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Composition shouldn't be this hard
Fragmented systems are brittle. Coherent systems are special-purpose. We need a new, general-purpose model so we can build coherent, multi-domain applications.
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I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task
I've been testing a simple prompt with different model and harness combinations to work out which one produces best results. I do this in /goal mode.
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Ok, but does it scale?
This is probably the question I get asked most about Spacetime. It’s a simple enough question, and it certainly seems like it should have a simple answer. Scaling is a complex topic, and the devil is…
5074
Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models
After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, and me…
5075
Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)
Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)
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Stroustrup's Rule (2024)
Beginners need explicit syntax, experts want terse syntax.
5077
Engineering for Bounded Cognition
The mind that builds software is far smaller than the software it builds, and almost everything good in engineering is a way of living with that gap.
5078
Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)
101 interactive pandas exercises with solutions. Edit and run every code block directly in your browser — no installation needed.
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Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar
In 2006, CHM curators traveled to Germany to follow a lead on an abandoned collection of historical computing artifacts. In a three-story warehouse, they found a real-world timeline of computing history. After days of exploring and assessing, they brought back nearly 2,000 items for the permanent collection.
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The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
I’ve recently been working on a mechatronics project that involves constructing an X-Y cartesian motion system. I opted to use stepper motors to drive each axis, and timing belts and pulleys for translating the rotational torque of the steppers into linear motion. The timing belts need to be anchored to the component…
5081
Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia
use WASD + Mouse or tap on the screen to walk around :) Amulet of St. Michael in Kyiv, Ukraine (reconstructed with GaussianSplatting.jl, ~6M Gaussians)
5082
Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
After the ACE BASIC posts of the last months, this one is about a different project I have been working on for the last half year: CL-Amiga , or Clamiga for short. It is a Common Lisp implementation built for the Amiga family -- classic AmigaOS 3 on 68k and MorphOS as a fully native PPC build, AROS and AmigaOS 4 maybe…
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Building voice agents with Nvidia open models
Build an ultra-low-latency voice agent with NVIDIA open models. Learn how Nemotron Speech ASR achieves sub-25ms transcription, how Nemotron 3 Nano LLM and Magpie TTS work together, and how to optimize architecture for real-time voice AI deployment.
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Bipartite Matching Is in NC
Since I’m a good mood today—at a beautiful science camp with my kids, high in the mountains near Big Bear Lake in California—I thought I’d blog about something positive. Las…
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Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
I hope you're not tired of the 8087, because I have another article about Intel's floating-point chip. 1 In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087...
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Mistral Small 4
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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UBI as a productivity dividend
Why Universal Basic Income (UBI) Is the Only Way to Share AI and Productivity Gains With Everyone
5090
I switched to Brave
I've been using Brave for a couple months now after using Firefox for around 25 years. I think Brave will be a permanent change.
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Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?
There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative...
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Why AI Sucks at Front End
How can it generate 3D worlds, videos, images and entire web pages, but still suck at front-end?
5093
Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2026125 points118 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
At long last, Relic Entertainment has announced that Age of Empires 4 is coming. Strategy gamers rejoice! I am excited – I played the first one back in ’98 (I may be dating myself here)…
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The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars
How the connected car became an advertising surface. From Stellantis startup pop-ups to GSTV pumps to Gulp Radio aisles, and the consent infrastructure the automobile never developed.
5095
Excessive nil pointer checks in Go
Let’s talk about nil pointer checks in Go. You want to prevent panics in production, but that doesn’t start with a deferred recover. It starts with defensive programming. Check your inputs, check your bounds, and check pointers for nil before dereferencing them. I’ve started to see more nil checks in Go code. In the…
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Book prizes don't work how you think
all the beans that's fit to spill
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The Future of Mathematics
[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, …
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Claude Composer
What happens when you ask Claude Code to compose music? Five experiments later: original songs, music videos, and a full album, all built from scratch.
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The <Geolocation> HTML Element
Discover the new way to request user location data.
5100
Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents
Self-guided agents that think continuously