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The user has been using local models since their release and has seen significant improvements in accuracy and speed, particularly with the Gemma 4 family, allowing for agentic coding and tasks like refactoring code and writing unit tests. The user is excited about the potential of local models but notes that they still have limitations, such as slow inference and small context windows, and ...
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Researchers at TNO, SURF, and NFI are building a Dutch language model, GPT-NL, with strong governance, transparency, and public values. This independent model strengthens the Netherlands' digital autonomy and provides a foundation for responsible AI applications.
Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, refused to license his characters for merchandise due to artistic integrity concerns. He fought a six-year battle with his syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, before they agreed to his terms.
To make a GET request in a minimal Docker container, use bash to open a TCP socket with /dev/tcp and write the request by hand. This method works for plaintext HTTP but not HTTPS, and is a bash feature not available in all shells.
A mechanical watch uses a spiral torsion spring to store energy, which is then released to power the watch's hands. The energy is controlled by gears and an escapement mechanism, ultimately regulated by a balance wheel oscillating at a precise rate.
The author built a custom static site generator from scratch, which is an example of yak shaving, a term coined by Carlin Vieri to describe doing a chain of related tasks that eventually lose their original purpose. Yak shaving can be fun but often leads to wasted time and resources.
Tim Ferriss shares his concerns about the impact of AI on the self-help and non-fiction book industry, citing a 57% drop in print sales of his own books since the launch of LLMs like ChatGPT. He believes that the trend will continue and that the industry will need to adapt by focusing on long-form content, personal connections, and unique experiences that AI cannot replicate.
Apple is changing Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases to @private.icloud.com, making it easier to ban them. This change may lead to services rejecting these emails, reducing their usefulness for iCloud+ users.
User upgraded home LAN to 10Gb/s using 10GBASE-T modules. A new Broadcom-based module replaced a Marvell-based one that overheated, resolving network issues.
The user has a custom NAS setup using Alpine Linux with a single initramfs containing the entire system. They've created a custom setup using alpine-make-rootfs to build a container image with a simple system configuration.
The author uses Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues to reduce motion sickness while working in a moving vehicle. This feature, introduced in 2024, uses dots on the screen that move in harmony with the car's motion.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is blaming the internet for societal problems and plans to ban teens from more internet services, threatening fines for non-compliance. His policy is seen as a desperate attempt to grab headlines and distract from his own policy failures, rather than addressing the real issues.
The game Slay the Spire 2 has a bug called correlated RNG (CRNG) that allows players to predict certain random events, such as the curse from Neow's Bones, the first fight's drop rate, and the Doll Room's outcome, due to unexpected correlations between different random number generators. The bug is caused by the C# implementation of the System.Random class, which makes the output linear in ...
Jane Street is now excited about formal methods after being skeptical due to high costs. They're building a team to make formal methods useful for software development.
Until I read Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler I did not realize how large a role Schuyler played in Auden’s life in the late 1940s. I knew that they were friends, and that Schuyler served occasionally as a typist and secretary for Auden. But he was for a few years a central part of Auden’s life. Schuyler, then in his early twenties, who had only recently ...
Meta's engineering culture has been drastically changed under new leadership, with engineers being reassigned to data labeling and AI training, and being tracked with invasive software. This has led to widespread dissatisfaction, a major security breach, and a significant outage, with many engineers seeking new jobs and questioning the priorities of CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The user's AI reflex-app builder generates massive Python code, but running reflex compile finds issues one at a time, increasing latency. To fix this, the user built a custom linter, but it was slow due to ast.walk, which they optimized by rewriting it in Rust and caching subclass information.
Geometric mode: flyback dark depth (disk holes cover N × holeTangFrac of revolution; remainder is dark). Random mode: per-frame discharge noise (Davidse 1969 §6.2) Spectral sensitivity of the flying-spot sensor: K/Na deep-UV (~410 nm peak), S-1 broad/flat (red-extended), S-4/5 blue-peaking. Zworykin & Wilson (1934) §3.2 ZnS:Ag phosphor screen persistence (Leverenz 1950) — physically ...
The Qwen-Robot Suite bridges the gap between vision and language understanding and physical control with three foundation models: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. These models enable an agentic system where general intelligence translates directly into physical action.
SubQ 1.1 Small is a new AI model that removes the constraint of attention compute, enabling direct reasoning over large artifacts. It achieves near-perfect long-context retrieval and reduces attention compute by up to 64.5x compared to dense attention.
Snap built SPECS, a wearable computer that uses augmented reality to help people engage with the world around them, rather than pulling them away. SPECS are designed to be natural, with a 51-degree field of view, 16 million colors, and a lightweight design, making computing useful in the moment.
Ollie Wagner, Apple's first emoji designer, shared his experience designing over 300 emojis in 2008. He worked from a SoftBank spreadsheet, applying Apple's visual language to hundreds of symbols, with Steve Jobs' final approval.
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The user created 25 generative art designs using Perlin flow fields in Processing, experimenting with various parameters and techniques to achieve unique results. The process helped the user understand how to practice creativity within self-imposed constraints.
cuTile Rust is a tile-based system for writing memory-safe GPU kernels in Rust, extending ownership discipline across the GPU launch boundary. It supports synchronous launches, asynchronous pipelines, and CUDA graph replay, with a macro for embedding kernel code in the host binary.
Curated reactive Haskell notebooks.
VoiceDraw turns your words into architecture diagrams. Speak or type what you want to build — the AI renders it in real time. This tour covers everything in under a minute.