly untestable code testable. It highlights the lack of widely accepted solutions for GPU testing in the age of AI, making Mitchell's approach particularly valuable. His solution and the work at Antithesis demonstrate a commitment to pushing the boundaries of software testing.

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arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-02-06
arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations working with arXivLabs embrace our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea for a project that will benefit the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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Turing Machines: The Foundation of Computation

2024-12-21
Turing Machines: The Foundation of Computation

This article provides a clear and accessible explanation of Turing machines—a theoretical model of computation. Starting with the operational principles of a Turing machine, it details its components (tape, head, program, and state) and illustrates programming techniques and capabilities through several examples, including printing characters, loops, and basic arithmetic. The article also explores computability and the halting problem, explains the concept of Turing completeness, and clarifies the connection between Turing machines and modern computers. Finally, the author provides an online editor for readers to write and run their own Turing machine programs, enhancing their understanding.

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US Air Traffic Control System on the Brink: A Decades-Long Staffing Crisis

2025-02-04
US Air Traffic Control System on the Brink: A Decades-Long Staffing Crisis

The US air traffic control system is facing a decades-long staffing shortage, leading to flight delays and safety concerns. Despite increased hiring efforts, high-stress levels and a high attrition rate make filling vacancies extremely difficult. Many air traffic controllers work six 10-hour days a week, leading to burnout. This issue not only impacts controllers' well-being but also threatens flight safety, sparking discussions surrounding a recent fatal air crash. While former President Trump blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, experts point to poor working conditions and a disregard for controllers' mental health as the root causes.

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Ryanair Goes 100% Paperless Boarding Passes

2025-03-06
Ryanair Goes 100% Paperless Boarding Passes

Budget airline Ryanair announced it will go fully paperless for boarding passes starting November 2025. Passengers will no longer need to print physical boarding passes; instead, they'll use digital passes from the 'myRyanair' app. This move is expected to eliminate nearly all airport check-in fees, save over 300 tons of paper waste annually, and reduce passengers' carbon footprint. Already, nearly 80% of Ryanair's passengers use digital boarding passes. The airline aims to enhance the passenger experience with real-time flight information and disruption updates directly through the app.

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Website Data Collection and User Privacy Notice

2025-05-21
Website Data Collection and User Privacy Notice

This website uses technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information to provide the best user experience. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions. Technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. The technical storage or access is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

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EmbedPDF: A Slick, Open-Source JavaScript PDF Viewer

2025-08-15
EmbedPDF: A Slick, Open-Source JavaScript PDF Viewer

EmbedPDF is a framework-agnostic, MIT-licensed, open-source JavaScript PDF viewer easily integrated into any JavaScript project (React, Vue, Svelte, Preact, or vanilla JS). It boasts a smooth, modern reading experience with a clean developer API. Features include annotations (highlighting, sticky notes, free text, ink), true redaction, search, text selection, zoom, rotation, and smooth, virtualized scrolling. It's built with a pluggable architecture and tree-shakable plugins. Contributions are welcome!

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Slack's Automated Accessibility Testing: Challenges and Triumphs

2025-01-08
Slack's Automated Accessibility Testing: Challenges and Triumphs

The Slack engineering team details their journey implementing automated accessibility testing. Initial attempts to integrate Axe into their React Testing Library and Jest framework failed due to complexities. They pivoted to Playwright, using custom functions and strategies to successfully automate accessibility checks and integrate them into CI/CD. While not fully hiding automated checks, they minimized developer overhead by simplifying workflows, improving reporting, and establishing clear processes. Future plans include further optimization and exploring AI-assisted testing.

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(slack.engineering)
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Pipelining Gotchas: Lessons from SMTP

2025-06-20

This article explores the pitfalls of pipelining in network protocols. In text-based protocols like SMTP, clients might send multiple requests without waiting for responses. However, improper server-side implementation can lead to issues. A server might rely on an implicit state machine, causing confusion when handling multiple concurrent requests, leading to incorrectly accepting or rejecting emails. The article analyzes the root cause of this potential problem and references RFC 2920's discussion of pipelining deadlocks, reminding developers to carefully handle pipelining to avoid errors due to improper state management or buffering issues.

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AI Creativity: Polished Weirdness or Genuine Breakthrough?

2025-02-18
AI Creativity: Polished Weirdness or Genuine Breakthrough?

This essay explores the use of AI tools in creative work and the potential problems with the style of their output. The author argues that AI-generated art often prioritizes refinement and safety, lacking truly surprising originality, resembling "attractive people with heavily vetted idiosyncrasies" rather than genuine "freaks." Using Goth subculture as an example, the author points out that consistent interaction and feedback within smaller groups are more conducive to the development of individual styles, while large-scale scrutiny leads to convergence. While AI tools lower the barrier to entry for creation, the author also expresses concern about the over-reliance on "parallel interrogation" mechanisms in AI creation, potentially limiting creativity. The author ultimately expresses optimism, believing that as people deepen their use and exploration of AI tools, a balance will be found, achieving harmony between technology and art.

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(danco.substack.com)
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Bybit Suffers $1.46B in Suspicious Outflows: Largest Crypto Hack Ever?

2025-02-21
Bybit Suffers $1.46B in Suspicious Outflows: Largest Crypto Hack Ever?

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has reported $1.46 billion in suspicious outflows, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT. A wallet transferred 401,346 ETH ($1.1 billion) and various staked ETH (stETH) to a new wallet, which is now liquidating assets on decentralized exchanges, according to Etherscan. Around $200 million worth of stETH has already been sold. Bybit CEO Ben Zhou confirmed the hack on X, stating that a hacker gained control of a specific ETH cold wallet. He assured users that other wallets are secure and withdrawals are normal, emphasizing Bybit's solvency even if the loss isn't recovered. This potential hack dwarfs previous major events like the Mt. Gox ($470M), CoinCheck ($530M), and Ronin Bridge ($650M) hacks, making it potentially the largest crypto hack in dollar terms. BTC and ETH prices dropped following the news.

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69 and Still Washing Dishes: A Glimpse into America's Aging Workforce

2025-03-19
69 and Still Washing Dishes: A Glimpse into America's Aging Workforce

Sixty-nine-year-old Walter Carpenter washes dishes at Mad River Glen, a Vermont ski resort, despite suffering from peripheral neuropathy and needing knee and hip replacements. Lacking sufficient retirement savings, he's forced to continue working. His situation highlights a growing problem in America: millions of older adults are unable to retire, working to make ends meet due to inflation, changes in pension systems, and a prevalence of low-wage jobs. The article explores contributing factors and potential solutions, such as auto-IRAs. Carpenter's story represents a broader struggle, raising concerns about ensuring older Americans' financial security and preventing economic hardship in an aging population.

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(time.com)
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The AI Job Apocalypse is Here (and it's not what you think)

2025-05-11
The AI Job Apocalypse is Here (and it's not what you think)

Duolingo's recent layoffs, framed as an "AI-first" strategy, expose a hidden truth: AI-driven job displacement is already widespread. Hundreds of writers and translators have been replaced by AI, a trend echoed across creative industries, journalism, and even government. This isn't a robot uprising, but a calculated move by corporations using AI to cut costs and consolidate power. The resulting job crisis is particularly acute for recent college graduates, with unemployment rates reaching historic highs. While the full economic impact remains unclear, the crisis reveals a deeper issue: the erosion of valuable jobs and the potential for AI to exacerbate existing inequalities. We're facing a critical juncture, needing to define what kind of work we value and how to protect it before the AI-driven job apocalypse consumes us.

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(www.bloodinthemachine.com)
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Canada Joins the EU? A Surprising Proposal

2025-01-03
Canada Joins the EU? A Surprising Proposal

The Economist proposes a bold idea: Canada should join the European Union. The article uses the forty-year "Whisky War" between Canada and Denmark as a springboard, cleverly contrasting their peaceful approach to resolving a territorial dispute. It argues that Canada and the EU offer mutual benefits; the EU needs Canada's vast land and resources, while Canada needs the EU's labor market and economic dynamism. This article is not just political analysis but a thought-provoking case study in international relations, sparking discussion about new models of future international cooperation.

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From Self-Doubt to Software Developer: A Makers Pre-Course Week Four Diary

2025-08-08

This week's blog post details a student's journey through week four of the Makers pre-course. The author grapples with self-doubt while crafting her CV, then progressively masters Test-Driven Development (TDD) and tackles a solo coding project, showcasing her growth and challenges in learning software development. She openly shares her past experiences, including illness recovery and career changes, ultimately solidifying her commitment to becoming a software engineer. The post also highlights her passion for programming and her use of a Go-based text adventure game to reinforce her learning.

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LibreOffice Downloads Surpass 400 Million: A Desktop Office Suite's Comeback Story

2025-01-30
LibreOffice Downloads Surpass 400 Million: A Desktop Office Suite's Comeback Story

The LibreOffice download histogram tells a compelling story. From 2011 to 2014, despite fierce competition, downloads rapidly reached 30 million. A period of stagnation followed as desktop office suites seemed destined for obsolescence. However, a resurgence occurred as users recognized the enduring value of desktop suites alongside cloud options. In 2019, attacks on the download counter caused a temporary spike, but the growth continued. By 2024, LibreOffice surpassed 35 million downloads, accumulating over 400 million since 2011. This success is a testament to the developers, contributors, and users who have supported the project.

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Mastercard's Five-Year-Old DNS Error

2025-01-22

A security researcher, Philippe Caturegli, uncovered a nearly five-year-old error in Mastercard's domain name server settings. This misconfiguration could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. Caturegli spent $300 to register the domain 'akam.ne' to prevent its exploitation by cybercriminals. Mastercard acknowledged the mistake but claimed no real security risk existed. The incident highlights the potential for significant vulnerabilities in even large organizations' DNS configurations.

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Bild AI: Founding Engineer (Applied AI) - Revolutionizing Construction with AI

2025-08-23
Bild AI: Founding Engineer (Applied AI) - Revolutionizing Construction with AI

Bild AI, a fast-growing startup, is searching for a Founding Engineer in Applied AI. They're tackling the complex problem of blueprint understanding in construction using cutting-edge computer vision and LLMs. The ideal candidate will have strong Python, machine learning, and deep learning skills, with a proven track record of building and deploying AI solutions from scratch. This is a high-impact role requiring a growth mindset and the ability to iterate quickly based on user feedback. Experience building products used by paying customers is a plus.

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(www.workatastartup.com)
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Linux Secure Boot Faces Key Expiration Crisis

2025-07-18

A Microsoft key used for signing the Linux Secure Boot shim bootloader is set to expire in September, potentially breaking booting on numerous systems. While a replacement key has been available since 2023, many systems lack the update, possibly requiring firmware updates from hardware vendors. This adds extra work for Linux distributions and users. Solutions involve firmware updates via LVFS and fwupd, but older firmwares might have compatibility issues, potentially requiring Secure Boot to be disabled. Vendor updates may also present problems, such as lost platform keys. Ultimately, this highlights the challenges Linux faces relying on a Windows-centric hardware ecosystem.

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(lwn.net)
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agents.json: Simplifying AI Agent Interaction with APIs

2025-03-03
agents.json: Simplifying AI Agent Interaction with APIs

Wildcard AI introduces the agents.json specification, designed to streamline AI agent interaction with APIs. Building upon the OpenAPI standard, it addresses the challenge of AI agents executing multi-step API call sequences by adding features like flows and links. The agents.json file describes API endpoints and their interactions, enabling reliable execution of API calls by AI agents. The Wildcard Bridge Python package provides functionality to load, parse, and run agents.json files, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate AI agents with APIs simply by adding an agents.json file.

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(github.com)
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s&box: A Powerful Sandbox Game Development Toolkit

2025-01-28

s&box is a sandbox game development tool built on the Source 2 engine, offering players and developers a highly flexible creative environment. You can use it to create various game types, from simple first-person shooters to complex strategy games, and even build your own game modes and maps. s&box boasts a powerful toolset, including an easy-to-use scripting language, a rich asset library, and an intuitive interface, making it accessible even to users without programming experience. It lowers the barrier to entry for game development, enabling more people to participate in game creation.

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(sbox.game)
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