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Why I’m returning Meta’s limited-edition translucent Ray-Bans.

I’m in a love-hate relationship with these smart shades. This’ll be the second time I’ve returned a pair! I gave them another chance because the see-through model looks fantastic... I’d use them almost every day if I could ditch these dealbreakers.

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RELEASE: Paramilitary Election Interference (202 GB) ddosecrets.com/article/paramil…

A curated selection of leaked chat logs and files from the Paramilitary Leaks focused on efforts by paramilitary and far-right groups to influence and interfere with elections, beginning with America's 2022 mid-term elections.

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Waffle House has its own hurricane index and storm center. Milton is Code Red. Here's what that means qz.com/waffle-house-index-labe…


At 4 PM EDT #Milton has weakened to a Category 3 Major Hurricane. Winds are now 125 mph, pressure up to 950 mb.

Latest satellite view:




This is what happens when an out-of-touch billionaire is in charge. His only idea for how to get users to do something is to literally pay them to do it.
theverge.com/2024/10/9/2426625…


Geriatrics professor scolds #BrokenTimes for ascribing Trump derangement to age: "The article reports a concerning progressive loss of cognitive function and behavioral control that is unlikely to be simply 'normal' aging."
nytimes.com/2024/10/09/opinion…
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

Sorry to ask, about what might be so obvious to you. I read a lot of your posts, but sometimes the big picture can get lost.
All the best, Kai
in reply to Kai Rüsberg

@Ruhrnalist No, happy to discuss. Just hard to summarize all this even at the length of a post on Mastodon.




NEW Congressional Research Service Report

Army Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs)
crsreports.congress.gov/produc…
by Andrew Feickert. 2 page(s).

This is the 23rd published version. See crsreports.congress.gov/produc… for previous versions.




Fediverse, I need your advice.

I have a Canadian friend that is a Chemist and am looking to move to the US, looking for a small town vibe where housing is affordable.

Where in the US is good for this? #askfedi #MovingToTheUSA



Elon Musk's X platform announced that creators are going to be paid based on “engagement with your content from Premium users.” But will they? Read more at @theverge. #X #Twitter #ElonMusk #Tech #Technology flip.it/f9DjE8


Costkea Way in Edinburgh, Scotland

Street names don39;t get more "late capitalism" than this.#section-Atlas




Suwalee in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

Even in Southern Thailand’s capital of curry stalls, the ever-rotating dishes at this institution stand out.#food #restaurants #rice #curry #section-Atlas #section-GastroPlace




[2410.00907] Addition is All You Need for Energy-efficient Language Models


#science #AI

 Large neural networks spend most computation on floating point tensor multiplications. In this work, we find that a floating point multiplier can be approximated by one integer adder with high precision. We propose the linear-complexity multiplication L-Mul algorithm that approximates floating point number multiplication with integer addition operations. The new algorithm costs significantly less computation resource than 8-bit floating point multiplication but achieves higher precision. Compared to 8-bit floating point multiplications, the proposed method achieves higher precision but consumes significantly less bit-level computation. Since multiplying floating point numbers requires substantially higher energy compared to integer addition operations, applying the L-Mul operation in tensor processing hardware can potentially reduce 95% energy cost by element-wise floating point tensor multiplications and 80% energy cost of dot products.


arxiv.org/abs/2410.00907


in reply to nixCraft 🐧

My hard solution: a few drops of superglue and the problem is permanently solved. 😏
in reply to nixCraft 🐧

At first I thought this was madness, but when have I needed it? Also how often the cat turns it on at the login screen.