Serrodes campana (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is an economically important moth distributed in subtropical and tropical Asia, but genomic resources for this species have been lacking. Here, we present a chromosome-level reference genome assembly for S. campana generated using PacBio HiFi long reads, Illumina short reads, Hi-C sequencing, and transcriptomic data from 12 RNA-seq samples. The final assembly spans 627.9 Mb, with a contig N50 of 21.4 Mb and a scaffold N50 of 21.6 Mb, and 99.29% of the... Read more ›
GPT-2-style LLM built from scratch in C/CUDA with hand-written backprop, BPE tokenizer, FlashAttention, pretraining, and SFT. - JustVugg/nanoeuler Read more ›
A security researcher has added another dimension to smart lightbulbs by stealthily adding what they call a 'cyberpunk digital dead drop' full of 'banned books.' Read more ›
Scott Ritter livre une analyse de l'effondrement du contrôle des armements et de la dérive militariste européenne, qu'il assimile à un animal devenu incontrôlable et qu'il faudrait traiter comme tel. The post first appeared on . Read more ›
A couple of people contacted me with feedback about the SIMD implementation we used to find newlines in the billion-row file. One suggested a possible bug (shock!) and one suggested a way that might be more efficient. We'll take a look at both, obviously starting by writing a test that checks for the bug. After the stream I made another attempt at using the information about all newlines in a 64-byte chunk, instead of just the first one. I did it with no Vecs at all, unifying the two function... Read more ›
Log-structured merge (LSM) trees attach an approximate-membership filter to every run and must split a fixed memory budget across them. The static optimum is known (Monkey); a large systems literature then makes the allocation adaptive, tracking shifting hotness online. We ask a prior question: when is that adaptivity worth its machinery? We give three analytical answers and validate them on synthetic sweeps, real Twitter production cache traces... Read more ›
Traditionally made Sichuan mapo tofu usually calls for ground beef and silken tofu bathed in a vibrant, tingly sauce. Bowen Yang, a comedian and podcaster, shared this version made by his mother, which opts instead for pork and firm tofu in a slightly drier mixture. Read more ›
Independent publisher Vetro Editions releases Pixel Rugs, the first full monograph by Rhode Island-based artist Travess Smalley, printed in fluorescent Quadrifluox inks that glow under UV light, with essays by Casey Reas and Anika Meier situating the work within generative art history. Travess Smalley’s studio is, by his own description,… Read more ›
The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations... Read more ›
In 2021, The New York Times ran a story titled "This Book Is Not About Baseball. But Baseball Teams Swear by It." The book was Thinking, Fast and Slow by Dan... Read more ›
A (short) post from my blog. Read to gain insights. Or don't. Read more ›
Just a short blog post to say that I have set up a Git Server and will be using it. This is convenient as it will mean I can begin to step away from using GitHub. That's not because I have issues with GitHub, it's wonderfully useful for the vast majority of people. It's more that I would rather my Git Repositories be decentralised, especially the repositories I consider important. Read more ›
At long last, cyberpunks, adventurers -- Neofeud 2 is now released! Read more ›
submitted by Goes through model picks by RAM (what’s actually usable at 8/16/32/64GB+), GPU offloading, and a troubleshooting section for the stuff that actually trips people up — port conflicts, CUDA OOM errors, Ollama not showing up in PATH, that kind of thing. It’s a paid guide, $10, Happy to answer questions in the comments tell me your RAM/GPU and I’ll line out what to run, *I’m not an expert and I’m sure there’s other people on here that another stuff a lot better than me but I’m happy ... Read more ›
Gibbosula rochechouartii is a vulnerable freshwater mussel species endemic to China, with severely degraded habitats. To date, there is no high-quality genome available for this species. In this study, we integrated PacBio HiFi, Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), and Hi-C approaches to generate the first telomere-to-telomere genome assembly for this species. The completed genome spans 2.99 Gb with 93.41% completeness, anchored to 19 chromosomes. Comparative genomic analyses indicate that amo... Read more ›
Le Monténégro a conclu un partenariat économique stratégique avec la France. Ce mécanisme, déjà établi avec la Chine et les Émirats arabes unis, permet d'accorder des marchés publics avec des entreprises françaises sans procédure d'appel d'offres. On évoque une coopération à un milliard d'euros. - Articles / Monténégro, Relations internationales, Economie, Questions européennes, Monitor (Monténégro) Read more ›
Custard-soft silken tofu becomes a weeknight stunner when smothered in a quick homemade chile crisp, creating an irresistible interplay of disparate textures. Toasted peanuts add crunch, while the unexpected addition of panko creates delicate crispness in every bite. Read more ›
A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories... Read more ›
The highest-leverage Claude skill most founders skip. It assumes your plan failed, finds the hidden assumption that kills it, and rewrites it before you commit. Read more ›