DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning models use chain-of-thought reasoning to analyze complex prompts in detail. Instead of producing immediate replies, they spend time generating a “thinking” sequence, which often involves processing hundreds or thousands of…

Some time ago, I wrote a blog post about how there’s more to a pointer than meets the eye. One key point I was trying to make is that just because two pointers point to the same address...

US bank, world’s biggest bullion dealer, says it will deliver raw material against contracts that will expire in February

Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

TLDR; I really wish these tools gain more traction:

Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

The new defendants added into the legal filing included Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International.

Metal 3D printing is currently dominated by powder-based techniques like SLM (Selective Laser Melting). These processes yield incredibly precise parts, but the build times are slow. Furthermore, dealing with the powder increases manufacturing complexity:…

Americans don’t know the full extent of what Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government.

Contribute to mattsroufe/esp32_rc_cars development by creating an account on GitHub.

Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.

A Rust procedural language handler for PostgreSQL. Contribute to tcdi/plrust development by creating an account on GitHub.

The other day, while wasting time reading reddit, I stumbled upon a blogpost mentioning S3 FIFO, a method claiming to outperform LRU (Least Recently Used) in terms of cache miss ratio. Notable companies like RedPandas, Rising Wave, and Cloudflare have already…

As seen on Hackaday! TL;DR – The SanDisk High Endurance cards use SanDisk/Toshiba 3D TLC Flash. It took way, way more work than it should have to figure this out (thanks for nothing, SanDisk!…

Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows). - trycua/cua

Left & Mutual Recursion Mitigation

My friend Andrew is an advocate of the “spaced repetition” technique for memorization of a great many facts [1]. The ideas behind this are two-fold: When one first “learns” a new fact, it needs to be reviewed frequently in order to not forget it. However…

Experts say the discovery will help them understand what animals were eating during the Cretaceous period.