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OpenRewrite modules are distributed via the Code Genome Project and require authentication; Maven Central remains for transitive dependencies. A bill of materials (rewrite-bom) aligns all module versions, with rewrite-recipe-bom recommended for compatibility. The page lists module coordinates and licenses (core, docker, java, yaml, recipe modules, etc.). Configure Maven/Gradle to access the Code Genome Project while keeping Central. The Moderne CLI can install latest recipe modules (coordinates shown; pinning is optional). Marketplace sync supports: (1) sync from app.moderne.io, or (2) import a self-hosted CSV; if REST fails, GraphQL per-artifact install is used, with a provided mutation.
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MCP lets AI assistants fetch data directly from publishers’ servers, with sources, licenses, authors, and last-updates, enabling decentralised, up-to-date, verifiable answers. Launched by Anthropic in 2024 and handed to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation in 2025, it shifts data hosting from web indexes to publisher servers, emphasising citation and trust. Contexte Tech demonstrates an MCP-enabled catalogue: multilingual search, resource reading by short code, and mandatory citations, illustrating how open servers could form a common foundation for honest, decentralised AI search. Publishers should run their own MCP servers to enable this future.
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Wildcamera’s tonen hoe zwijnen en herten zich aanpassen aan de wolf. Op de Veluwe veranderen prooidieren zoals wilde zwijnen en herten hun gedrag door de aanwezigheid van wolven, zeggen boswachters en faunabeheerders. Unieke beelden van Natuurmonumenten bevestigen dit. De video illustreert dat wolven de Veluwe-ecosystemen beïnvloeden, bijvoorbeeld door alerter gedrag bij dieren.
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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is an MIT-licensed image-to-text-to-text transformer update (minor upgrade to DeepSeek V4.1-Flash) with improved reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks, while reducing execution time and output length for cost efficiency. It offers multiple deployment options: Hugging Face Transformers pipelines and AutoModelForCausalLM, vLLM, SGLang, Docker, and other runtimes; supports various quantizations; includes prompt-encoding tooling and the deepseek-recipe Rust library to convert prompts and parse outputs. Not yet deployed by any inference provider. Includes benchmarks and citation info.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the Oct 17, 2026 snapshot of a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model built on DeepSeek’s Causal Encoder-Decoder. It activates 8B input and 16B output from a 552B backbone, with compressed KV caching for lower cost. It includes native image understanding, supports long-horizon tasks, and is positioned as the cost-efficient V4.1 Flash tier that surpasses V4 Pro. Pricing: $0.15 input, $0.60 output per 1M tokens (cache reads $0.003). Context window: 1,048,576 tokens; max completion: 393,216. Latency 1.24s (P50), 155 tps; uptime ~99.72% (3d). EU in-region not available.
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Erwin Nieuwlaar won the $50K First Letters Prize for PHerc. 343 in the Vesuvius Challenge, for discovering the first readable text in the carbonized scroll since AD 79. Using an open-source spiral unwrap and an ink-detection pipeline on an 8.64 μm scan, he averaged four models (ink_9um, Hecate, dense_native, his own) to reveal a 10-letter segment in four cm², likely the Greek phrase πᾶν τὸ γινόμενον ("everything that happens"). The segment lies on windings w047–w048. The result is reproducible in this open-science project; other submissions followed.
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Ray Myers argues AI in mathematics started as a boon but became toxic as OpenAI and peers push an AI-first agenda that devalues labor. The post charts a trajectory from Terence Tao’s Lean prover advocacy and productive man–machine synergy to a 2025–2026 backlash over funding, attribution, and marketing. Key episodes include the Navier–Stokes effort, Fermat’s Last Theorem formalization, and OpenAI’s controversial October release. The Association for Human Mathematics calls for no-contact with OpenAI and criticizes the drift from human-centered science. The author urges funding math and preserving human agency.
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Lingua Franca is the first reactor-oriented coordination language for deterministic, time-sensitive, multi-threaded and distributed programs. It embeds timing semantics, avoids manual synchronization, and guarantees race-free behavior by construction. It supports seamless progression from single to distributed architectures and defines a clear notion of simultaneous events, enabling fair, predictable execution. Programs are written using reactive reactors whose bodies can be written in C, C++, Python, TypeScript, or Rust, without relying on thread libraries or middleware. Open-source and research-backed, it originated at UC Berkeley with international collaborators.
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The article introduces dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg, a memory-budget solver for PyTorch activation planning that reduces peak RAM during memory planning by ~20x compared to the default dp_knapsack. It uses sliding window and Hirschberg tricks to shrink the DP table to 2 x max_weight, enabling handling of thousands of items within a RAM budget. It compares solvers: greedy_knapsack, ilp_knapsack (SciPy), default dp_knapsack, and the new dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg. Usage: set activation_memory_budget_solver to dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg. Acknowledgments.
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llmspeed is a JavaScript-based simulator that lets you gauge how fast a local LLM would feel on different hardware and models before buying. It lists hardware (NVIDIA RTX GPUs, Macs, CPUs) and models (Qwen, Gemma, Llama, Ornith, Muse, etc.), with estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Numbers come from community benchmarks and projections. The project is open-source on GitHub (nicorobinreal/llmspeed) and requires JavaScript to run in a browser.
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Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank, injuring at least 20 and beating Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who had passport and gear stolen. In eight villages, masked settlers used rocks, clubs and firearms as they burned cars and trees to disrupt the harvest; Israeli troops fired tear gas. The violence reflects a surge this month (about 170 attacks since Sept. 27), with several Palestinians killed and thousands of trees damaged. Rights groups say settlers act with impunity amid Area C land restrictions and limited Israeli action.
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A 403 Forbidden error means you don’t have permission to access the requested resource.
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Marcin Wichary argues icons often obscure meaning rather than simplify, using car headlight controls and Apple’s iOS icons as examples. He notes that many icons (checkmark, magnifier, close) carry multiple meanings, confusing users on first contact, especially on touch devices without tooltips. Drawing on Dmitry Fadeyev’s False simplicity and Jef Raskin’s findings, he critiques the move to icon-only interfaces for labels, emphasizes the need for text labels or contextual hints (tooltips) to teach icons, and suggests potential dashboard-like tooltips to clarify modes.
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Fakeipedia is a wiki of alternate realities, cataloging worlds like The Veracity Shift (no lies without pain since 1998); The Talking Commons (humans share cities with animals since 1982); ASI (Earth ruled by ASI from 2048); The Eternal Broadcast (every signal returns 50 years later from a happier Earth); The Great Awakening (conspiracies proven true); The Insomnia Dividend (sleep eliminated for 85% since 2004); You Solipsism (solipsism proven in 2019; encyclopedia written for its only reader); The Literal Afterlife (living and dead stay in touch by pay-per-minute calls since 1991).
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Ultramarine 1 Flash is Paper Instruments’ Fable-class model for professional knowledge-work (finance, law, consulting, operations). It claims 60x cheaper than Fable and 6.5% fewer output tokens than GLM-5.3 Flash, on six PI Knowledge Work benchmarks. It outperforms many rivals on cost per task (about $0.13/task) and targets clean, presentation-ready Excel/PowerPoint/Word outputs in live systems. API weights are coming soon; technical report details benchmarking and professional-data evaluations.
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A blog post titled 'A week on the farm with Dylan Araps' on Adam Schaefers Projects Blog. It introduces Adam Schaefers (Devops, Full stack dev, Gamedev, Founder) and links to contact info and profiles (email, GitHub a-schaefers, Twitch @enchantdev). It promotes a free Emacs course to avoid RSI/'emacs pinky' and notes a 5:04 video. The page lists Latest Work: @LandOfEnchantment and site links (Sitemap, Privacy, Terms).
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RealWorld, the Medium clone, was implemented entirely in Lean 4 (server, Postgres, and frontend via Datastar-lean). It passes API and website test suites; backend ~1,033 lines; uses Lean's HTTP server, lean-routing, leanpostgres, lean-html, lean-markdown, and libraries. Production viability is limited by Lean’s HTTP performance and toolchain fragility; the author suggests a pinned toolchain and modest traffic. Correctness by construction is not achieved: the OpenAPI spec is formal about types but not behavior, and while some properties are proven (e.g., route-type alignment, slug validity, escaping), the app is not derivable from a formal spec. Running instructions are in the repo.
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