This Black Friday Meta Quest deal includes a free $75 gift card when you buy the Quest 3S
24 Nov

This Black Friday Meta Quest deal includes a free $75 gift card when you buy the Quest 3S

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It's hard to beat the promise of a big box for one-stop shopping. Target is one of my favorites if I just want to browse with no agenda, because I'll inevitably stumble on something fun or on sale. Or in the case of this Black Friday deal, both. Target is currently selling a Meta Quest 3S for $300, as is Amazon. That's the usual price tag for this virtual reality headset, but both retailers include a $75 gift card along with the tech (On Amazon, use the code QUEST75 to get it.) That covers a lot of impulse buys.MetaThere's a…
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AI is both a new threat and a new solution at the UN climate conference
24 Nov

AI is both a new threat and a new solution at the UN climate conference

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AI requires enormous amounts of energy, threatening global net zero goals.Tech giants may use fossil fuels short-term, raising concerns about clean energy commitments.AI is also ushering in an era of nuclear power, however, which is cleaner.The rapid development of AI is likely to affect global net zero goals in both positive and negative ways.Tech companies are investing in nuclear power plants to fuel AI data centers. Many of these power plants generate power through nuclear fission, which is considered cleaner than fossil fuels and more reliable than wind or solar power. Silicon Valley investors, meanwhile, are investing in nuclear fusion, a…
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The Run-Length of Matchsticks (PWC 296)
24 Nov

The Run-Length of Matchsticks (PWC 296)

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Challenge 296 solutions in Perl by Matthias Muth These are my Challenge 296 Task 1 and 2 solutions in Perlfor The Weekly Challenge - Perl and Raku. Summary Task 1: String CompressionDetecting runs of same characters? Regular expression!Replacing it by its run-length encoding? In the same statement!Reversing the compression as a BONUS? Even simpler! Task 2: Matchstick SquareA short solution based on a CPAN module works well for the examples and is short, but it doesn't really scale for larger sets of matchsticks.In my own implementation, a 'target sum' iterator selects groups of matchsticks that have the needed length of…
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How to Run a Paper Club and Learn With Your Peers
24 Nov

How to Run a Paper Club and Learn With Your Peers

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Over the past 18 months, the Latent Space Paper Club has had an unbroken streak of hosting paper club every single week. That’s at least 80 papers, and likely more, when we consider weeks where we cover related papers (e.g., LoRA + QLoRA). Together, we’ve pre-read and discuss a paper weekly, covering the fundamentals such as: Key components: Attention, LayerNorm, FlashAttention, LoRA/QLoRA, ALiBi, RoPE Models: Transformer, BERT, T5, GPTs, Codex, LLaMAs, Mistral, CLIP, ViT, RWKV, Jamba, Mamba, Latent Consistency Models, Whisper, Moshi, Molmo, TimeGPT Training: InstructGPT, RLHF, RLAIF/CAI, PPO, REST, SPIN, Self-Play, Upcycling Inference: Speculative Decoding, Writing in the Margins,…
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Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 update is crashing some Ubisoft games
24 Nov

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 update is crashing some Ubisoft games

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Microsoft says it’s working with Ubisoft to fix a problem with its latest Windows 11 update that’s been crashing some games, and it’s put the update’s release on pause for devices with those games in the meantime. Following users’ reports of issues after installing the Windows 11 24H2 update, confirmed this weekend that certain games may become unresponsive or display a black screen. The problem affects Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.Ubisoft has released a temporary fix for Star Wars Outlaws, but there still may be some issues, Microsoft…
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Hidden NET 9 gems
24 Nov

Hidden NET 9 gems

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Introduction When Microsoft announces a new version of the NET Framework there are release notes. The release notes do not cover all new additions and/or features. This article will introduce several new features with C# samples. Enumerable.Index<T> Enumerable.Index<T> returns an enumerable that incorporates the element's index into a tuple. Before working with Index<T>, there is the conventional route which is declaring a int variable with a value of -1 and increment the variable in a foreach. Note This is what many seasoned developers use and may very well dislike the new Index extension method as they are set in their…
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Getting started with AI agents (part 2): Autonomy, safeguards and pitfalls
24 Nov

Getting started with AI agents (part 2): Autonomy, safeguards and pitfalls

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In our first installment, we outlined key strategies for leveraging AI agents to improve enterprise efficiency. I explained how, unlike standalone AI models, agents iteratively refine tasks using context and tools to enhance outcomes such as code generation. I also discussed how multi-agent systems foster communication across departments, creating a unified user experience and driving productivity, resilience and faster upgrades. Success in building these systems hinges on mapping roles and workflows, as well as establishing safeguards such as human oversight and…
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