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[Submitted on 11 Oct 2023 (v1), last revised 20 Mar 2024 (this version, v4)] Download a PDF of the paper titled The Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought, by William Merrill and Ashish Sabharwal Download PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Recent theoretical work has identified surprisingly simple reasoning problems, such as checking if two nodes …

For the past week I have been configuring hyprland and using it as my daily driver. Coming from major Desktop Environments like KDE or Gnome, this was definitely quite challanging, specially when implementing features that we take it for granted on these DEs, like screen sharing or screenshot annotating. In this post I will …

As I write these words, lean gray wolves are pacing through a rain-soaked landscape in eastern Europe.  Dim rumbling sounds in the far distance, like summer thunder that’s strayed into the wrong season, don’t bother them. Nor does it trouble them that the forest around them is dotted with the decaying ruins of buildings abandoned …

In the news we’ve seen that Redis will no longer be open source. RonDB has been open source since MySQL 4.1 released in 2004. RonDB is based on MySQL Cluster that is developed by Oracle and they maintain and develop it for the community and for many customers. There is no part in the MySQL …

Did you know…? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. December 10, 2008 This article was contributed by Bruce Byfield Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge is best-known for novels like A Fire Upon the …

Summary:  Skeuomorphism involves designing digital interfaces that imitate physical elements, reducing the learning curve for unfamiliar interactions. Design trends are constantly changing and influencing the way we interact with technology. One such trend from the past is skeuomorphism. While it has since been criticized for its excesses, it brought a sense of familiarity from the …

Chinese researchers have published a new non-peer reviewed paper on their sulfur copper doped led apatite room temperature superconductor. They have increased the Meissner effect signal. Supplemental material from the China researchers. This describes the precise work done show they did not make measurement errors. Background Context In mid-2023, the Original Korean researchers discovered the …

Photo: Mortensen The US battery storage market shattered deployment records across all segments in Q4 2023 – a 101% increase from the previous quarter. The US battery storage sector saw 4,235 megawatts (MW) installed in Q4 2023, according to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association’s (ACP) latest “US Energy Storage Monitor” report. For the …

Do you dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current job? Many people do. But they never make the leap: the costs of switching seem too high, and the possibility of success seems too remote. The answer isn’t to plug away in your current job, unfulfilled and slowly burning out. The answer …

Text-to-image models such as DALL-E and Midjourney can produce impressive, at times even photorealistic, images. Past research by the Stanford Internet Observatory has covered the very serious implications for child safety and nonconsensual intimate imagery. Researchers and policymakers have expressed fears that they could be misused to inject false information into political discourse.  In a new preprint …