The KV Cache Compression Race: TurboQuant vs OSCAR vs EpiCache - MarkTechPost

Compare TurboQuant, OSCAR, and EpiCache: three 2026 methods compressing the LLM KV cache to cut long-context memory cost

How to Hack a Superyacht | The Walrus

GPS is critical to everything from shipping to warfare. Tricking it is ridiculously easy

GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in …

Bash Subshells: Isolate Variables and Directory Changes

Bash subshells run commands in an isolated shell environment. This guide explains parentheses, variable scope, directory changes, command substitution, pipelines, and exit codes.

cut Cheatsheet

Quick reference for extracting fields, bytes, and characters with cut in Linux

Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions

The hedge-fund magnate is an unabashed big spender—from pièds-a-terre to politics. Gary Sernovitz profiles the financial titan behind the Citadel hedge fund.

Frontier | Winston (@frontiermap)

The steel almost nobody can make. Grain-oriented electrical steel, or GOES, is the material at the heart of every large transformer core. It is a silicon-iron alloy at roughly 3% silicon, rolled into sheets 0.18 to 0.35 millimeters thick, with the crystalline grains forced into…

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed...

From pottery to hypersonic power

Weaving with stone: The super-ceramic revolution

siliconcompiler/lambdapdk: Library of open source PDKs

Library of open source PDKs

hostnamectl Command in Linux: Set and Query Hostname

Use hostnamectl to view and change the Linux hostname. Covers static, transient, and pretty names, system metadata, remote hosts, and common errors.

Donut Lab Claims Looking Like Fraud - NeuroLogica Blog

In medical education we have a concept called longitudinal care - interns and residents need to follow a case through to its conclusion, or at least long term, so that can learn the entire process. This is why on-call work hours used to be so horrifically long (up to 36 hours)…

Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs - MarkTechPost

Flash-KMeans is an IO-aware, exact K-Means that uses FlashAssign and Sort-Inverse Update to outperform FAISS by over 200×.

The University of Michigan put their entire robotics degree on GitHub.

Not one course. The whole curriculum. ROB 101 — Computational Linear Algebra for Robotics ROB 311 — How to Build Robots and Make Them Move ROB 501 — Mathematics for Robotics ROB 530 — Mobile Robotics Every

Claude Code Guide 2026: 25 Features with Examples + Demo - MarkTechPost

Claude Code explained: 25 features and strategies, including subagents, hooks, MCP, and Auto Mode, with examples and demo.

Skills

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How Do You Authenticate a Work of Art? (3 Main Ways) | TheCollector

Art authentication is a complex process meant to verify and understand the origin of an artwork. The three main tools are connoisseurship, technical analysis, and provenance research.

dig Cheatsheet

Quick reference for querying DNS records, tracing resolution, and debugging name resolution with dig

A Masterclass on Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration

From 2D to 3.5D, a teardown of 2.5D CoWoS (TSV, RDL, Bump/pillar) and emerging trends (Glass, Panels, Bridges in Organic Substrate, and Hybrid Bonding)

3 NumPy Tricks for Numerical Performance - KDnuggets

In this article, we will cover three essential NumPy tricks to optimize your code: vectorization and broadcasting, in-place operations, and leveraging memory views instead of copies.

To optimize, you must write code using native universal functions (ufuncs) and broadcasting.

When working with very large arrays (e.g. millions of entries), allocating and garbage-collecting these temporary intermediate arrays creates substantial overhead.

How Henrique Schmaiske Led Meteor.js Through Its Biggest Transformation - Dataconomy

Henrique Schmaiske is the technology leader behind Meteor 3.0, which is the largest release of Meteor.js in more than a

How Soviet prisons spread a secret 'language of thieves' now spoken by millions

The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin's Gulags. Now they are now being used by Russian cyber-criminals.

Kool-Aid Pineapples Look Toxic and Taste Amazing. Here's How to Make Them.

Kool-Aid pineapples are the internet’s current summer snack obsession because apparently, regular fruit was getting cocky.

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition

A few weeks ago we looked at a simulation of technological evolution by economist Brian Arthur, in which he was able to start with simple building blocks (such as a NAND gate) and evolve surprisingly complex circuits (such as a 12-way AND gate or a 4-bit adder) by randomly…

What’s the Future of Gene Editing? | Quanta Magazine

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology.

Feature Stores from Scratch: A Minimal Working Implementation

Build the five components every feature store needs, then see where AI changes the design.

When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three”

An MIT team proved that it is impossible to get information about correlations from two-way comparisons alone. Correlations can be discerned, however, when large numbers of people rate three alternatives in their order of preference.

Submitting to the Beast

Author and essayist Todd Kliman takes his thirteen-year-old son on a culinary field trip to New Orleans.

Linux Pipes Explained: How to Use the | Operator

Linux pipes connect command output to another command's input. Learn the | operator, pipefail, stderr piping, xargs, named pipes, and process substitution.

A $1,500 foundation model that rivals larger LLMs

Sapient researchers trained a 1B reasoning model on just 40B tokens — scoring competitively with 2B-7B models at a fraction of typical pretraining cost.

Energy Incarnate! Making the miracle metal.

Caging the lightning: How we make aluminium

12 Things Orthopedic Surgeons Do to Maintain Speed, Balance, and Longevity

From weighted planks to "pogos" at bus stops.

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Bash Array Operations: Length, Search, Slice, and Reverse

Practical Bash array operations for checking length, finding values, slicing, reversing, iterating, appending, prepending, and removing elements.

https://open.substack.com/pub/semianalysis/p/deepseekv4-16t-day-0-to-day-43-performance?r=oc5d&utm_medium=ios

Anthropic's Complete Guide to Claude Skills Building

This guide covers the complete picture: what skills are technically, how to plan and design them, the exact file structure and naming rules, how to write instructions that Claude follows reliably, a complete working skill built from scratch, how to test and distribute, and what…

LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)

A January-May 2026 list of notable LLM research papers, covering new models, training methods, agents, reasoning, and efficiency improvements.

For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony

Sloane Crosley, the author of “Grief Is for People,” reports on misophonia, the neurophysiological disorder characterized by a severe aversion to sound.

The Tank Killer: Making Tungsten

Life, death and new worlds: Gifts from the miracle metal.

This Is Why America Can’t Have Robots And Other Nice Things

Every robot and drone runs on actuators — and China makes 90% of them. Inside the American startups racing to win back the motors the U.S. forgot how to build.

Ansible Cheatsheet

Quick reference for Ansible commands, inventories, playbooks, modules, and vault

How funerals keep Africa poor

Why the poorest people in the world spend fortunes burying their dead

All Open-Source LLMs You Should Know | Aman Kharwal

In this article, I’ll go over the open-source LLMs you should know and when to use them. All Open-Source LLMs to know.

What is an agent?

Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more!

How to Use OpenSSL: Generate Keys, Certificates, and Test TLS

Practical OpenSSL guide for Linux: generate private keys, create CSRs and self-signed certificates, convert formats, inspect certificates, and test TLS connections.

The Stanford Method That Makes People Remember Every Word You Say

The uncomfortable truth about being heard

Real success has three signals that are easy to test for: the audience understood the message, the audience felt something specific, and the audience did something afterward

Before you speak — in a meeting, an email, a difficult conversation, a keynote — answer three questions honestly. What do I want them to know? What do I want them to feel? What do I want them to do?

Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search

How Facebook AI Research solved the problem of finding similarity at billion-scale. An interactive exploration of IVF, HNSW, and Product Quantization.

The flag stranglers - Works in Progress Magazine

Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.

Book Review: How Radio Astronomy Made the Invisible Visible

Emma Chapman's "The Echoing Universe" is a vivid survey of the hidden parts of the cosmos and those who seek them out.

The 3 Bank Accounts Everyone Retiring Abroad Needs

Americans retiring abroad need 3 bank accounts to manage money smoothly. Here's the simple system: U.S. home base, fintech bridge, and local account.

Sampling Famous TV Theme Songs

Nic C is a musician who samples music from classic television programs. He takes short slices--just a few notes each--of these famous songs and uses them to compose new music that is simulatenously original and familiar.If you're a fellow Gen Xer, you'll appreciate Nic C's…