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In 2013 Google started work on TPUs and deployed them internally in 2015. Sundar first publicly announced their existence in 2016 at I/O, letting the world know that they’d developed custom ASICs for TensorFlow. They made TPUs accessible to outside devs via…

The strange and beautiful world of 1930s public health posters

I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

The RTX 50-series is officially here.

NVIDIA today unveiled the most advanced consumer GPUs for gamers, creators and developers — the GeForce RTX™ 50 Series Desktop and Laptop GPUs.

Widespread use of metal caused estimated 2- to 3-point drop in IQ for nearly 180 years of Pax Romana

At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a device it's calling a 'personal AI supercomputer.'

Dave Andersen's (new) blog

I wrote a (list of) regular expressions that will play a (not very good) chess game by running a 2-ply minimax search.

After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97% of the $68 billion frozen potato market. A new spate of antitrust lawsuits accuses them of brazen price-fixing.

The dialogue-free, Latvia-Belgium-France co-production beat out billion-dollar box office competition for the Golden Globes' top animation prize.

It’s the size of a desktop.

Gameto Announces World’s First Live Birth Using Fertilo Procedure that Matures Eggs Outside the Body

This article is my attempt to enumerate all the possible moats you can count on that will still be relevant in the age of AI

USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of…

Just say no to LM741 and LM324 / LM358.