BREAKING NEWS: This is an announcement that has been decades in the making.   On December 5, 2022 a team from DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made history by achieving fusion ignition.   This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and America’s national defense forever.

Martin “Marv” Adams, NNSA’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs and former Texas A&M professor explains the #fusion breakthrough in less than 2 minutes m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-5bNF…

My winter-break project was an arbitrary precision floating-point library. It can be used to emulate fp ops in software with high precision or specific sizes, such as FP128 or FP16. crates.io/crates/arpfloat

What an incredibly employee-hostile move.

When I left Microsoft I remember the check I got for all my unpaid leave because there was real $ attached to those days. Now I would get nothing if this happened and would personally take even less days off because of the psychological effect.

Dr. Dan Lomas

How far up the ivory tower to write an article like this?

What are large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT actually doing to generate text that sounds like a human? This is a really clear explanation from Stephen Wolfram:

Just in: Amazon announced RTO starting on 1 May. Talking with engineers, I sense both surprise and confusion. Confusion on how this week’s all hands did not broach the topic. Amazon was the one of the longest holdouts on letting ppl work remote, w/o defining any policy so far.

Award-winning non-paywalled article from the Onion on the state of journalism. Give it a read, it doesn’t pull any punches: theonion.com/it-is-journali…

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I would say C++ except many people would be very angry. Also the barrier of entry isn’t worth it to change some parameters around. Many of the optimizations here have to work around the Python language to be performant.

Aww they added guard rails

British fantasy: If I get this magic stone, I can do anything Chinese fantasy: If I train really hard, I can do anything Japanese fantasy: If I get really angry, I can do anything American fantasy: I can do anything East European fantasy: I can't do anything

Cashed the #MTGArena open!

Here's our analysis of the 15 million websites in just one highly-filtered CommonCrawl web scrape-used to train models like Google's T5 & Facebook's LLaMA -copyright symbol appears >200M times -pirated sites, 1 for e-books -half the top 10 = news sites washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

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Awesome walk through of esoteric C++ exception implementation. Love that he’s also tracing through the runtime code I wrote 😀

The reason why I'm so bothered by this stuff is because it's a pernicious idea. Too many people read a person's more important inner qualities—intelligence, capability, morality, character, and, in this case, dignity—based on their attire. Often, they assume that someone who

so, enough time has passed now for me to talk about why i decided to leave Blizzard. a mixed year with great teammates, but a management that mistreated, lied to me, gaslit me, gave me a fake promotion, and HR that refused to help. buckle up friendos. 💪