ByteDance 'would rather' to=
rpedo TikTok than sell it off (2 minute read)
ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok=
than sell the company. The US only provides a quarter of TikTok's global r=
evenue and only represents 5% of ByteDance's daily active users across all =
of its media platforms. The short deadline to sell would likely put downwar=
d pressure on any potential sale price, making the option even less appeali=
ng. Selling the company would mean divesting the algorithms that power TikT=
ok and its video recommendations, which raises more complications.
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Oracle's Jump to Nashville =
Surprises Austin (5 minute read)
Oracle has moved to Nashville, Tennesse=
e, to offer its employees a better lifestyle. Nashville pledged $175 millio=
n in incentives and the state of Tennessee $65 million to help build the Or=
acle campus in 2021. There were no additional incentives from the city ahea=
d of Oracle's headquarters announcement. Oracle plans to get closer to the =
healthcare industry - the Nashville area's healthcare industry employs more=
than 300,000 people and adds $68 billion to the Nashville region's economy=
..
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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The Robotics Renaissance (1=
3 minute read)
Intelligent androids will be a part of =
industrial activities and aspects of everyday life over the next decade. Mo=
dern AI models have changed the game, allowing robots to learn from online =
text, images, and videos. This article takes a look at the modern robotics =
industry, highlighting new technologies, current capabilities, potential ap=
plications, major players in the space, and the impacts the technology will=
have on society.
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Recoding Voyager 1 =E2=80=
=94 NASA's interstellar explorer is finally making sense again (9 minute re=
ad)
Engineers have partially restored a 197=
0s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-di=
stance troubleshooting. Voyager 1 is on an outbound trajectory more than 15=
billion miles from Earth, so it takes almost two days for engineers to upl=
ink a command and get a response. The spacecraft suddenly stopped transmitt=
ing intelligible data in November. Engineers eventually found the issue, wh=
ich was in the system responsible for packaging engineering and scientific =
data for transmission to Earth. A single chip responsible for storing a por=
tion of memory stopped working, probably due to either a cosmic ray hit or =
a failure of aging hardware.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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llamafile's progress, four =
months in (11 minute read)
The llamafile project has become one of=
Mozilla's top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub. llamafile is an=
easy and fast way to run a wide range of open large language models on con=
sumer hardware. This article covers the project's development, explaining t=
he changes that have been implemented since v0.1. The latest release includ=
es support for the very latest open models and a number of big performance =
improvements for CPU inference.
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Ruby might be faster than y=
ou think (3 minute read)
The crystalruby project allows writing =
and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file, bringing significant=
performance improvements to code compared to their pure Ruby versions. How=
ever, the Ruby implementation the project uses contains a subtle mistake th=
at causes significantly more work than it needs to. Fixing this mistake mak=
es the Ruby code run faster than the 'crystalized' method. Future advanceme=
nts in the Ruby JIT may make these small tweaks unnecessary.
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Corporate Open Source is De=
ad (6 minute read)
Startups and megacorps have used and ab=
used open source to build up billions in revenue over the past decade. Corp=
orate Open Source has died - open source cultures rely on trust, and time a=
nd time companies have shattered that trust with the developers who helped =
build them. Contributor License Agreements are a strategy employed by comme=
rcial companies to subvert the open source social contract. Developers shou=
ld stay away from projects that require them and stick to open source licen=
ses that respect their freedom.
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FCC officially votes to rei=
nstate net neutrality (6 minute read)
The Federal Communications Commission h=
as voted to reinstate net neutrality, barring broadband providers from slow=
ing or blocking internet traffic to some sites while improving access to ot=
hers. The FCC had announced that it would pursue this as a policy goal in S=
eptember and there was no reason the Commission would vote against it. The =
new net neutrality rules still have to weather challenges in court, and dep=
ending on the outcome of the election, they may be rolled back or legislate=
d away. The rules still have to be published in the Federal Register - and =
then there is another waiting period - before they will take effect.
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tiny-gpu (GitHub Repo)
tiny-gpu is a minimal GPU implementatio=
n in Verilog optimized for learning about how GPUs work from the ground up.
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