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av3csron What dating apps are optimizing

I’ve always mused with the concept that these companies could, in theory, start covert eugenics programs

av3csron Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard

I've been enjoying her "Instant Classics" podcast

av3csron Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens

Was nice seeing that the 5090 exists, but boy, those prices.

av3csron Windows Control Panel set for deprecation

One thing I greatly dislike about the settings app is the fact we can only have one section opened at once. If you are debugging, say Bluetooth and sound issues, the setting app can only exclusively show either Bluetooth or Sound, not both, (AFAIK) you can't open a second instance of the app.

av3csron A simple circuit could offer an alternative to energy-intensive GPUs

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.00537

av3csron Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

They are int4 quantized

av3csron Demystifying GPU compute architectures

The only "documentation" we have is in the form of the binary utility docs, which has a list of SASS instructions

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-binary-utilities/index.htm...

though there is no guarantee this is exhaustive, no opcodes either (though you could reverse engineer it using cuobjdump -sass and a hex editing like I've been doing). I'm pretty sure some of the instructions in the list are deprecated as well (95% percent sure that PMTRIG does nothing >Volta)

av3csron ScummVM on the App Store

Been playing Might and Magic IV & V (Worlds of Xeen) on ScummVM lately, probably the best way to play them.

av3csron Simplifying GPU Application Development with HMM

According to the manual, UVM is supposed to be working on vGPUs (at least MIG-backed vCS), I could never get it working though

av3csron Ask HN: Is anyone using AI to help with parsing data?

I've had luck extracting/parsing documentation with chatGPT and the Link Reader plugin.

av3csron A four-decade secret: One man’s story of sabotaging Carter’s re-election

I watched the Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary a few weeks ago, this reminds me of the claims that the Nixon campaign pretty much did the same thing in '68 with the Republic of Vietnam and the peace talks (i.e. our guy will get you a better deal.)

av3csron Avatar 2 looks different from every movie you’ve ever seen–here’s why

Hopefully the setting will help it avoid the soap-opera/theatre look of The Hobbit

av3csron DeepMind Dramatron: a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts

They do have the repo in their github account https://github.com/deepmind/dramatron

av3csron Flight Simulator 1975

I was wondering how Flight Simulators worked in the 70's, was pleasantly surprised. Really creative solution for the visual feedback.

av3csron Another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis

This report is relevant. If I recall correctly it pointed that some of these analyses are not really reproducible.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf

av3csron MantaRay: Open-Source Ray Tracer

Same person who wrote the petrol engine sound simulation, good stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970

av3csron Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin

This site seems to be provide a through price analysis of insulin nowadays https://www.goodrx.com/healthcare-access/research/how-much-d...

av3csron Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time

Reminds me of the Ousmane Bah v. Apple situation

av3csron A passenger with no flying experience landed a plane

Reminds me of the this case https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqPvVxxIDr0 (albeit that pilot had some experience)

av3csron 717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch

They used a Hasselblad H6D mounted on a rig

av3csron Wordle Is a Love Story

I always start with HAOLE

av3csron Ask HN: What book(s) did you love reading this year?

* Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

* Royal Tars: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy - Brian Lavery

* SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard

av3csron Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest

The explanation reminds me of this wonderful (and previously posted on HN) article https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

av3csron Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in Greece

A small follow-up on that destroyed sketch by Caccia

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1163872/the-mystery-of-...

av3csron SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll

Yep, nothing novel about it

av3csron SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll

I think MAUs are multiply-accumulate units.

av3csron The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war

Their largest border is shared with Brazil

av3csron AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech

Sounds like a more general version of what Sambanova is doing with their Dataflow unit.

av3csron Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using NSO Group spyware

Technically the joint venture between Novalpina Capital and two of the original founders have a majority stake on the company.

Is ARM a Japanese company because it's (currently) owned by SoftBank? Will it be American when Nvidia takes over? Or are they a British company because they are based in the UK?