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…

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…

Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models - Wan-Video/Wan2.2

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

Tracking AI is a cutting-edge application that unveils the political biases embedded in artificial intelligence systems. Explore and analyze the political leanings of AIs with our intuitive platform, designed to foster transparency in the world of artificial…

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was released and returned to Israel after being charged with luring a child for a sex act

The latest Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday update is causing SSDs and HDDs to reportedly break with chances of data corruption as well.

The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive…

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for. Derivatives Derivatives are the most fundamental concept in calculus. If you have a funct…

Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weather, a variety of factors are causing power bills to climb…