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Friday, August 28, 202648 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

Mamba matches the Transformer with a state that never grows

Letting a linear-time recurrence change its parameters with each token is what finally closed the gap to attention on language, and the same fixed-size state that keeps it cheap is where it still falls short of what a growing cache can recall.

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Investing · Investing Course

A growing company books the profit before it collects the cash

Receivables and unsold inventory hold the cash a growing business has earned but not yet collected, and a company whose suppliers wait longer than its customers can flip the whole cycle in its favor.

9 min read7 sources
Technical Practice · Expert Tools

Moving a date from Spark to Snowflake takes two casts, and SQLGlot writes them

A no-dependency library for more than 30 SQL dialects, honest that its lenient parser will accept queries a real engine would reject.

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Current Affairs · Unbiased

The stay on Trump's mail-in voting order

The justices lifted one injunction on standing grounds without deciding the order's legality, and two other court orders still block it before a September hearing.

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Daily Reading · Current Events

The U.S. seizes two platforms China's state hackers ran against the Justice Department, NASA, and the Fed

The two platforms trace to a Nanjing firm whose named customers include China's Ministry of State Security and the People's Liberation Army, and the government dates the intrusions to at least 2018.

4 min read9 sources
Daily Reading · Tech News

AWS commits to two million more NVIDIA GPUs

The GPUs deploy across 2027 and 2028, with 100,000 reserved for U.S. government AI factories.

3 min read8 sources
Daily Reading · Word of the Day

Athens exiled its powerful men by scratching names on broken pottery

Once a year the Athenian assembly could send a man into exile for ten years with no accusation and no trial, and the verb ostracize is what that ballot left in the language.

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