Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders…

Macros, iterators, patterns, error handling and match make Rust almost perfect

A series of games made by NY Tech Guild members

FDA is proposing to end the use of oral phenylephrine for the temporary relief of nasal congestion because the agency determined it is not effective.

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

Building the right thing shouldn't take very long -- doing away with nonsense makes product development really fast"

Update: Discussion on Hacker News I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with the fairly recent LivePortrait model, generating deepfakes of my friends for some cheap laughs. The inevitable Elon Musk deepfake, picture by Debbie Rowe The emerging field of…

Satellite Tracking and Alignment Resource

Fine-tuning is a crucial paradigm for adapting pre-trained large language models to downstream tasks. Recently, methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) have been shown to effectively fine-tune...

By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni, co-authors A MIND AT PLAY: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age  “Do you mind if I hang you upside down by your legs?” From any other professor, this…

This is a blog post for my presentation at the conference POC2024. The slides are uploaded here.

Online roguelike with sci fi & space themes.

In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond  patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of pate…

Is the SSD soldered? - Mac mini (2024)

Nature - The collective-flow-assisted nuclear shape-imaging method images the nuclear global shape by colliding them at ultrarelativistic speeds and analysing the collective response of outgoing...