Things Microsoft has ever made by Tomte

This week, on April 4th, Microsoft turns 50 years old. The company has gone through sweeping changes over that time — from two guys in New Mexico to more than a quarter-million employees worldwide, from making text-based operating systems to holographic video games — but through the decades, it’s remained a foundation of the tech

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Some things just make more sense when they’re said with a cool accent by keepamovin

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Five important things about DeepSeek by mirawelner

The author, yesterday on BBC, in rare agreement with the President DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply It doesn’t solve hallucinations or problems with reliability. It is still expensive to operate (“inference”), especially if you want to make it “think” longer like o3. The biggest threat isn’t to Nvidia

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Tech Things: Inference Time Compute, Deepseek R1, and the Arrival of the Chinese by theahura

When I was in highschool, I took the American Math Competition 12 exam, commonly known as AMC 12. The exam has 25 questions, multiple choice. The questions are challenging, but not impossible. Given enough time, I suspect most of the seniors at my fancy prep school would be able to do quite well on it.

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How These Things Work (2016) by turtleyacht

Table of Contents Part 1 – Diagrams Preface Machine Diagrams Universal Machines Interlude Numbers Arithmetic Abstraction Multiplexing Latches Constructions on Annotations Memory Cells Part 2 – Symbolic Computations A New Foundation Symbolic Computation Symbolic Evaluation and Equational Reasoning More Types Polymorphism Back in Business and Better than Ever The Infectiousness of Reality Functions Kleisli Categories

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Django things you want with Htmx by BiteCode_dev

Use HTTP 303 for redirections.Setup django-htmx to see Django error response pages despite Ajax.Trigger back client side events from the backend using the Hx-Trigger header.Yes, it does.You can drop a script tag and start using HTMX with any Django website and call it a day. That’s one of the benefits of the tech. Like all techs though

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Four things Chandrayaan-3 has taught us about the lunar South Pole by sohkamyung

The Vikram lander on the Moon, as photographed by the Pragyan rover.Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation via AP/Alamy The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Moon lander Vikram and robotic rover Pragyan have now been told to go to sleep. ISRO hopes to awaken them at lunar dawn on 22 September.But in their two-week sojourn around

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Top Things to Do in New York City by digitalshiv

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Can I do some things with this ChatGPT generated private key? by validkeyquest

ChatGPT created a valid private key, which can be vonverted in a public key and it's also possible to calculate the bitcoin address.this is the private key: 5E7A55C41B0A6B8E7FC4808F4CE5EE853E0B5B510C795098B819E8700F4A3ED5When I calculate the bitcoin address for this private key, I got this addrss, which seems valid: 13bfPkT2cdTkeHJZUZFjv82iP5N23rTzcbhttps://www.blockchain.com/explorer/search?search=13bfPkT2cdTkeHJZUZFjv82iP5N23rTzcbIs it possible to use this private key for bitcoin operations?

ByHackTechJuly 21, 20230Comments

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RFS 3: Things Built on Twitter by boramalper

The Wayback Machine – https://web.archive.org/web/20091101135023/http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html RFS 3: Things Built on Twitter Twitter is important because it’s a new protocol. Fundamentally it’s a messaging protocol where you don’t specify the recipients. It’s really more of a discovery than an invention; that s

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