Unpredictability can help computer scientists solve otherwise intractable problems.

For more experienced functional programmers, most of this post will seem introductory, but I introduce some more advanced stuff near the end.


Functional Programming over Canadian Programming

Lately, I've been thinking about this Functional Programming…

The tech executive was a longtime member of the SF software development community.

A father imprisoned for his daughter’s anti-war drawing is just one case

William Edmisten

Study tries to settle a bitter disagreement over Google’s chip design AI

Harold Cohen (1928 – 2016) explored AI and art for nearly 50 years before we saw the rising popularity of these new machine learning tools. In those five decades, Cohen worked on a single program called Aaron that involved teaching a robot to create…

Homerow lets you navigate macOS with more keyboard and less mouse.

A potato-only diet is surprisingly effective at weight management. A writeup of my experience trying it for 2 weeks and discussion of the science.

This is a detective story about how a car was stolen - and how it uncovered an epidemic of high-tech car theft. It begins with a tweet. In April 2022, my friend Ian Tabor tweeted that vandals had been at his car, pulling apart the headlight and unplugging…

Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.

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Running live demos can be stressful. You know what you want to say and show. You prepare the CLI commands you want to run to best showcase what you...

The company faces a flood of lawsuits claiming its talc products caused cancer. The proposed settlement requires approval by a bankruptcy court, but has the backing of plaintiffs’ lawyers.

LiquidPiston says its new XTS-210 solves the efficiency, lubrication and fuel type issues of Wankel rotary engines. This supercharged, liquid-cooled two-stroke claims 5X the power of an equivalent size or weight diesel engine, and 3X the torque.

"Bobby worked harder than anyone and was the smartest person I have ever known. He will be missed by all those that knew him," Lee's father said on Facebook.

Using mmap() to load LLaMA faster in parallel with less memory.