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CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

home.cern
395 points·by fnands·3 months ago·85 comments

Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024)

arxiv.org
70 points·by fnands·4 months ago·20 comments

Translating Cython to Mojo, a first attempt

fnands.com
87 points·by fnands·9 months ago·33 comments

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fnands
·16 hours ago·discuss
He never said impossible, just hard.

But how is this news? Memory safety bugs are one of (if not the) main source of bugs in C/C++ and also Zig, and Rust's main claim to fame is that it makes it easy to catch these issues at compile time. I feel his criticisms of Zig are fairly uncontroversial.
fnands
·3 days ago·discuss
You can also take a Bildungsurlaub (educational leave, 5 days a year or 10 days every two years) and take a German course. For a two week course with private tutoring it's like 1k, which at your income level is not much. A lot of bureaucracy in Germany becomes a lot easier once you get over the B1 hump.
fnands
·8 days ago·discuss
Good point. Will do so as well. I've been using it for about a year now on my NAS. I basically set it and forget it, and it has just worked.
fnands
·16 days ago·discuss
What radar pipelines are you working on (out of pure curiosity here)
fnands
·25 days ago·discuss
I'm pretty sure if he did that someone would complain that he is using people as free labour to increase his youtube revenues.

It's impossible to do anything on the internet without someone in the peanut gallery telling you you are doing something wrong.
fnands
·last month·discuss
That seems to be the way things are going.

Large general models have taken over in NLP, and (outside of embedded/low latency applications) it seems like they are coming for CV next.

So you should soon be able to have large generic model that can detect whatever for you.

It's already pretty much possible with open-vocabulary detectors like SAM3, where you could just prompt it with "Apple": https://ai.meta.com/research/sam3/
fnands
·2 months ago·discuss
Fighting AI with AI?

What a wild future.
fnands
·2 months ago·discuss
Visiting Tristan Da Cunha is on my bucket list. Just a shame it takes so long to get there, but maybe that's part of the appeal.
fnands
·2 months ago·discuss
That jump video is wild. Can't see the island until the last few minutes.
fnands
·2 months ago·discuss
The alerts system and sharing with caregivers is a solved problem already (e.g. Dexcom's Follow, Abbot's LibreLinkUp).

Do you find the analytics actually helps? I.e. a lot of this will depend on what you ate and whether or not you logged it?
fnands
·2 months ago·discuss
Yeah, it seems that it is much easier to avoid enshittification when you are publicly held (and print money)
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
This is more aimed to warn pedestrians who wear ANC headphones. Should people be prohibited from wearing headphones while walking?
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
Eh, it's pragmatic.

It's replacing a problem you can't solve (human stupidity), with one you can (a better bell).
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
For a moment I thought this was an April fools joke product.

Pretty cool though!
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
Alright then: killjoy
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
Gérard Hommelibre?

Bonjour, and bienvenue to the Black Mesa - pardon, la Mesa Noire - Établissement de Recherche. Please keep your hands inside le tramway at all times, and do try not to provoquer une cascade de résonance. Merci.
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
They do some good tours. They are first come/first serve, so show up in the morning for the best chance to get a place.
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
Nice, I didn't get it.

I just realized "Kyouryuu" is Japanese for dinosaur.

And Pfirsich is of course Peach.
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
They got the intern to write a funny post. Probably took them an hour and it drums up a bit of good press for the Hi-Lumi LHC.

Money well spent if you ask me.
fnands
·3 months ago·discuss
I always look forward to CERN's April fools jokes!