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Nvidia and Microsoft on Monday revealed they have been working together on something called the “Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model.” The two companies claim they’ve created the...

Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A service for programmers, has been acquired by European investment firm Prosus, co-founder Joel Spolsky announced Wednesday, for a price tag of $1.8 billion, per the Wall Street Journal.Why it matters: Stack Overflow's success at enabling expert developers to share tips and shards of working code became the foundation for many novices' knowledge and built a community that helped more advanced practitioners solve tough problems.Get market news worthy of...

Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A service for programmers, has been acquired by European investment firm Prosus, co-founder Joel Spolsky announced Wednesday, for a price tag of $1.8 billion, per the Wall Street Journal.Why it matters: Stack Overflow's success at enabling expert developers to share tips and shards of working code became the foundation for many novices' knowledge and built a community that helped more advanced practitioners solve tough problems.Get market news worthy of...

SHARE Tech investment firm Prosus NV today said that it will pay $1.8 billion to acquire Stack Overflow, a hugely popular website for developers that boasts more than 100 million users. Stack Overflow is operated by Stack Exchange Inc., a venture-backed startup that has raised more than $150 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The deal will also see Prosus obtain Stack Overflow for Teams, a cloud-based collaboration service that the startup operates alongsid...

How Lasers are Making Dangerous Air Flight Stages Safer Image Credit: aapsky/Shutterstock.com The landing phase is the most intensive stage of an aircraft’s flight. According to Szondy (2021), up to 40% of crashes occur during this phase. This is likely due to the method of landing, in which pilots use visual cues and peripheral vision to judge their landing. These cues can be inaccurate or hard to see in situations of poor visibility. AirText, a company already versed in air...

This story is part of a group of stories called 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. In honor of the enduring classics, were exploring every aspect of Peter Jacksons trilogy, from JRR Tolkiens source material to the best scenes and moments, along with the continued influence of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King on modern pop culture. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy contains one of the great mysteries of our mod...

Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? $\begingroup$ Its very easy to filter a signal by performing an FFT on it, zeroing out some of the bins, and then performing an IFFT. For instance: t = linspace(0, 1, 256, endpoint=False) x = sin(2 * pi * 3 * t) + cos(2 * pi * 100 * t) X = fft(x) X[64:192] = 0 y = ifft(X) The high frequency component is completely removed by this "brickwall" FFT filter. But Ive heard this is not a good method to use. Why is it generally a bad idea? ...

see my "final pretrial Twitter thread"). Im not like those New Years resolutioners starting to smoke again a week later. This post is not about the trial itself or the antitrust matters involved, but about suspicious social media activity of the astroturfing kind. Its publicly discoverable that Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney and I follow each other on Twitter, and sometimes retweet or like each others tweets. Other than that, I dont know him and Im 100% independent from Epic. I have my ...

Richard Borcherds is a British mathematician at Berkeley, who won the 1998 Fields Medal for the proof of the monstrous moonshine conjecture among many other contributions. A couple months ago, Borcherds posted on YouTube a self-described “rant” about quantum computing, which was recently making the rounds on Facebook and which I found highly entertaining. Borcherds points out that the term “quantum supremacy” means only that quantum computers can outperform existing classical computer...