I decided to write an article about a thing that is second nature to embedded systems programmers – low level bit hacks. Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner. Instead of performing operations…

Price's model (named after the physicist Derek J. de Solla Price) is a mathematical model for the growth of citation networks. It was the first model which generalized the Simon model to be used for networks, especially for growing networks. Price's model…

Create ChatGPT-powered chatbots for WhatsApp with support for AI & human hybrid mode.

Continuing my avocation of writing to increasingly niche audiences, today we have a matter at the intersection of several small Venn bubbles:
the group of Emacs users who code in Emacs, who use Git (or version control) everywhere, who work using offshoot…

For scientific research to have an impact, its findings need to be communicated. Usually, such communications take the form of published papers in a journal. Given that most papers are rarely cited, yet consume a great deal of a scientist’s time, ...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and a Moscow-based affiliate organization of the Russian Main Intelligence…

2024 was mostly a dull year for cameras, except for DJI's Neo, which brought aerial photography in reach of nearly everyone.

DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-VL2

CISO Assistant is a one-stop-shop GRC platform for Risk Management, AppSec, Compliance & Audit, TPRM, BIA, Privacy, and Reporting. It supports 150+ global frameworks with automatic control ...

TL;DR: Get LLMs to do things from Emacs, with gptel and your help.
A short one today, without the usual flourishes. gptel is a large language model (LLM) client for Emacs. At its core is a wrapper around the HTTP APIs provided by all LLM providers, including…

Made a small handy air quality meter based around the MQ135 Air Quality sensor.

Apple, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms led the S&P 500 index in buybacks during the second quarter. Overall repurchases by companies in the benchmark index rose 8% from the same period a year ago.

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