Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal. 

Either we get a vaccine good enough that R0 for the...

Nature - Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals tal…

It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…

We should cease teaching frequentist statistics to undergraduates and switch to Bayes. Doing so will reduce the amount of confusion and over-certainty rife among users of statistics.

The United States was born of a desire to leave behind monarchial government and instead live under a republic. Although the structure of the United States was explicitly crafted to have both …

Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.

Should I host my blog on here?

The chip giant has created DGX Cloud Lepton, a new service that will make its AI chips directly available to developers across a variety of cloud platforms.

Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.

The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, and another man abused their victim for three weeks in a Manhattan townhouse as they tried to get his Bitcoin password, prosecutors say.

The WinRAR Approach: a small change in how I distribute content to keep the content free, sustainable, & ad-free.

Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …

Experience converting a multi-threaded C++ application to run faster on GPU. How to interpret NSight Compute recommendations to improve an algorithm on GPU.

Imagine slipping on a pair of contact lenses and suddenly being able to see infrared light—without any bulky equipment or even a battery. That’s now a reality thanks to breakthrough lenses developed by scientists that convert invisible infrared into visible…

An LLM should never output anything but tool calls and their arguments. The tools hold the specific, instantiated state of what the model is doing and its goals, while the model itself holds only the information it requires for its immediate task and some…