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Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?
... and why signed distance functions are cool!
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An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)
Through a couple of different avenues I wandered, yet again, down a rabbit hole leading to the topic of this post. The first avenue was through my main focus on a particular machine learning topic th
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Four Years of Jai (2024)
I’ve been programming for long enough to be righteously cantankerous about a lot of things. The list of languages, frameworks and libraries I’ve worked with professionally or on personal projects is too long to list – but it includes everything from C and assembly languages through C++, Pascal and Delphi, through Java…
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AI as Normal Technology
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology . To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the…
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Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer
Designing a cheap two-port vector network analyzer with good measurement accuracy.
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What the hell is a target triple?
Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compiling it for a machine that isn’t the one hosting the compilation. Although historically compilers would only compile for the host machine, this is considered an anachronism: all serious native compilers are now cross-compilers.
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I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
Every week, I tell myself I won’t do yet another post about the asteroid striking American academia, and then every week events force my hand otherwise. No one on earth—certainly no one who reads t…
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The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call
I did tell you not to do that.
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It's easier than ever to de-censor videos
Last month I asked people to hack part of my YouTube video, specifically to de-pixelate the contents of a folder I had pixelated starting at the 4:57 mark. Your browser does not support the video tag. For years, people have used the censor tool to blur or pixelate out parts of videos where there's sensitive…
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Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
You can now generate videos in Gemini, powered by Veo 2.
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JSX over the Wire
Turning your API inside-out.
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TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days
The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.
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How to win an argument with a toddler
You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat e…
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Hacking the Postgres wire protocol
Inside PgDog's wire protocol handling: parsing simple and extended messages, using pg_query for AST inspection, and routing queries via the Postgres hash partition function.
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You cannot have our user's data
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”. These tariffs will not work. In fact, they may even do the opp
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How the U.S. became a science superpower
Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happ…
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
The history of Vi & Vim goes hand in hand with the history of open-source software. This article looks at the historical events that shaped the evolution of these text editors.
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Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
How I reverse engineered an ESP32-based smart home device to gain remote control access and integrate it with Home Assistant.
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The problem with "vibe coding"
An article from dylanbeattie.net
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The most famous carbon dioxide absorber
The Apollo 13 astronauts were stranded in space. Their survival depended on if they could make a carbon dioxide absorber inside the spacecraft.
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The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing
A misconfiguration that might have cost us $7,000
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Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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What Is Entropy?
People say many things about entropy: entropy increases with time, entropy is disorder, entropy increases with energy, entropy determines the arrow of time, etc.. But I have no idea what entropy is, and from what I find, neither do most other people. This is the introduction I wish I had when first told about entropy…
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Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop
Learn how to create & manage and use Quadlets with Podman Desktop
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CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks
In the two and a half years that we’ve been talking about prompt injection attacks I’ve seen alarmingly little progress towards a robust solution. The new paper Defeating Prompt Injections …
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GPT-4.1 in the API
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API—a new family of models with across-the-board improvements, including major gains in coding, instruction following, and long-context understanding. We’re also releasing our first nano model. Available to developers worldwide starting today.
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OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up and vote for Better