Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language.

I recently acquired an ESP32-C3-DevKitC-02 module, and, as I tend to do, jumped right into reading about how the system boots and how the (pretty good!) tooling Espressif offers works. We have typically used QEMU in the RISC-V Bytes series, but getting our…

The ST40, a compact high-field spherical tokamak, has achieved ion temperatures more than 5 keV—a feat not attained previously.

Street fighters and Martial artists.

This is a baby GPT with two tokens 0/1 and context length of 3, viewing it as a finite state markov chain. It was trained on the sequence "111101111011110" for 50 iterations. The parameters and the architecture of the Transformer modifies the probabilities…

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We propose an algorithm for automatic instruction generation and selection for large language models with human level performance.

People don't usually share what a research grant pays for, so here are the budgets from mine.

After a student protest, Jenny S. Martinez wrote a much-praised memo defending academic freedom. But that protest shows how complicated protecting free speech can be.

Many laid-off tech workers from the likes of Meta, Amazon and Salesforce are landing in roles with smaller companies—and prizing job stability over prestige.

In addition to $100k given to LockBit

Back in spring 2020, I was wrapping up the distributed systems course I was teaching, and for the last lecture, decided to spend a little time poking at the question of who actually invented vector clocks. Most people who need something to cite for vector…

David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.

Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.

Dmitry.GR: Driving a poorly-designed display and touch board using no CPU at all

Much of Florida’s Kissimmee River has been restored to its natural state, a milestone worth celebrating—and learning from.