Text Compression Gets Weirdly Efficient With LLMs: It used to be that memory and storage space were so precious and so limited of a resource that handling nontrivial amounts of text was a serious problem. Text compression …read more #hadtips https://t.co/Iz9KU1nzny https://t.co/6YDKDXF4CZ

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Turning Soviet Electronics into a Nixie Tube Clock: Sometimes you find something that looks really cool but doesn’t work, but that’s an opportunity to give it a new life. That was the case when [Davis DeWitt] got his …read more #hadtips https://t.co/WmAmqJsgIu https://t.co/b7xmClmR8z

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Going to Extremes to Block YouTube Ads: Many users of YouTube feel that the quality of the service has been decreasing in recent years — the platform offers up bizarre recommendations, fails to provide relevant search results, …read more #hadtips https://t.co/IYRhj64c1z https://t.co/FVrsBN5ExU

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Kitchen Steganography with Turmeric: It is a classic rite of passage for nerdy kids to write secret messages using lemon juice. If you somehow missed that, you can’t see the writing until you heat …read more #hadtips https://t.co/shEs7VEwXf https://t.co/CcejlMth6y

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