The author discusses the limitations of Signal, a popular messaging app, and compares it to other federated systems like Matrix. Despite its strong cryptography and open-source nature, Signal struggles with quirks and bugs that hinder user experience.
The author is concerned about the security risks of using large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI and Anthropic, as they may be stealing personal insights from users. To protect their ideas, the author suggests moving to self-hosted LLMs with smaller context windows.
This book offers a deep dive into foundation model engineering, connecting historical evolution, mathematical concepts, and systems constraints. It's designed for AI engineers and researchers seeking to understand architecture, training pipelines, inference systems, and alignment beyond surface-level API usage.
The construction industry has historically struggled with automation, but recent advancements in AI technology are changing this. Successful automation falls into two categories: off-site factory tasks and on-site tasks that can be made factory-like, such as concrete or asphalt work.
Most EBP data is updated daily, but some portals submit data at longer intervals, causing blank areas in recent weeks. Incomplete weeks may not be fully reflected until the next update cycle.
The three-body problem has thousands of periodic orbits, each with its own page on a map. These orbits can be rated and ranked in battles, forming families or constellations that display their unique characteristics.
The Frank-386 emulator is designed for RP Pico 2 boards with VGA/HDMI output, SD card storage, and keyboard input. It emulates an i386 PC with peripherals like the 8259 PIC and sound devices.
Researchers discovered that Britain's Devil's Arrows were built from stones hauled 18 kilometers from Brimham Rocks around 4,000 years ago. The stones' distant source was likely chosen for cultural or spiritual reasons, challenging previous ideas about prehistoric monument construction.
Thirty SVG drawing prompts in the style of Simon Willison's pelican-riding-a-bicycle test, given to language models in 2025 and 2026.
The website is protected by Anubis, a Proof-of-Work scheme that makes scraping more expensive for large-scale AI companies. This placeholder solution aims to prevent legitimate users from being affected while allowing time to develop better fingerprinting methods.
A well-written design doc can save years of development time by forcing important decisions and coordinating among teammates. It articulates the hard problems being solved, provides feedback opportunities, and outlines a clear plan for implementation.
People are fighting back against AI-powered cameras by creating "adversarial fashion" to evade surveillance, using clothing with patterns that confuse facial recognition systems. This trend aims to raise awareness about privacy concerns and take control of one's identity in a digital world.
Apple's new iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate release introduces a deeper integration of third-party AI models with Siri, allowing for more advanced capabilities. This move is seen as a response to the EU's Digital Markets Act, which requires Apple to give third parties effective access to its hardware and software features.
The author shares insights from the Unconf on debugging and benchmarking async applications, focusing on Tokio runtime. They discuss balancing fairness and batching, contention and isolation to achieve optimal performance.
This user created a custom macOS menu bar with swipe gestures for desktop switching, music control, and volume/brightness adjustment. They built it using Swift and Astra's neural band technology, compatible with macOS 14+ and Apple Silicon/Intel devices.
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The author worked on Nanite Tessellation, a system for dynamically tessellating and displacing meshes, in addition to the existing Nanite feature. This new system aims to provide a general-purpose solution for virtualized geometry problems.
The Richat Structure, or Guelb er Richât (Arabic: قلب الريشات, Qalb ar-Rīšāt, [galb er.riːʃaːt] ), often called the Eye of Africa[2][3] is a prominent circular geological feature at the northwestern edge of the Taoudeni Basin, on the Adrar Plateau of the Sahara. It is located near Ouadane in the Adrar Region of Mauritania. In Hassaniya Arabic, rīšāt means feathers and it is also known locally ...
Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.
Download precise dimensional drawings and technical specifications for Apple devices to ensure your accessory designs meet the exact requirements.
This repository provides hand-written PyTorch implementations of modern open-source LLM architectures from scratch. It aims to clarify and learn the architectural choices behind these models, prioritizing readability over performance.
Claude Fable 5.1 solved Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich, a centuries-old cryptogram, using a simple rule based on the book itself and its accompanying poem. The solution was surprisingly straightforward in hindsight, demonstrating that models can solve historical mysteries with persistence and creative analysis.
sdr-- is a software-defined radio application with a visual signal path, allowing users to connect devices and recorders on a canvas. It runs on both desktop and browser interfaces, handling radio signals and processing through a Rust server.
A vast mosaic and fresco discovered beneath the Baths of Trajan in Rome have opened to the public for the first time. The ancient artworks, dating back to the 1st century, feature impressive cityscapes and architectural structures.
The author believes JPEG XL is not suitable for the web due to its complexity, lack of support for progressive decoding and deblocking loop filtering, and potential performance issues. The author thinks AVIF is a better fit for the web platform.
The author created an application to arrange 3D meshes in a scene to render a target silhouette from a specific camera angle, using gradient descent optimization. The loss function combines metrics such as Intersection over Union, spill, outline and collision penalties.
Two high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, solved a problem left open by Fields Medalist June Huh on bounded ratios of Lorentzian polynomials with AI assistance. They published a 75-page paper on arXiv.
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, is on paid leave after the board voted to remove him. He claims to be back in control and has been posting on company Slack despite being officially removed.
Working with double categories can be aptly summarized in a meme: Talk to me about sets without mentioning sets. We don’t talk about hom-sets, we talk about horizontal units. Secretly, we are visualizing horizontal arrows as profunctors, and the unit of profunctor composition is a hom-functor. Presheaves are defined as -valued functors, so we immediately run into a problem when trying to ...