In the 1990s, computers were magic and we were wizards. Want proof? I offer below, Larry Wall’s foreword to Learning Perl from 1993. It greatly inspired a very young me […]

Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

In this work, we discuss building performant Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In particular, we study the importance of various architecture components and data choices. Through careful...

A “poke” sent to the Voyager 1 probe received a response that could help NASA restore reliable communication with the aging spacecraft 15 billion miles away.

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A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing.

Django REST framework - Web APIs for Django

Searching Google Scholar for "certainly, here is" turns up a huge number of academic papers that include parts that were evidently written by ChatGPT - sections that start with "Certainly, …

Reverse Engineering: Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models - albertan017/LLM4Decompile

While looking for a job recently, I stumbled upon an interesting phenomen that I consider to be a curse for senior software engineers.

Gravitational collapse of SpongeBob

You can see how Virial equilibrium is eventually reached

how one little joke can get so, so out of hand

7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea.

Cloud software vendor HashiCorp is exploring options, including a sale, Bloomberg News reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter.

As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI

Big South Korean companies are exiting China one after another. Business uncertainties are being fueled by fiercer competition and declining profitability in t

SatCat5 is a mixed-media Ethernet switch that lets a variety of devices communicate on the same network. - the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5

An incredible first.