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1. CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks Total comment counts : 19 Summary The article introduces CoreNet, a deep neural network toolkit developed by Apple. CoreNet allows researchers and engineers to train various types of models for tasks like object classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. The article also provides instructions for installing and using CoreNet, as well as information on its publication and development team. It mentions that CoreNet evolved from CVNets and mentions the importance of citing their work....

1. Krazam OS Total comment counts : 51 Summary The article appears to be a combination of various text fragments that are unrelated and do not form a coherent article or message. It mentions a variety of topics such as videos, gallery, merchandise, copyright, security, safe space, and recycling, but there is no clear narrative or summary to provide. Top 1 Comment Summary The article discusses how a certain merch store is missing out on potential revenue because it does not reference their most popular videos....

1. Equinox.space Total comment counts : 202 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary The author of the article provides background information on a project called “Equinox.” The author also offers to answer any questions. For more details, the author includes a link to the project. Top 2 Comment Summary The article discusses a game with visually stunning graphics that has a premise of players maintaining a ship during a long journey, facing various problems and making sacrifices along the way....

1. Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) Total comment counts : 65 Summary This person is expressing agreement with a blog post about Tim Ottinger’s thoughts on software development. They mention that there are various things and artifacts that can be produced to ensure quality, such as literate coding, commenting code before writing, and using data modeling and UML diagrams. Top 1 Comment Summary The author of the article disagrees with the quote that says “Really good developers do 90% or more of the work before they ever touch the keyboard....

1. Ceefax Simulator Total comment counts : 30 Summary The article is about an interactive teletext viewer called Interactive Viewer. It assigns a three digit number to each page and allows users to navigate through pages using number keys or channel buttons. It also features live pages from Ceefax and provides information about the creator and how to get in touch. Top 1 Comment Summary The article discusses the author’s experience with VCR programming in the past, where a VCR could access TV listings and allow the user to select programs for recording....

1. Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol Total comment counts : 31 Summary The article announces that Supabase Storage is now an officially recognized S3-Compatible Storage Provider, a highly requested feature. Resumable Uploads also transitioned from Beta to Generally Available. The Supabase Storage Engine is open source and offers three interoperable protocols for file management. The S3 API is now accessible for developers of various experience levels, providing compatibility with other APIs....

1. Meta Llama 3 Total comment counts : 87 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary The article contains multiple links to different sources, but it does not provide any text for me to summarize. Top 2 Comment Summary The article discusses a comparison between the performance of different versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, specifically GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. The author mentions evaluation scores such as MMLU, GPQA, MATH, HumanEval, and DROP, indicating that GPT-4 outperforms GPT-3....

1. Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL’s optimizer Total comment counts : 10 Summary The article discusses the author’s investigation into the performance improvements of PostgreSQL’s query optimizer over the last 10 years. The author ran the join order benchmark on PostgreSQL versions 8 through 16 and recorded the 90th percentile query latency for each version. The author found that PostgreSQL’s tail performance has improved significantly, with the optimizer reducing tail latency by nearly half between version 8 and version 16....

1. Descent 3 Source Code Total comment counts : 66 Summary The article discusses the release of the Descent 3 source code, including the 1.5 patch. The code has been modified to work on Windows, Linux, and Mac, but some proprietary sound and video libraries have been removed. The author is seeking help to create a converter for the old cutscenes. They plan to get the code compiling again and clean it up....

1. Visualizing Attention, a Transformer’s Heart [video] Total comment counts : 23 Summary The article thanks supporters of a video and current patrons who fund ongoing projects. It also encourages readers to join if they find the lessons valuable. Top 1 Comment Summary The author, who has a background in quantum chemistry and some knowledge of machine learning, notices similarities between the transformer model and quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics, the state of a physical system is represented by a high-dimensional vector, and its evolution over time is defined by a time-translation operator....