A Guide to Cutting Through AI Hype by jruohonen

Last Thursday’s Princeton Public Lecture on AI hype began with brief talks based on our respective books: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference. Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor. Princeton University Press, 2024. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. Melanie Mitchell. Farrar, Straus and

ByHackTechApril 27, 20250Comments

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Cutting Down Rust Compile Times from 30 to 2 Minutes with One Thousand Crates by gz09

Rust is fast at runtime — but not so much at compile time. That’s hardly news to anyone who’s worked on a serious Rust codebase. There’s a whole genre of blog posts dedicated to shaving seconds off cargo build. At Feldera, we let users write SQL to define tables and views. Under the hood, we

ByHackTechApril 16, 20250Comments

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Plasma arc cutting: Scientists decode gas flow dynamics by PaulHoule

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Gutting NIH: Cutting senior scientists, summer internships cancelled by pmags

Gutting NIH: Cutting senior scientists, summer internships cancelled

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Ukrainians Are Cutting Open U.S. Cluster Shells to Make Drone Munitions by clouddrover

Ukrainians are now breaking down some of the U.S.-made cluster munition artillery shells they’ve recently received to repurpose the submunition bomblets they carry as improvised weapons to be air-dropped from small drones.Ukraine had been trying to acquire and repurpose air-dropped U.S. cluster munitions to bolster and increase the effectiveness of their stocks of small munitions

ByHackTechAugust 25, 20230Comments

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Laser cutting Doom WAD maps by fmeyer

I’ve heard a lot about classic Doom’s data format and decided to write some Rust code to extract its maps and convert that to vector graphics I could laser cut. I’ll go through the process, from the data extraction to the geometry reconstruction to outputting laser-cuttable SVGs, including the geometrical dead end I enthusiastically ran

ByHackTechApril 15, 20230Comments

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We can now 3D print as much wood as we want without cutting a single tree by rmason

By changing the concentration of these hormones, the researchers could control the stiffness, strength, density, and various other physical and mechanical properties of the lab-grown plant matter. While highlighting the significance of their research work, the authors wrote in their paper, “(Our) recent work proposed a novel approach to generate 3D-printed, tunable plant materials from cell…

ByHackTechDecember 21, 20220Comments

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Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned (2020) by ddtaylor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing Co BA.N said on Wednesday it was eliminating more than 12,000 U.S. jobs, including 6,770 involuntary layoffs, as the largest American planemaker restructures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.Boeing also disclosed it plans “several thousand remaining layoffs” in coming months but did not say where those would take place.Boeing is…

ByHackTechMay 28, 20220Comments

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