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The Ladybird browser project

Ladybird is an ongoing project to build an independent web browser from scratch.

https://ladybird.dev/

zoe.com

Feed your

https://zoe.com/

How ZOE Works

Discover how to eat for better health

https://zoe.com/how-it-works

Clicks for iPhone

Clicks brings a REAL KEYBOARD to your iPhone. Enjoy the feel of buttons, type with precision and double your space to create. Available now. Ships worldwide.

https://www.clicks.tech/

You shouldn’t run NSA-grade Wi-Fi at home. Here’s how to do it

For our 2023 holiday project, we're setting up an WPA3 Enterprise certificate-authenticated Wi-Fi network at home! And when your family from out of town asks to "jump on the Wi-Fi real quick," you'll learn why this type of network is such a hassle to manage.

https://smallstep.com/blog/home-network-eap-tls-wifi/#background-on-eap-tls-and-radius

Dan Colen | Gagosian

Learn about the work and career of artist Dan Colen. Artworks, biography, exhibitions, editorial content, news, museum exhibitions, press, and more.

https://gagosian.com/artists/dan-colen/

过程工程所开发甲醛传感与治理高性能新材料--中国科学院过程工程研究所

中国科学院过程工程研究所前身是1958年成立的中国科学院化工冶金研究所。五十多年来，研究范围逐步扩展到能源化工、生化工程、材料化工、资源/环境工程等领域，学科方向由“化工冶金”发展为“过程工程”。

http://www.ipe.cas.cn/xwdt_/kyjz/202209/t20220919_6514267.html

Organ pipe physics

A pipe converts quasi-steady energy into oscillating energy

Hacking a CTF: Do not use ECB mode for encryption

I recently started doing CTF challenges. A few days ago, I was working on a challenge from 247CTF.com. I found a challenge that, in my opinion, shows why using ECB(Electronic Codebook) mode for encrypting with block ciphers like AES or Twofish isn’t a good idea. So, I decided to write a series of blog posts where I solve these challenges and explain how to prevent these kinds of attacks.

https://znano.eu.org/blog/posts/hacking-a-ctf-do-not-use-ecb-mode-for-encryption

After LLMs became "mainstream" with ChatGPT in late 2022, it took less than one year for several DBMS vendors to add their own vector search extensions. These include SingleStore, Oracle, Rockset, and Clickhouse. Several PostgreSQL-derivative systems also announced support for vector search; some use the pgvector extension (Supabase, AlloyDB), while others use other open-source ANN libraries (Timescale, Neon). Leading NoSQL DBMSs like MongoDB and Cassandra also added vector indexes.

Databases in 2023: A Year in Review | OtterTune

From the rise of vector databases to SQL:2023 to MariaDB troubles and the FAA outage, 2023 was an exciting year in database history.

https://ottertune.com/blog/2023-databases-retrospective

• Plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies

• Apple silicon first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks

• AVX, AVX2 and AVX512 support for x86 architectures

• Mixed F16 / F32 precision

• 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit and 8-bit integer quantization support

• CUDA, Metal and OpenCL GPU backend support

Efficient LLM inference

On quantization, distillation, and efficiency

https://www.artfintel.com/p/efficient-llm-inference

Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

A very simple way to improve the performance of almost any machine learning algorithm is to train many different models on the same data and then to average their predictions. Unfortunately,...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531

DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper...

As Transfer Learning from large-scale pre-trained models becomes more prevalent in Natural Language Processing (NLP), operating these large models in on-the-edge and/or under constrained...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01108