Meta, Google and the companies they’ve inspired are ridiculously large. That’s bad.

Blog about vintage computers and homebrewing computers.

An ideology built on message boards is now struggling in the boardroom.

The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization, is the effect it will have on employment.

Call Stacking captures everything for a given request - each method call, param/argument/return value, class name/method/line of execution. You can visibly see which method called which, as each method call is nested relative to its parent callee. Turn it…

Nature - Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.

Videoconferencing exhaustion has now been neurologically proven

A little essay on the amusement or horror that may bring to learn that both test and [ are binaries on your typical Unix system, and that [[ is subject to completely different rules.

As army ants travel over uneven terrain, they link their bodies together to create bridges — a system that might give engineers insight into controlling robotic swarms.

A lesson on how not to behave as a "non-profit."

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, sources say researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning about Q star, a powerful artificial intelligence discovery.

As Lisa Simpson once memorably remarked, “I can see the music.” Pretty much anyone can these days. Just switch on your device's audio visualizer. That wasn’t the case in the 1940s, when psychologist Cecil A.

Google introduced the Tensor series of chips with the Pixel 6 series in 2021. It was meant to usher in a range of chips specially tailored by Google to keep up with its class-leading AI-based software features. Just three Tensor chips in, and many of Google’s…

CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the…

This is a 1 hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models: the core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What they are, where they are headed, comparisons and analogies to present-day operating systems, and some…