My answer to "How is life in San Francisco?"

New models and new thresholds

Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...

Having spent a couple of decades in the Linux world, I have always had an interest in Linux desktop environments and how they are themed. I would often come across a post on /r/unixporn that inspired me to try to customize the look and feel of my desktop…

Randomly generated Turing machines draw images and animations on a 2D canvas. - maximecb/Turing-Drawings

YCT-529, a hormone-free male birth control pill, has shown high effectiveness in animals and is now in human trials, marking a breakthrough in male contraception. While the FDA has approved more than 20 types of contraceptives, only two options currently…

The tasks taken on by the Armatron aren’t so different from the ones AI is tackling today.

Implement recursion using English as the programming language and an LLM as the runtime. - andyk/recursive_llm

According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now both been proved wrong.

Bubble introduces a new way to build a web application. It’s a no-code point-and-click programming tool. Bubble hosts all applications on its cloud platform.

She throws art shows in her apartment. He does the same in a chicken coop. Upstart curators are creating ad-hoc exhibition space wherever they can, and as the cost of living climbs, the number of residential galleries may continue to grow.

As I was whining yesterday, it’s perplexingly difficult to find a (semi-)programmatic way of determining whether an author has written a new book. Or even manually in some cases. The best adv…

A trio of animal physiologists at the University of Tübingen, in Germany, has found that at least one species of crow has the ability to recognize geometric regularity. In their study published in the ...

Every transactional system must execute, order, validate, and persist transactions.

Quantizing large language models has become a standard way to reduce their memory and computational costs. Typically, existing methods focus on breaking down the problem into individual layer-wise...

The Cinema Industry is using its own standards for creating and distributing movies in a secure way. The DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) specification defines everything from file formats and encryption to the projection systems itself.