Shortly before the German parliament's summer recess, lawmakers approved a whole series of reforms. "These reforms are meant to get Germany back on track," said Chancellor Friedrich Merz optimistically. Toward the...
A study conducted by the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España earlier this year, however, paints a starkly different picture of readership in Spain. According to the study, the percentage of the overall Spanish...
If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a boilerplate-heavy library like Boost...
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) have created what they describe as the world's most detailed 3D cellular atlas of the human brainstem, linking whole-brain MRI views to individual neurons...
Who can punch themselves in the face with reality the most? This is who will win in the age of AI. I think there are two ways to use AI. You can just go off the deep end and start building a crazy amount of things...
Done is a claim about reality, not about effort. One of the most common traps that I see software developers falling into is considering something as done when it is clearly not done. If it only works on your machine,...
News 2026 Fields Medal Winners List Leaked, Includes Two Peking University Alumni The list of 2026 Fields Medal winners has been inadvertently leaked, revealing that Peking University alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng are...
Absolutely ripping your hair out reading Claude referring to everything as “honest takes” and "load-bearing seams"? You’re not the only one. But what if I tell you there’s a way to take this massive source of...
Previously: Kan Extensions in Double Categories. In programming, actegories play a central role in optics: lenses, prisms, traversals, etc. To understand actegories, let’s start with the definition of a monoidal...
People are quietly withdrawing from active participation in social media. While they may not be deleting accounts en masse, many are: posting less; limiting who sees their content; deleting stress-inducing apps; feeling...
Why is this an “app”? This summer, the kids’ performing arts school are singing and dancing in a show at Disneyland. We’re all very excited, but my excitement, at least, was muted a little when I was told to install the...
The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us: individuals, organizations, humanity as a...
Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years. They have also brought many controversies: age verification laws and what they mean for online anonymity,...
In the previous article we took apart the reflect package and found that its magic is mostly the compiler leaving very good notes â type descriptors frozen into read-only data at build time, and a package that knows...
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A case study of the B200 pipeline model A note on methodology: Everything in this article is based on my analysis of microbenchmarks executed directly on B200 silicon. Nvidia does not publish instruction latencies,...
Astronomers have detected erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries and self-tanners, in a gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way. While not essential for life itself, the molecule can convert into a form thought to...
The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry’s top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what’s next. Get your ticket. OpenAI’s ad business is on pace to fall short of the...
Back in December 2025, Sebastian Aaltonen published a blog titled “No Graphics API” - it presented a great history of the evolution of GPU hardware, and gave an opinionated perspective on how we could simplify the...
From 1 July 2026, energy retailers in NSW, South Australia, and South-East Queensland must give households at least three hours of free electricity every day. No solar panels required. No need to own your home. You just...
As my community modernized, we used Pennsylvania Dutch less and less. Now I’m trying to preserve it. JUNE 23, 2026 There are linguistic tics and habits that give away formerly Amish people immediately. I remember, for...
In our kitchen, the only device that displays the time is our oven!:D Looking at it was always a bit annoying. So I recently built a wall clock from a circular LCD screen! Itâs really great because it can display any...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Hundreds of economists say in an open letter that institutions " must act now" to address how artificial intelligence could transform the economy and could...
In a ground-breaking step forward, Scientists from Japan have developed a new method to recover up to 90 percent of lithium from used EV batteries – and it suddenly feels like great news on Earth Day. With electric...
CPU designs must evolve to keep up with changing workloads. Sometimes, that evolution involves extending the instruction set to efficiently represent certain types of work. Intel’s AMX extension is one such example. AMX...
The microstructural evolution of the alloy, heated for 32 hours (left) versus 64 hours (right). (Zhang et al., Science, 2026) Metal alloys are used everywhere from aircraft to cutlery, making them an indispensable part...
I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul last week titled “What will be left for us to work on?” I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI...
Now with exercises included! Introduction; PDF The wireless channel; PDF Point-to-point communication: detection, diversity and channel uncertainty; PDF Cellular systems: multiple access and interference management; PDF...
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A data dossier What did SFFA reveal about “merit” in college admissions? A domestic student at a given academic percentile has a far smaller chance of landing a seat at an elite university, and of paying for it, than an...
Everyone talks a lot about product market fit. It’s drilled into you as a founder. “Don’t build something people don’t want, don’t wait to ship your product, don’t isolate yourself building castles in the sky. Your...
Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze...
sx 2.0 is out: a native app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that lets anyone share AI skills with their team, no git and no terminal required. A few months ago I wrote that there’s an npm-shaped hole in the AI tooling...
One interesting trend in the AI startup segment this year is the rise to prominence of a specialized software engineering role called “Forward Deployed Engineer” (FDE.) One way to think about FDEs This role has even...
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During my bachelor's, I picked up Albert-László Barabási's Network Science book for a research project. The premise is elegant: protein interactions, power grids, social media feeds, financial markets, and many other...