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John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes)
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John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) on X
The full video of my Upper Bound 2025 talk about our research directions should be available at some point, but here are my slides:
https://t.co/KPM6NtSaug
And here are the notes I made while preparing, which are more extensive than what I had time to say:
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When good pseudorandom numbers go bad
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Notes from a data witch
When good pseudorandom numbers go bad – Notes from a data witch
Multivariate normal sampling can be wildly irreproducible if you’re not careful. Sometimes more than others. There are eldritch horrors, ill-conditioned matrices, and floating point nightmares in here. Teaching sand to do linear algebra was a mistake
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Sketchy Calendar
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Sketchy Calendar
Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and expressivity you get from pen & paper?
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CRDTs #2: Turtles All the Way Down
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Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured
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NY Times
A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret
Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created.
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Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine
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Modvion - We build wind turbine towers. In wood
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How we made our OCR code more accurate
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pieces.app
How we made our optical character recognition (OCR) code more accurate
Discover how Pieces enhanced its optical character recognition (OCR) engine to improve accuracy, speed, and real-world application for software developers.
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Lockheed Martin and IBM combine quantum computing with HPC in new research
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Lockheed Martin & IBM combine quantum computing with classical HPC in new research | IBM Quantum Computing Blog
Researchers conduct chemistry simulations with sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD), a prime candidate for near-term demonstrations of quantum advantage.
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OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level
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OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level
At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominen
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Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
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KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data
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kumo.ai
Introducing KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data
Foundation Models have completely taken over unstructured data domains like natural language and images, delivering significant advances in performance across tasks with little to no task-specific training. Yet structured and semi-structured relational data…
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3 Years of Remote Work
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A 2030 Morning Routine
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www.marginalia.nu
A 2030 morning routine
You wake at 05:30 in the morning, feeling somewhat groggy.
Instead of the alarm clock ringing like it normally does, a cheerful hologram appears: “Hi! I’m Kyle, your new alarm clock assistant!” You get dressed as Kyle explains all of the fantastic things…
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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre
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Word on Fire
Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
What I do know is this. I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as Alasdair MacIntyre.
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Satellites Spotting Depth
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Marksblogg
Satellites Spotting Depth
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch
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Slate Magazine
It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.
The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.
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A Formal Mathematical Investigation on the Validity of Kellogg's Glaze Claims
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Reddit
From the theydidthemath community on Reddit: [SELF] Kellogg's Mathematical Blunder
Explore this post and more from the theydidthemath community
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PostgreSQL IDE in VS Code
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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM
Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft | Microsoft Community Hub
We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL...
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Caesar's Last Breath
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Charlie Sabino
Caesar's Last Breath
How many molecules from Caesar’s last breath do we inhale with each breath we take? Shockingly, the answer is about one molecule—we actually share breaths w...
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Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)
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genstage_tutorial_2025/README.md at main · notactuallytreyanastasio/genstage_tutorial_2025
Contribute to notactuallytreyanastasio/genstage_tutorial_2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys
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Quanta Magazine
‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys
Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats.
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