Computer science recap for week 50/2024

From 9/12/2024 to 15/12/2024

Articles #

• OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs 622 comments in 2 discussions

• Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era 563 comments in 2 discussions

• AI company that made robots for children went bust and now the robots are dying 264 comments in 2 discussions

• Tree Calculus 213 comments in 3 discussions

• AI Cheating Epidemic Threatens Fairness For Hardworking Students In Universities 187 comments in 3 discussions

• Common Misconceptions about Compilers 152 comments in 5 discussions

• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful? 131 comments in 1 discussion

• A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 121 comments in 2 discussions

• FP For The Working Programmer: Why Is null Bad? (2014) 112 comments in 2 discussions

• [D] The winner of the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award sabotaged the other teams 105 comments in 2 discussions

• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG 100 comments in 4 discussions

• TRELLIS: Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation 89 comments in 3 discussions

• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal 74 comments in 2 discussions

• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection 66 comments in 2 discussions

• AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware 60 comments in 2 discussions

Projects #

• A simple virtual computer to practice writing compilers 79 comments in 3 discussions

• [D] From Unemployment to Lisp: Running GPT-2 on a Teen's Deep Learning Compiler 23 comments in 3 discussions

• Gameboy background rendering incorrectly 9 comments in 1 discussion

• [Project] Matrix Recurrent States, a Attention Alternative 6 comments in 1 discussion

• I made a compiler that Directly generates x86-64 elf object file 6 comments in 2 discussions

• Tjald Hash and RNG Suite - A bid for new speed records 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Steel C: my own C dialect (WIP) 2 comments in 1 discussion

• [D] Pet project - Style Transfer Neural Networks Implementation

• Curated Corpus for U.S. Health Insurance Applications [P] [R]

Videos #

• How to build an exchange 10 comments in 1 discussion

• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Gemini 2.0 – Our most capable AI model yet [video]

• High Level Compiler Transformations: Brief History and Applications - David Padua - SC24 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award