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I Followed the Appeal Path. There Was No Appeal.

This is part four of the Defender Access series. Each part is standalone, but here is the thread if you are landing here cold: Part one — OpenAI says verified defenders get more access, so I…

  • Denied access with no appeal options
  • Support states verification has no retries
  • Different terminology used for program

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Building an investing knowledge graph, part 4: building the resolver

Building an investing knowledge graph, part 4: building the resolver Part 3 ended with a question I left open: how does the threshold actually get set, and what happens to the registry when new…

  • Resolver determines if candidate entity mentions refer to same underlying entity
  • Cost of wrong decisions includes incorrect inferences and partial answers
  • Splink library powers resolver with DuckDB backend and FastAPI service

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Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year

Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.

  • Lachy Groom invests $2.5M in Alteon for ocean wind-powered aircraft.
  • Alteon develops autonomous, small fixed-wing planes inspired by albatrosses.
  • Test flight completed 7 O-shaped cycles near ocean surface.

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NVIDIA Posts Linux Scheduler Patches To Further Boost SMT Performance On NVIDIA Vera

Hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today is a new kernel scheduler patch series to enable preferred SMT siblings for NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores...

  • NVIDIA releases Linux scheduler patches to boost SMT performance on NVIDIA Vera processors.
  • Patches make PE0 preferred sibling for Olympus cores using SDASYMPACKING SMT domain.
  • Tests show throughput increases from 9.4 TFLOP/s to 10.1 TFLOP/s with patches applied.

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Blast from the past

Today Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO and Phil Schiller is scaling back his involvement in the company’s events and his supervision of the App Store.…

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Osaka Metro Trials Humanoid Robot

Osaka Metro began testing an artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot at Umeda Station on August 31, using the machine to provide passengers with transfer directions and information on nearby…

  • Osaka Metro tests humanoid robot at Umeda Station on August 31
  • Google's Gemini AI assists passengers with directions and tourist info
  • Robot supports 60 languages, trial runs until September 6
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