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2025-04-01

Go Concurrency: Goroutines, Mutexes, WaitGroups & Condition Variables

Go’s concurrency model revolves around goroutines—lightweight, runtime-managed threads. Synchronization is achieved via Mutexes, WaitGroups, and Condition Variables, ensuring safe execution. The Go scheduler maps goroutines to OS threads for efficiency,...

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Rules, Exceptions, and Exploration: The Secret to EXPLORER’s Success

EXPLORER outperforms baselines by combining neural exploration and symbolic reasoning, excelling in text-based games with unseen entities.

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Beyond Seen Worlds: EXPLORER’s Journey into Generalized Reasoning

EXPLORER dynamically generalizes symbolic rules using WordNet hypernyms to improve performance on unseen entities in text-based games.

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Open Banking Meets AI: The Fintech Lifeline for the Gig Economy?

Gig workers can be considered the backbone of our modern economy. They are often left behind when it comes to financial services. Financial tools are still only catering to the...

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AI That Learns and Unlearns: The Exceptionally Smart EXPLORER

EXPLORER uses Inductive Logic Programming and exception learning to iteratively refine symbolic policies for better adaptability in text-based games.

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Learning Logic in Games: How EXPLORER Combines NLP and RL for

EXPLORER combines neural exploration and symbolic reasoning using Answer Set Programming to enhance decision-making and generalization in text-based games.

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Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning Meets RL: EXPLORER Outperforms in Text-World Games

EXPLORER combines neural exploration and symbolic reasoning to achieve better generalization, interpretability, and performance in text-based games.

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You have got to be kidding me

Mia Sato writing for The Verge: Elon Musk’s $1 Million Handout Winners Are Connected to Republican CausesOn Sunday, a few thousand people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gathered to hear Elon...

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Dangerous Diagnoses? GPT-4V’s Role in Medical Image Interpretation

GPT-4V struggles with medical image interpretation, showing poor diagnostic accuracy and posing risks to patient care, highlighting the need for caution.

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Running Docker Containers on Kubernetes Without a Container Runtime Using WasmEdge

This article explores how to run Docker containers on Kubernetes without a traditional container runtime (like containerd or Docker) by leveraging WasmEdge, a lightweight WebAssembly (WASM) runtime. It explains the...

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Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. “They...

Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. “They screw up the economy. Later down the line, Democrats get elected and have to fix everything.”

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Can GPT-4V Diagnose? A Deep Dive into AI’s Medical Imaging Capabilities

GPT-4V shows potential in medical image interpretation but lacks diagnostic accuracy, highlighting risks and the need for caution in clinical applications.

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Civil Rights and Historical Honesty

A historian's reaction to a recent executive order

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Next.js Locks the Back Door, OpenAI Unlocks Image Generation, and Vue Steals the Spotlight

Next.js patched a critical security flaw (CVE-2025-29927). OpenAI’s 4o image generation enhances AI-powered visuals. Vue.js 2025 sees TypeScript & Pinia dominance. Plus, key updates in Bun, pnpm, Babel, and Babylon.js.

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ChatGPT Goes Ghibli, Google Gets Smarter, and Microsoft Embeds Knowledge at Scale

ChatGPT 4o’s image generation is going viral with the “Ghibli effect.” Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro leads in reasoning benchmarks. Microsoft’s KBLaM optimizes LLM knowledge retrieval with linear scaling. Tencent’s hybrid...

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NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk's Starship, Even Though It's Never Launched Without Exploding

NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster — despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone mission. According to a statement...

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We're listening to your feedback and updating the character count for posts on Bluesky. Posts can

We're listening to your feedback and updating the character count for posts on Bluesky. Posts can now be 299 characters long! https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-01-2025-april-fools

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Gemma 3 for Beginners: An Introduction to Google's Open-Source AI

Gemma 3 is a powerful open-source model designed to operate on a single GPU. It’s multilingual (140+ languages out of the box) and even multimodal, meaning it can understand images...

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Man Who Believes Poppers Cause AIDS Is Planning to Gut America's HIV Prevention Office

The nepo baby in charge of America's healthcare ascribes to homophobic conspiracy theories about the origins of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) — and he's purportedly planning to close the office...

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John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Bookshop). Number two: defend institutions. It is institutions...

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