How a bit of algorithm engineering and low-level details can alter what seems like a straightforward trade-off on a blackboard.

We benchmarked OpenAI gpt-image-1, Google nanoBanana, and Seedream across 600+ real-world photo edits, see latency, cost, and quality by task

A note I found in my journal, from seven years ago, on the day I was summoned to participate in a jury of my peers:


I have to go to jury duty as a member of this democracy. what if I had a summons to contribute to open source software becaus...

A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter. 

Optimizing compilers like to keep track of each IR instruction’s effects. An instruction’s effects vary wildly from having no effects at all, to writing a specific variable, to completely unknown (writing all state).

This summer, we launched a new research work that examined the costs yielded by a reborn and evolved species of the prescription drug supply chain: drug companies who are also part of larger vertically integrated pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) corporations.…

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Here she blows! Sunspot region 4274 produced its strongest solar flare thus far since it appeared on the east limb and the sixth strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle. An impressive long...

The personal website of James Belchamber.

“I recently made one of the hardest decisions of my life,” wrote former Cybertruck program manager Siddhant Awasthi in a LinkedIn post on Sunday.

Avalonia is bringing .NET MAUI to Linux and WebAssembly, delivering on the community's most requested features since MAUI launched.

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The AI boom might help QLC overtake TLC in the next two years.