🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.
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Turning the Moon into a fuel depot involves substantial energy, with 24 kWh needed per kilogram of oxygen extracted from lunar regolith. Given the large amounts required, significant infrastructure, like solar arrays or nuclear power, is essential to support sustainable space exploration.
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Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle challenges readers with two geometry puzzles: determining the length of a line segment in a triangle and dividing a square into five rectangles under specific conditions. Solutions were posted later the same day.
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South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission halted new downloads of DeepSeek's app, citing "partially neglected" privacy laws. Issues include lack of transparency on data transfers and excessive data collection. Existing users remain unaffected, and resolution may take time.
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Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 3, a new AI model superior to its predecessors, which can analyze images and answer questions. It enhances the Grok app and offers "reasoning" features for complex queries. Initial access is priced at $50/month.
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Meta plans to build the world’s longest undersea cable, Project Waterworth, to connect the US, India, South Africa, Brazil, and other regions. This 50,000km subsea cable, using advanced 24 fiber-pair systems, aims to enhance global digital connectivity and support economic growth.
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NASA is reducing its workforce by 10%, about 1,800 employees, due to cuts under the Trump administration. The layoffs include new hires and resignations planned for later in the year. Further reductions are possible, regarding budget negotiations and efficiency directives.
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has launched a new AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab, aimed at making AI systems more understandable and customizable. Murati has recruited several top researchers, including OpenAI co-founder John Schulman and CTO Barrett Zoph, to join her team.
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⭐ 2779, 🖖 205
This is a replicate of DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 training on small models with limited data
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⭐ 3070, 🖖 86
The Refactoring library based off the Refactoring book by Martin Fowler
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⭐ 9167, 🖖 422
🍼 Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework.
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⭐ 10094, 🖖 614
A Flexible Framework for Experiencing Cutting-edge LLM Inference Optimizations
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⭐ 4181, 🖖 276
Vue port of Radix UI Primitives. An open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps.
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