Let's kick the developers out! In an exciting episode of the ongoing saga of The Document Foundation (TDF), their Membership Committee has decided that in order to grow the community and accelerate its mission β it would be fitting to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners. For TDF to eject so many, based on unproven [β¦]
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JAX's true calling: Ray-Marching renderers in Python on WebGL Demo (move your mouse/thumb across the image) Why, though? Well, I've been drooling over this tool the cool kids use, and wondering how I can join the gang. It's called JAX. It's got GPU accelerated functions over n-dimensional arrays. And built-in compile-time differentiability of these!? Auto-vectorization?? And you just have to do like with numpy. What's not to like? Go home APL!
Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universeβs most violent eventsβbut scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have uncovered three key discoveries about how unstable atomic nuclei decay during the rapid neutron-capture process, the chain reaction responsible for forging elements like gold and platinum.
A coworker of mine told me that he uses Microsoft Copilot frequently. In fact, he said "I don't know how I did my work without it." That came as a surprise to me. I can't stand Copilot. This is a very
Orchestrate multiple AI coding agents (Claude, Gemini, Codex) in parallel. Isolated git worktrees for every task. No merge conflicts. Mac, Windows, Linux.
The time needed to get $1 in international dollars is 63 minutes in the US. This is about twice the average in Germany, France and the UK according to an Oxford University researcher. This suggests that average poverty is significantly higher in the US.
The tutorial will provide you with an understanding of key requirements for implementing writing systems in information technology. It will do this by examining real examples of a wide range of modern scripts to discover features that a computerized implementation must support.
The tech mogul has declared himself an enemy of introspection, and that conveniently erases considerations of conscience from his amoral investment empire.