Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust

You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build.

(quick links: add to your own Slack; source code)

Motion sickness is an issue that affects up to one third of people. Is there a way we can strive to make gaming more accessible to people who suffer from the more severe forms of motion sickness?

Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.

Jujutsu (jj), a new version control system written in Rust, has popped up on my radar a few times over the past year. Looked interesting based on a cursory look, but being actually pretty satisfied with Git, and not having major problems with it, I haven’t…

A study found TikTok's algorithm recommended more Republican-aligned content during the 2024 US election. Republican accounts saw more like-minded content, while Democratic accounts were shown more opposing views. This suggests a pro-Republican skew.

AI and Corporate Interests Gutted an Artist's Oasis

Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941. One of them was Aleksandr Shchukin, a 58-year-old...

How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations.
Published the 31/01/2025
This post will focus on Android.
We all know decentralized applications: emails,…

A 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has been given full control over the computer code that directs Social Security payments, tax returns and other payments owed to Americans — and sources inside the Treasury Department are freaking out and don't know…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, while their practical applications are limited by severe factual hallucinations due to limitations in the timeliness,...

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A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

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These the words now forbidden in the Free Speech United States of Academic Freedom.....

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Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn't have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other…

As we saw in the opening post, SQLite stores metadata about tables in a special "schema table" starting on page 1. We've been reading records from this table to list the tables in the current database, but before we can start evaluating SQL queries a...