One in 18,000 people in the UK have Williams Syndrome, meaning they are empathetic and friendly, but can have learning disabilities and anxiety.

Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this post, it's mostly what I expected it to be, I've just added it to HIBP where I've called it "Data Troll", and I'm going to give everyone a lot more context below. Here goes:

Hyundai has decided to issue an "optional" £49 upgrade to Ioniq 5 customers to prevent the car from being stolen through a hacking device.

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Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions

Introduction Google has a long history of performing networking research, making changes, and pushing those changes to the entire internet. In 2011, they published one of my favorite papers, which described their decision to increase the TCP initial congestion…

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

How a 1935 Novel Predicted Trump's Authoritarian Playbook

Welcome to the life of Nick, 30. You and your girlfriend want to settle down and start a family. You need to save £100,000 for a house deposit within 5 years. Good luck.

Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.

I, like many people, find LinkedIn particularly annoying. I like the premise of it, don’t get me wrong, a resume you don’t need to update all that often seems cool. Unfortunately though, its turned into the worst possible version of itself. It’s a place where…

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Porffor can run on Lambda now!

In his new book, Dan Wang argues that America is too good at making rules, and could learn from Beijing’s laser focus on technical innovation.

JoyCaption, the open source image captioning model that I work on as a hobby, recently had its Beta One release, which was also the first release that used Reinforcement Learning (RL) to improve the model. RL has been a bit of a hot topic ever since the…

LLMs suck at comedy, art, journalism, research, and science for the same fundamental reason