As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer.

Andy Campbell's 1985 Toyota Tercel has travelled the equivalent of 1.5 round trips to the moon.

How and why marimo represents notebooks as dataflow graphs

Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at…

Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer - menloresearch/jan

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: Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone

Dementias such as Alzheimer's disease are estimated to affect more than 57.4 million people worldwide, a number that is expected to almost triple to 152.8 million cases by 2050. The impacts on the

Objective

To assess the effect of intermittent fasting diets, with continuous energy restriction or unrestricted (ad-libitum) diets on intermediate cardiometabolic outcomes from randomised clinical trials.

Design

Systematic review and network meta-analysis.…

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I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t …

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Stanford University is withdrawing from a state financial aid program, as it decides to continue considering the legacy status of applicants for fall 2026 admissions.