#USA #history of biowarfare includes airdropping tens of millions of fleas as #weaponry
#USA #history of biowarfare also includes spraying supposedly harmless bacteria all over San Francisco. #weaponry
Most downloaded #AI models on Hugging Face
Classic #biology #humor #paper, “Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis”, by Lazebnik, 02002. “Eventually, I thought of the old broken transistor radio that my wife brought from Russia (Figure 1). Conceptually, a radio functions similarly to a signal transduction pathway in that both convert a signal from one form into another (a radio converts electromagnetic waves into sound waves). My radio has about a hundred various components, such as resistors, capacitors, and transistors, which is comparable to the number of molecules in a reasonably complex signal transduction pathway. I started to contemplate how biologists would determine why my radio does not work and how they would attempt to repair it. Because a majority of biologists pay little attention to physics, I had to assume that all we would know about the radio is that it is a box that is supposed to play music.”
By #cpldcpu. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a deep dive into the #WS2812 addressable LED #electronics #hardware before. The key finding is that the Lite-On LTST-G563 doesn’t do any signal regeneration and will thus work very poorly in long strings.
#cpldcpu got 99.5% MNIST accuracy with variable quantization and depthwise separable convolution on a CH32V002, a newer, smaller #RISC-V #CH32V003 with multiplier #hardware. #microcontrollers #electronics #hardware #neural-networks #toread
Founded in 01798, the Philosophical Magazine where James Clerk Maxwell published the discovery that light is electromagnetic continues publication today.
#cpldcpu decapped CH32V203 #hardware and found a separate NOR flash die in the package with the #microcontrollers. #reverse-engineering #electronics #toread
A site that purportedly compares the #pricing of PCB #manufacturing services from 17 contract manufacturers: AISLER, AIVON, ALLPCB, Bittele (7pcb), Elecrow, Eurocircuits, JLCPCB (EasyEDA), Lion Circuits, NextPCB, OSH Park, PCBCART, PCBgogo, PCBJOINT, PCBWay, ShenZhen2U, Smart Prototyping, U&I (quickturnpcb). 9 of these (AISLER, ALLPCB, Bittele (7pcb), Elecrow, NextPCB, PCBCART, PCBgogo, PCBWay, ShenZhen2U) do assembly too. #electronics
Today’s #security hole in #Linux, a local root, discovered in an hour with #AI, called #copy-fail.
Six key #AI companies in #China: Z.ai (Zhipu AI, GLM), Moonshot AI (Kimi), MiniMax, Baichuan AI, 01.AI, and StepFun.
02019 #introduction to #LaTeX and #TeX.
#Postgres’s #SQL dialect has something called “lateral joins”, used here to slightly ease the creation of a Haskell embedded DSL. #toread
#Itanic’s Not a Thing (#NaT) bit can cause passing too few register parameters to a #C function to crash the program because the compiler tried to spill a NaT value to the stack. Also leaf functions that don’t create their own stack frames can get an Illegal Operation fault for “writing a stack register that lies outside the current frame”; SPARC-like sliding windows, I guess, but by variable amounts. #history #gross #facepalm
why you maybe shouldn’t do hot code upgrades in #Erlang all the time. I haven’t read this.
you should maybe use #FastCGI instead of #HTTP to talk between your reverse proxies and your backend servers to avoid #security problems unless you need #WebSockets
another #security problem found in August in #HTTP 1.1 #toread
#Scott-Aaronson #AMA #interview on #QC and #cryptocurrencies #toread
Apparently #Benjamin-Franklin and #John-Adams admired #Haidar-Ali, the king of #Mysore in #India, who was fighting the English too. #history #toread
review of the dozens of #security bugs found this month in #uutils, the #Rust reimplementation of coreutils/shellutils
#Telluric-currents are apparently a thing
the faction in #Yemen backed by the #UAE until earlier this year. #politics
#PDF #appnote from #TI on the quirks of the #LM324 #opamp #hardware. #electronics
an amd64 gaming PC built from all parts from companies from #China: a Zhaoxin CPU (deriving from VIA and thence from Cyrix) and a #Moore-Threads GPU. #hardware
the #Moore-Threads GPU used by that gaming build. “MTT S80 gaming graphics card comes fully equipped with the advanced ChunXiao chip and houses 4096 MUSA stream processors. Operating at a core frequency of 1.8GHz, it's capable of delivering 14.4 TFLOPS of single-precision floating-point compute power.” #hardware
notes from two years ago on #self-hosting #AI on #Moore-Threads #hardware. Didn’t look good.
#Moore-Threads has a #CUDA clone for #AI called "MUSA"; this repo provides #PyTorch support for it under a 3-clause BSD license.
Chris #Wellons is going all in on #AI coding. “There were multiple factors, but it’s not mere chance it coincides with these early months of the automation of software engineering. I left an employer that is years behind adopting AI to one actively supporting and encouraging it. As of March, in my professional capacity I no longer write code myself. My current situation was unimaginable to me only a year ago. Like it or not, this is the future of software engineering. (...) Most people only use limited, free services, so there’s a broad unawareness of just how far AI has advanced. AI is now highly skilled at programming, and better than me at almost every programming task, with inhumanly-low defect rates. (...) Also like a manager, I have not read most of the code, and instead focused on results, so you might say this was “vibe-coded.””
a pretty breathless #futurism article about #AI from a couple months ago. “The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do”, is the experience everyone else is about to have. Law, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, customer service. Not in ten years. The people building these systems say one to five years. Some say less. And given what I've seen in just the last couple of months, I think “less” is more likely.” Kind of anxiety-provoking! #toread