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π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,849 posts.
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Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024)
High-degree polynomial features aren’t inherently unstable: the power basis and unscaled inputs are. This post shows how regularization and Bernstein polynomials make polynomial regression behave.
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I should have loved biology too
How I went from hating it to being obsessed, the allure of great writing, and a post-scuba-dive moment of clarity
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ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
ClickHouse learned to procrastinate strategically. Discover how lazy materialization skips unnecessary column reads to accelerate queries.
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Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
As programming languages researchers, we’re entitled to a certain level of mathematical rigor behind the languages we write and analyze. Programming languages have semantics , which are definitions of what statements in the language mean. We can use those semantics to do all sorts of useful things, like error…
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Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)
Personal blog and portfolio site
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The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
When I got my first job in technology journalism, my grandmother used to call the magazine where I worked “your catalog.” I winced. But in retrospect, she wasn’t that far off. Back then, if you wanted to buy a computer product—this was the early 1990s, before the web changed everything—the odds were pretty decent that…
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Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB…
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Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
How it took several months for me to get warm...
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The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping
Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.
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Cheating the Reaper in Go
Even though I am a C++ programmer at heart, Go fascinates me for none of the reasons you think. Go has made several interesting design decisions:
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An update to our pricing
Our pricing model is getting much simpler!
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A M.2 HDMI capture card
Have you ever looked at an NVMe drive and thought to yourself, 'Hey, this would be 31.7% cooler with HDMI ports?'
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Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.
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A new form of verification on Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
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LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
How LLM-powered programming tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replace them
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AI assisted search-based research works now
For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the …
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Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing
I've been exploring the m8 Dirtywave tracker for a few months now, and it's been a fascinating experience. If you're not familiar with it, the m8 is a portable music sequencer built on the Teensy platform that combines a minimal 8-button interface with a powerful tabular workflow. What makes it special isn't just its…
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Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.
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Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record
Record-high solar and wind bring the US to a clean power tipping point.
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Getting forked by Microsoft
Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this problem is to set up a stateful mirror, however we had to work…
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Python’s new t-strings
Dave Peck's home on the web. Dave is an independent software developer, investor, and civic technologist.
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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020. Through our analysis of public social media posts we determined that the campaign was not only…
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Decomposing Transactional Systems
Every transactional system must execute, order, validate, and persist transactions.
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How I use Kate editor
I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do.…
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How encryption for Cinema Movies works
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.
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The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...
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Signal Carnival
At Revision 2025, we released "Signal Carnival" ( csdb , YouTube ). This demo asks you to switch the audio and video cable of your C64:
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Things Zig comptime won't do
Es el disco de Odín. Tiene un solo lado. En la tierra no hay otra cosa que tenga un solo lado.