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There has been much anticipation around AMD's flagship MI300X accelerator. With unmatched raw specs, the pressing question remains: Can it outperform NVIDIA's Hopper architecture in real-world AI workloads? We have some exciting early results to share. For the past month, TensorWave and MK1 have worked closely to…
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my public art making, so it’s been interesting to combine it with code. I’ve thought about trying
As we continue to focus our AI research and development on solving increasingly complex problems, one of the most significant and challenging shifts we’ve experienced is the sheer scale of co…
He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack to bring Google AI, innovations, and features faster to users.Over the last 13 years, we’ve evolve…
How a 10 year old design choice for Swift’s type checker still haunts us to this day
The importance and dynamics of private group chats in shaping tech discourse
Turn your chocolate into an edible color spectrum…
I discuss why Alexa missed the opportunity to take the lead and become the dominant player in the conversational AI market.
This post lays out a 4-part roadmap for the borrow checker that I call “the borrow checker within”. These changes are meant to help Rust become a better version of itself, enabling patterns of code which feel like they fit within Rust’s spirit , but run afoul of the letter of its law . I feel fairly comfortable with…
An analysis of the Croatian classic.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – In a head-to-head comparison of masks worn by people with active COVID-19, the inexpensive “duckbill” N95 came out on top, stopping 98% of COVID-19 particles in the breath of infected people from escaping into the air. Led by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health…
Elixir v1.17 released: set-theoretic data types, calendar durations, and Erlang/OTP 27 support.
An in-depth review of Microsoft's new Python in Excel functionality
Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE
In this post, we will look at how the security of the AES-GCM mode of operation can be completely compromised when a nonce is reused.
Caltech mourns the loss of Edward C. Stone, leader of humanity’s first foray into interstellar space.
Today, we are excited to triple down on our partnership with Mistral AI by co-leading their €600M Series B round.
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
A repost with some updates.
Providing security research and red team techniques
Announcing ARC Prize - a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
About a weird, lovely short story
This morning, I came accross Cameron Sun’s Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe on HN . However, the comments were disappointing, with people proposing probabilistic models, linear programming, minimax algorithms, and heuristic evaluations to develop AI approaches for the game, none of which quite correct. In this post, I’ll…
You can now set Firefox to automatically launch whenever you start or restart your Windows computer. Setting Firefox to auto-launch optimizes efficiency in our browser-centric digital routines, eliminating manual startup delays and facilitating immediate web access. ( Learn more )
Meet pgvectorscale, an open-source PostgreSQL extension that supercharges pgvector’s vector search performance for large-scale vector workloads.
