In my regular research (behind a paywall), I have been saying for a while that I think the future of AI is not large language models (LLM), but small language models (SLM) run on local desktop computers or even mobile phones.

The argument says AI erased the junior engineer's marginal value. An intern who shipped a feature that had been waiting for years suggests otherwise.

Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?

We demonstrate the feasibility of PhotoScan, a deep learning approach estimating body composition from smartphone photos, to predict insulin resistance with accuracy comparable to DXA scans in a clinical research setting.

A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…

A quiet warehouse puzzle. Push every crate onto a brass plate.

We introduce DiffusionGemma, an experimental open-weight language model that uses discrete diffusion to generate text at exceptionally high speed. Rather than decoding one token at a time,...

What you need to be a great vibe coder.

The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware. I’ve had one sitting in the back of a drawer for a...

In February 2024, I defended my second dissertation and earned the highest academic degree Russia awards. By June, I knew I wanted out. Out of this kind of r...

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

They bought a router. We bought a Wouter.

This post presents a controlled prompt-ablation study: 23 tasks, three prompt conditions, 1,518 individually audited traces, and a simple question: can you prompt away cheating?

Richard Haldenby says his average monthly bill for Harvest had risen from $130 (£95.50) to $2,110.

Can we find small elliptic curves of high rank? A leaderboard of certified Mordell–Weil rank lower bounds, ordered by naive height, Faltings height, and conductor.

AI coding is now a team sport. Introducing Slack Code, where teams and AI agents write, review, and ship code together in the open in a dedicated code channel.

Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an…

Dutch security agency accuses Israel of attempting to influence politics, public opinion through disinformation.

Risk engineering and safety management course materials and educational resources, all open access.

Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM. Save your tokens, Claude 5 is hopeless - zachahn/vomit

Embedded agents your customers use to automate work, build views, and connect their tools. - runvendo/vendo