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Explores why decimal sums in floating point misbehave. Using 0.1+0.2, it explains IEEE-754 doubles, ulp, and rounding to nearest even; how float(x) differs from x and how Python prints results. It shows Δ = float(float(a)+float(b)) − float(c) is at most 1 ulp(c), often tighter, and analyzes error(x)=float(x) with wraparound causing checkerboard patterns when summing multiples of 0.01. The Appendix presents error-free transformations (two_sum, Veltkamp split, Dekker product) to compute exact floating-point errors, with practical examples in Python/JavaScript.
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Synopsys and OpenAI unveil a multi-year partnership to create GPT-Synopsys, a specialized frontier-model AI that works with Synopsys’ EDA tools to accelerate chip design. The system will reason about design and verification, operate tools via agents, and iteratively optimize power, performance, and area for first-time-right silicon. It runs on OpenAI infrastructure, integrates with Synopsys.ai and Autopilot, and emphasizes enterprise security and data privacy with customer data not used for training. Early customer engagements, plus a revenue-sharing, joint go-to-market arrangement.
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In a Home Forum interview, Jacques Barzun, historian and professor, argues that education should reward flexible intelligence over credentialism, praising universities as homes for great ideas. He critiques the modern arts for destroying expectations through shock, calling much post-1920 art antagonistic and pedagogical, while acknowledging a Romantic revival grounded in conviction. He cites the prewar era as seminal and predicts future originality from forms—electronic music, for instance—rather than mimicking past masterpieces. Barzun resists art's contractual obligations to 'serve' society, emphasizing art's elusive function and the critic's role to sharpen vocabulary; art neither mirrors nor merely teaches, yet remains essential.
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GTM Founder's Associate at truemetrics (Berlin, on-site with optional 1-day remote). Salary €50k-€60k; equity 0.10%-0.50%; 1+ year experience. YC-backed, profitable, >€1.5M ARR; clients like GLS, DPD, PostNord. Role: directly support founders to scale outbound GTM for last-mile mapping tech; two paths—run outbound engine or explore new markets/products. 90-day plan: ramp, gain autonomy, own outbound and a GTM experiment. Ideal: curious, fast learner, comfortable with ambiguity, self-starter; startup experience preferred; languages a plus (French/Italian/Spanish). Apply with CV; interview steps outlined.
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OpenDLSS-NR is a Vulkan reimplementation of NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, achieving bit-exact parity with the original. It includes a Vulkan path (dlss5vk) and an independent WebGPU browser port; the Vulkan version runs FP8 on tensor cores, while the browser port has no tensor cores. The network is a 71-block Swin/ViT model with FP8 activations and 141 MiB of weights, producing per-pixel RGB residuals and a temporal-blend logit, not an upscaler. The repo provides model/fixtures for exact, block-by-block parity, build scripts, and MIT license. Not affiliated with NVIDIA.
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Book of Shapes is a collection of minimal, generative, customizable SVG patterns by Nikolaj Sokolowski. The page groups patterns by styles such as grid, radial, noise, flow, and isometric, and lists numerous pattern names (Flow Dots, Flow Lines, Node Garden, Interference Mesh, Spiral Morph, Iso Cross, Scattered Cube Grid, Iso Sphere, Wave Field, etc.). © 2026 Book of Shapes — created by Nikolaj Sokolowski; Licence Privacy.
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Jeff Kaufman released Clipboard Normalizer as a free Mac App Store menu bar app. It normalizes clipboard content by removing fonts, colors, and sizes, keeping only Markdown-representable semantics, and can convert between rich text and Markdown. The project evolved from a manual script to a packaged app, with Claude’s help; Pandoc was replaced by SwiftSoup and wrapped in Swift, and two earlier apps were merged. It shows a toast after actions, includes tests (XSS and odd formatting), and navigated the App Store review (initial failure for missing demo video).
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The author argues suits outperform modern clothes as functional techwear: they’re tailored to individual proportions, more comfortable, and offer practical pockets and durability. Suits align with his shorter leg-to-torso proportions, whereas modern clothes can’t be adjusted; belts sit right with jackets while modern pants slip. Pockets in women’s clothing are often useless. Zippers fail more than buttons. Modern garments wear out faster. He wears suits when needed despite social awkwardness, valuing comfort and utility over fashion, and notes a childhood lesson about his unique proportions.
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An X post by ivx explains that their old Google Play account was closed for inactivity. They can’t restore it, and Google now requires creating a new Play Console account. They consider distributing the APK via FDroid but would have to join the Android Developer Verification Program, which costs $25 and requires identity verification and a payments profile, even for a non-monetized app. They vent about the gatekeeping and duplicate the post across accounts.
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Green argues sandboxing alone won’t contain rogue agents. Containment, he says, has not been properly tried or governed; security leadership is unclear and accountability weak at frontier labs. Agents need live data and tools, and monitoring flows at scale is infeasible, so a sandbox must couple with guards and strong controls, yet remains fragile as environments shift. Misaligned models aren’t the only problem: production use and prompt-injection allow human-driven abuse. He warns of worm-like risks from compliant agents and urges integrated containment, alignment, and governance.
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Footer from YouTube listing corporate links and NFL Sunday Ticket, © 2026 Google LLC.
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jevotron is a command-line anomaly-detection tool that scores fields in data entries using shared guidance, enabling one-shot scans. Provide a file, set an API key, preview, scan, and review results; results include per-field and entry scores, stored in SQLite for reuse. It supports CSV, YAML, JSON, TOML, text, OBO, and gzip, with options like --field, --guidance, and --guidance-file; a local Python config is available. Examples cover airports, inventory, measurement units, and agent traces; the 'measured pilot' demo reports precision/recall metrics.
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California has banned child marriage, setting 18 as the minimum age and taking effect January 1, 2027. The law ends a system allowing minors to wed with parental consent and a judge’s approval, and it removes a path to divorce for under-18s. About 9,000 girls wed each year in California, many in abusive situations, according to advocates. Survivors like Brittany Bee and Sara Tasneen welcomed the change. California is the 18th state to ban child marriage since 2018, while 32 states still permit it.
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- Purpose: draft protocol for Hardcore Coworking to foster focused work in public spaces.
- Location: libraries or cafes; avoid homes and service-heavy venues.
- Schedule: 50-min work blocks, 10-min breaks; timer; arrive/leave during breaks.
- Tasks: bring concrete tasks (work, study, personal development); no leisure; use Do Not Disturb.
- Breaks: minimal talk during work; eating/drinking allowed if also working.
- Longevity: may take longer breaks or lunch off-site; no lingering after last block.
- Remote: remote meetings okay with minimal talk; otherwise move to own table.
- Note: draft subject to revision; CC BY-NC 4.0.
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Financialisation of food shows how markets securitize surplus—parmesan as bank collateral and Quebec’s maple syrup reserve—to manage accumulation, price volatility, and climate risk. Such fixes can ease shortages but deepen inequality by widening the distance between producers, workers, and consumers and by shifting risk to ecosystems and labor. Climate change threatens storage-based arrangements; automation and blockchain intensify resource use and labor displacement. The author argues these measures are a band‑aid that preserves a capitalist, unequal food system rather than solving it.
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Public records show the Trump-era HIDTA program funnels local license plate reader data from ALPR vendors (Flock, Axon, etc.) into federal surveillance hubs. Using anti-drug funding, HIDTA aggregates data on federal servers and sometimes shares it with the DEA’s National License Plate Reader Program, making it accessible to multiple agencies beyond those with ALPR contracts. MOUs in Georgia and elsewhere require cities to send data to HIDTA. Privacy advocates warn this circumvents local control and FOIA, creating opaque, multi-agency surveillance with broad retention.
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Yantra is a C++-based parser generator with an integrated lexer, AST builder, and AST walker. It uses LALR(1) bottom-up parsing followed by a top-down AST walk, supports multi-mode lexing and Unicode, and can emit either an amalgamated single-file parser or separate .hpp/.cpp files. It builds a self-contained ycc tool from a grammar (e.g., hello.y, calc.y) and compiles with any C++23 compiler. Yantra emphasizes full AST construction before actions, contrasting with Bison/Yacc, ANTLR, and tree-sitter. MIT-licensed; author Renji Panicker.
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pldb is a searchable database of programming languages papers, spanning 1973–2026, aggregating 33,580 papers (26,107 with abstracts) from venues such as POPL, PLDI, ICFP, OOPSLA, ECOOP, ESOP, ICSE, TOPLAS, JFP, and more. It provides venue-based counts and timelines, metadata from dblp (CC0) and abstracts from SIGPLAN OpenTOC, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar. Users can filter and search by topics (e.g., gradual typing, separation logic) and authors. It is a public bibliographic resource for PL research.
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