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The course provides a systematic framework to understand the most challenging issues in sustainability in the real estate industry. It examines economic mechanisms, technological advances, business models, building design, and investment and financing strategies available for the different market players to promote sustainability in the building sector. Prof. [Siqi Zheng](https://www.siqizheng.com/about) is the facu

Intel finally provides a clearer overview of Raptor Lake instability issues No recall, no fix for affected CPUs, investigation still ongoing.  Intel has responded to press inquiries about the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen Core processors. Questions from The Verge to Intel were prompted by an earlier, rather underwhelming statement that did not […]

All good things must come to an end. I've decided to end the Funtoo Linux project. Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to move on to other things. There is not a successor BDFL for Funtoo...

The second edition of Deep Learning Interviews is home to hundreds of fully-solved problems, from a wide range of key topics in AI. It is designed to both rehearse interview or exam specific topics and provide machine learning MSc / PhD. students, and those awaiting an interview a well-organized overview of the field. The problems it poses are tough enough to cut your teeth on and to dramatically improve your skills-

Layers of Optimization

Visual programming and textual code should co-exist next to each other, not replace one another

Hi, I'm Lex (they/them)I made a very silly fax service.In the video it is running on York Hackspace's internal phone system.It also ran at EMFCamp 2024 on th...

A digital "primordial soup" with no rules or direction can lead to the emergence of self-replicating artificial life forms, in an experiment that may hint at how biological life began on Earth

We got some answers from Intel, and more are on the way.

Dealing with unexpected popularity

In this post, I’ll iteratively optimize an implementation of matrix multiplication written in CUDA.My goal is not to build a cuBLAS replacement, but to deepl...

Phones are supported well beyond their average ownership lifetime. In stark contrast, automakers are struggling to work out how long their “smartphones on wheels” can be kept on the road.

The risks of U.S. commercial banks being overexposed to commercial real estate (CRE) have intensified as the global pandemic upended long-held economic assumptions of perpetually subdued inflation, low interest rates, and in-office work. An analysis from The Conference Board suggests that in the next two years, more than $1 trillion in CRE loans will come due, and an increasing number of banks, mostly regional and co

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal calls attacks ‘acts of sabotage’, says they were ‘prepared and coordinated’.

There are times when adopting a standard approach just isn't good enough. This post is about making minimal changes for maximum effect where it matters.

The TGV high-speed rail network has been disrupted on lines to the country's west, north and east, affecting some 800,000 passengers and causing delays ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

Next, maybe we could teach AI to respect people's boundaries.

Introduction & background information NOTE: This content is from an internal talk I gave, thus the reason it may read like a presentation So what is bcachefs? bcachefs is a next-generation copy-on-write (COW) filesystem (FS) that aims to provide features similar to Btrfs and ZFS, written by Kent Overstreet Copy-on-write (COW), with goal of performance being better than other COW filesystems Full checksums on ever

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 9.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. …

OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.

2024 is seeing the inevitable outcome of the building boom in solar farms.

The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones.

A new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago.

An interactive HTML pretty-printer for machine learning research in IPython notebooks. - google-deepmind/treescope

In 2021, Cameo reached a $1 billion valuation, but it has since fallen on hard times, according to a settlement agreement.

Smartphones are trust blockers for parents

A federal judge has rejected a tree-trimming company’s bid to block the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, ruling that the FTC has the power to prevent unfair meth…

Last year we rebuilt our well-loved Stamen basemaps from scratch, re-creating them on a totally new tech stack in partnership with Stadia Maps. This was a bittersweet and challenging process, trying to build new styles that matched the aesthetics of the old maps, while still giving us a fresh start to keep these maps running...

An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy.

Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead

A usable pixel art paint program written in Python - mriale/PyDPainter

HellPot is a cross-platform portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP bots. - yunginnanet/HellPot

Being immunised against shingles has been linked to a reduced dementia risk before and now a study suggests that the newer vaccine wards off the condition more effectively than an older one

This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really

The new law requires the use of open-source software and the publishing of new government code under open-source licenses

We talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.

Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence?

Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.

Officials seized documents from NSO Group in effort to stop handover of information about notorious hacking tool, files suggest

Would your rather observe an eclipse through a pair of new Ray-Bans, or a used Shade 12 welding helmet? Undoubtably the Aviators are more fashionable, but the permanent retinal damage sucks. Fetch …

Japan’s population shrank by 0.7 percent in 2023, although the net loss of 861,237 included a record high inflow of 329,535 foreign nationals.

Those who want to ditch their car might want to avoid North America

Newsom’s order follows a Supreme Court ruling that allowed for such action.

$10 UberEats vouchers sent to people who helped after global IT outage are flagged as potential fraud

Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics

How robots and AI change the meaningfulness of work