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I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and…
Transformer language models are an emerging technology that is gaining increasingly broad real-world use, for example in systems like GPT-3 , LaMDA , Codex , Meena , Gopher , and similar models. However, as these models scale, their open-endedness and high capacity creates an increasing scope for unexpected and…
Crystal is a compiled programming langauge with static type-checking with syntax very similar to the Ruby programming language . Something that keeps Crystal feeling like a dynamically typed language is how a variable can be assigned to multiple types throughout the course of its lifetime, unlike most statically typed…
Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.
I stopped working on the reverse-engineered Apple Neural Engine (ANE) driver three years ago, upon a sad mini realization that the ANE block is just not that useful, and I could be doing more useful things, and moved onto upstreaming other, more useful, blocks. The ANE's architecture was too opinionated to build a…
The Millennium Prize Problems were unveiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) at a meeting in Paris in 2000 to celebrate “The Universality of Mathematical Thought”. These problems encapsulate some of the most difficult challenges that mathematicians were grappling with at the turn of the millennium. CMI’s…
Google is rolling out google.com/goto redirect URLs on SERPs. Here is what changed, why it targets scrapers, and how Autom updated its SERP scraping API.
Pandas has taken us a long way, but it's time for a new bear
Nico, Minitap’s CEO, shares what the team found in Google’s Artemis repository and why attribution matters for the open-source community.
Elite circles have their own cultural knowledge. So does the bottom 40%. Here's some of mine.
“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”
Technical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.
We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
Full stack developer, open sourceror, serial entrepreneur.
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
When OpenAI released their proof that solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time, they also released a formal proof in Lean 4.
Build durable cloud agents with a managed Codex harness.
New stories from the East German specialists behind this Cold War project
A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac's graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced. All the victim needs to do is click a link. This issue reproduces cross-browser on MacOS, but not other OSes.
AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there—but your competitive edge could learn a little something from web history
Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by compiling application code to native code in a training run, storing the native code in the AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. If the…
