if quantum computation is so great, why is quantum mechanics so damn inefficient at generating the particle universe
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MathWorks Interns Share Key Learnings from Internship Experience
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We passed the mic to our interns to ask them what they learned throughout their MathWorks internship
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Access to true GPT-5 then low-cost version to handle load
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Alright folks, I've been thinking about this GPT-5 story. I think that for a month, I really had access to the real GPT-5… and that currently, it's a "low-cost" version to handle the load. My hypothesis is that maybe, in a few months, everyone will be able to
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Grok 4.20 Announced as Natively Multimodal with Video and Audio
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Elon Musk ne perds pas de temps, et s'exprime déjà à propos de la future IA Grok 4.20 : Grok 4.20 sera nativement multimodale, capable de comprendre des flux vidéo et audio, y compris dans leurs moindres détails. L’entraînement du modèle s’est terminé hier.
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ByteDance Seed LiveInterp 2.0 Real-Time Voice Translation Model
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Bytedance released Seed LiveInterp 2.0, a real-time voice translation model
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 11 août 2025
It translates speech 3x faster than before, with >70% correctness and just 3s lag
A big development in real-time cross-lingual communicationpic.twitter.com/mTI0SYH66lBytedance released Seed LiveInterp 2.0, a real-time voice translation model It translates speech 3x faster than before, with >70% correctness and just 3s lag A big development in real-time cross-lingual communication
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Rust vs Python: Programming Language Choice Dilemma
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I don’t know. I don’t program in Rust, and the Python code is still running.
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UW Alumni Success: Matt Deitke’s $250M Meta Achievement
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Come to UW and we’ll teach it to you. Our alum Matt Deitke (4 yrs BS, dropped out of PhD after 1 yr, few months at startup) went straight to making $250M at Meta.
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Linked Data and Connected Systems Transforming Business and Science
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This book had a big impact on my thinking (graph databases, linked data, semantic knowledgebases, contextual metadata, connected IoT, etc.). Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else — What It Means for Business, Science, & Everyday Life = http://
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Post-Launch Disappointment: GPT-5 Generates Buggy Code Instead of Perfect Interfaces
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Well… I can't get results as good as I used to with GPT-5 before the public launch… I'm bummed out. I don't know what's going on. Before the public launch, it used to nail amazing interfaces for me, and now it's generating code with bugs… too weird.