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Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:44PM (#49469387)
If someone has an old GPU laying around, say a GTX 1080 with 8 GB of memory, would that be enough to get a (small?) local model running?
The software that won the competition seems to map the configuration space of an origami crease pattern using techniques from statistical mechanics - pretty snazzy!

More technical details here: https://isef.net/project/phys021-mcmc-sampling-of-origami-an...

Re:Fundamental Theorem of Calculus on Thursday April 23, 2026 @11:27AM (#47876903)
Does it usually get taught in the undergrad maths curriculum?
Re:Fundamental Theorem of Calculus on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:36AM (#47874114)
Seems like Katex from the scripts getting loaded. I love the design too, kinda medieval-chic.
Re:Fundamental Theorem of Calculus on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:34AM (#47874104)
Today I learned there's a CSS property for styling the first letter of a paragraph, neat. (https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/i/initial-letter/)

--edit: The font used for those initials is called Goudy Initialen: https://www.dafont.com/goudy-initialen.font

Re:Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:35PM (#47547212)
Thank you!
Re:Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:03PM (#47546875)
Is there a notification channel you can subscribe to / look at if you want to stay up to date on compromised PyPI packages?
That's a great find. My personal favourite so far from Dust is "Laboratory Conditions": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N25e4Ss34Q
Re:The “small web” is bigger than you might think on Monday March 16, 2026 @03:51PM (#47403942)
That's a lovely bit of automation.