AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi

There’s a saying that goes “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” But what happens when you trade your hammer for a…

Finding that, at 28, she didn’t seem to have the close tribe of confidants that other people in her life did, one writer decided to investigate why—by reaching out to four of her ex-best friends.

European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes…

Spoiler: not really
dafont.com is a wonderful website that contains a large collection of fonts. It’s more comprehensive and esoteric than Google Fonts. One of its features is a forum where users can ask for help identifying fonts – check out this poor fellow…

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD
We are thrilled to release Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen…

Through her India Street Lettering project, Pooja Saxena re-examines the craft and its clichés.

This post explains our recent effort to improve JSON.stringify performance

I have been exploring some new tools here and there. When I started watching Primeagen, I took a note of several tools that he was using and advocating for. One of them was tmux.
What is tmux?
tmux is a terminal multiplexer. What that means is you can have…

New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries.

A quiet revolution in care is helping patients with cardiac amyloidosis, a form of heart failure that long stumped doctors.

My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.