The author has been testing Qwen 3.8 27B, a large language model from Alibaba's research lab, on various machines and found it to be highly capable but slow due to its dense architecture requiring significant memory bandwidth.
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The author criticizes Dmitry Grinberg's article on RISC-V, arguing that his criticism of the architecture is biased and misses the point. The author claims that RISC-V's openness and low cost make it accessible to developers in developing countries, allowing them to create their own projects without relying on expensive tools or licenses.
AGI-64 is a free AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64, aiming to support most era games. It's currently around 75% complete and playable on Space Quest 1, with features like save/load and custom background pre-processing.
The Racket team is adding annot and annot.def to define annotations without macro code, as well as a binding form for more readable naming.
Claude's web interface and mobile apps use a system prompt to provide information, including the current date, at the start of conversations. The prompt is updated periodically to improve Claude's responses, but not for the Claude API.
Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building decentralized, sovereign networks without control or censorship. It enables secure digital communication and end-to-end connectivity with self-sovereign addresses that can be moved freely within the network.
The ceramic water filter, developed in 1981 by Dr. Fernando Mazariegos, uses clay and combustible materials to remove pathogens and contaminants from water, with colloidal silver added for antibacterial properties. The filter can be produced locally using a hydraulic press and finishing process, requiring training and equipment to manufacture at scale.
Amit Patel created the BBS door game Solar Realms Elite in 1990 and has worked on various programming projects, including scientific equipment, data analysis, and artificial intelligence. He is now working on interactive reference materials for game developers.
Intel's MMX technology was introduced in 1997, allowing for single instruction, multiple data processing on x86 CPUs. It enabled significant speedups in multimedia software and paved the way for modern SIMD architectures like AVX-512 and GPUs with thousands of cores.
Buf releases the Buf LSP server, providing modern IDE support for Protobuf development. The new implementation is faster and more flexible than protoc, enabling incremental compilation and better diagnostics.
The user created a simulation of animal swarms using Mathematica, injecting randomness to create a "dance" pattern. The system follows simple rules: move towards friends and away from enemies, with contraction to prevent dispersal.
Token brokers buy unused credits from startups and resell them, offering discounts to attract buyers. This market is growing rapidly, with tens of millions of credits being offered across various sites and forums.
MathCode is a terminal AI coding assistant that converts plain language math problems into Lean 4 theorems and attempts formal proofs. It features various tools for efficient proof-solving, including a persistent Lean REPL and theorem libraries.
Researchers received surprise termination notices for federal grant funding after projects were deemed to express viewpoints disfavored by the Trump administration. The terminations targeted diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, green energy, and other subjects at odds with conservative opposition.
CL-Amiga, a Common Lisp implementation for the Amiga family, is built to run on m68k and PPC architectures. It has a self-contained bytecode VM with no external runtime dependencies and supports various features like object system, condition system, macros, and interactive development style.
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A favorite professor taught Anton Chekhov's short stories as models of writerly virtues, emphasizing his life and work. Chekhov's personal life was marked by a mix of romantic relationships, including with actress Olga Knipper, whom he married at 41 and died from tuberculosis at 44.
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The Sun Queen | Article A look at the scientist’s breakthrough innovations, from the world’s first solar-heated home to an electricity-free Easy Bake Oven Scientist Mária Telkes spent her life chasing the sun. Telkes, who was born in Hungary in 1900, first became interested in solar energy while studying at the University of Budapest. After receiving her doctorate in physical chemistry in ...
Researchers have developed a new method for recursive self-improving AI agents to continue improving themselves without hitting an evaluation ceiling. This approach allows the agent and evaluator to evolve together, creating a self-improving loop that can lead to more capable and efficient AI systems.
The user is exploring zero-knowledge proofs, specifically the 3-coloring problem in graph theory, and implementing a Python code to demonstrate how it works. They discuss its potential applications beyond cryptography.
You recently switched to Cloudflare's nameservers, which silently added a JS analytics snippet to your site. This approach is invasive and should opt-in instead of opt-out for users' consent.
Large language models are getting smarter per parameter, but this comes at the cost of factual knowledge, which is often outdated and prone to hallucination. By decoupling reasoning from knowledge, frontier models can provide high-quality answers without relying on stale facts.
Prolly publishes the prolly Rust library crate. Users depend on the package as prolly-map, while code imports stay concise: use prolly::{Config, Prolly};. The crate provides content-addressed prolly tree storage primitives: an immutable, ordered key-value index over byte keys and byte values, with stable content-derived structure for efficient structural sharing, diff, merge, and bulk ...
UTL comes from FastLanes, and is designed to make delta decoding very data-parallel. However the paper explains the layout in a way I find confusing, so I’m going to try my own explanation here. I’m going to assume that you know what delta encoding is, as well as the basics of SIMD computing. Basic delta encoding/decoding is a fundamentally sequential problem, because computing each value ...
The author, a hobbyist, has developed software for Casio Pocket Computer calculators and created a Bulletin Board Service (BBS) hosted on one of the devices. The BBS allows users to connect via telnet and log amateur radio contacts using the calculator's programming capabilities.