Naturally Occurring Equivariance in Neural Networks

This article is part of the Circuits thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles and critical commentary delving into the inner workings of neural networks. Curve Detectors High-Low Frequency Detectors Contents Convolutional neural networks contain a hidden world of symmetries within themselves. This symmetry is a powerful tool in understanding the features and circuits […]

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How to provide feedback on documents.

At Carta, we recently ran a reading group for Facilitating Software Architecture by Andrew Harmel-Law. We already loosely followed the ideas of an architectural advice process (from this 2021 article by the same Andrew Harmel-Law), but in practice we found that internal tech spec and architecture decision record (ADR) authors tended to exclusively share their […]

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The best fast chargers for 2025

These days, charging your gadgets shouldn’t feel like a chore — it’s about speed, efficiency and convenience. With so many devices supporting fast charging over USB-C, the right accessories can make a huge difference in keeping your gadgets juiced up without long wait times. That said, power bricks fall into a lot of different categories. […]

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Samsung Patches CVE-2025-4632 Used to Deploy Mirai Botnet via MagicINFO 9 Exploit

May 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware Samsung has released software updates to address a critical security flaw in MagicINFO 9 Server that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-4632 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a path traversal flaw. “Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability […]

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How to publish a HarmonyOS application?

1. Obtain Certificates To publish an app on the HarmonyOS AppGallery, you must apply for official certificates. (During personal development, you might often use auto-signing, but it is not accepted for app submission.) The certificates include p12, cer, csr, and p7b. Summary: Create a folder in advance to store the four certificates. Generate a p12 […]

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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it

Originally, Issues search was limited by a simple, flat structure of queries. But with advanced search syntax, you can now construct searches using logical AND/OR operators and nested parentheses, pinpointing the exact set of issues you care about. Building this feature presented significant challenges: ensuring backward compatibility with existing searches, maintaining performance under high query […]

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