Logos are no longer the sole defining element of a brand, as dynamic branding, AI personalization, and social media dominance challenge their relevance. While still valuable as anchors of identity, logos must evolve into adaptable, integrated tools to thrive in today’s fluid and…
By 2030, leading AI labs will need data centers so massive they will require the power equivalent of some of America’s largest cities. Will they be able to find it?
Seneca pointed out that people tend to be reflexively stingy with their money, but almost comically wasteful with their time. There are at least two ways to take this. One is that Seneca thought he used his time better than you and I do, and maybe he did. Another interpretation…
How a Key-Value (KV) cache reduces Transformer inference time by trading memory for computation
Our paper, Beyond Human Intervention: Algorithmic Collusion through Multi-Agent Learning Strategies, with Suzie Grondin and Philipp Ratz is now available online Collusion in market pricing is a concept associated with human actions to raise market prices through artificially…
NEXT POST: Part II of my thoughts on TikTok, on how the app design is informed by its algorithm and vice versa in a virtuous circle.
The field of artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, with increasing efforts to develop more capable and efficient language models. However, scaling these models comes with challenges, particularly regarding computational resources and the complexity of training. The…
The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release points to the pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on overseas rivals and domestic competition.
How do you bring the African Diaspora to the Grammys?Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento's contrasting tones make a perfect team on Milton + esperanza, a collection of covers, duets, and original songs that have earned the pair a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album…
Pixel-level dose correction improves the quality of masks written by multi-beam.
How did retro sounds, dance moves, and vintage suits come to dominate before suddenly disappearing?
Did you know some people can’t see images in their minds? It’s a real issue—and it has a name: aphantasia.
On our first memories
Learn how to get started building a robust continuous deployment pipeline in GitLab. Follow these step-by-step instructions, practical examples, and best practices.
Often our outcomes will be categorical in nature, but they will also have an order to them. These are sometimes known as ordinal outcomes. Some very common examples of this include ratings of some...
Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs
Jazz OTD: Two masterpieces for today's Jazz OTD. First, Joe Henderson recorded his landmark septet album "Mode For Joe" on January 27, 1966 with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, and Joe Chambers. Perfect hard bop leaning ever so slightly…
Heroku can quickly get expensive. Dig into this article to learn some concrete strategies to reduce your Heroku bill!
An interesting twist in my recent usage of SQLite was the fact that I noticed my research scripts and the database intertwine more. SQLite is unique in that it really lives in-process, unlike standalone database servers. There is a feature to that which does not get used very…
A recipe for reasoning LLMs
For a hot minute, gray was everywhere. Not just a little bit here and there—gray dominated. Gray walls, gray furniture, gray kitchen cabinets, gray exteriors. It was the unofficial uniform of home design in the 2010s, with its cold yet "modern" vibe signaling minimalism…
AI has entered an era of the rise of competitive and groundbreaking large language models and multimodal models. The development has two sides, one with open source and the other being propriety models. DeepSeek-R1, an open-source AI model developed by DeepSeek-AI, a Chinese…
The board game has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. Now a championship-deciding referee’s decision threatens its growth.
Johann Rehberger snagged a copy of the [ChatGPT Operator](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/23/introducing-operator/) system prompt. As usual, the system prompt doubles as better written documentation than any of the official sources. It asks users …
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Developers have tricks to stop artificial intelligence from making things up, but large language models are still struggling to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
It hasn’t been easy sourcing smokers, big cuts of meat, and properly seasoned wood in Chiang Mai, but Davis Campbell, and his fiancée, Rotjana, do just that for their Dinky’s BBQ.
EPJ N - Nuclear Sciences & Technologies
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
In this article, I'll take you through a list of 50+ AI & ML projects solved & explained with Python that you should try.
Longtime Slashdot readers smooth wombat and AmiMoJo shares a fusion energy breakthrough from China. Charming Science reports: China's "artificial sun," officially known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in fusion…
This article covers 12 influential AI research papers of 2024, ranging from mixture-of-experts models to new LLM scaling laws for precision..
New release of my [LLM](https://llm.datasette.io/) CLI tool and Python library. A bunch of accumulated fixes and features since the start of December, most notably: - Support for OpenAI's [o1 model](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models#o1) …
Novel combinations show promise for different applications.
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.
An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about Stargate, DeepSeek, and where the margins and moats will come with models.
Barnes & Noble had invested significantly in revitalizing its physical stores, and it wasn't ready to make the e-commerce jump.
The Harpies appear throughout Greek mythology as part-human and part-bird mythological beasts that conjure feelings of dread and disgust in their victims.
A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional radiotherapy. It also takes less than a second.
To celebrate Rafael Araujo's talent and vision, I have curated a selection of his most stunning illustrations, showcasing the elegance and intricacy of his work.
Engineers at the Naval Research Lab launched a spy satellite program called Parcae and revolutionized signals intelligence at the height of the Cold War. The program relied on computers to sift through intelligence data, providing a technological edge at a pivotal moment in the…
Alan Lomax was a legendary collector of folk music, author, broadcaster, oral historian, musicologist, and filmmaker who raised the profile of folk music worldwide.
This standalone lemon cake needs no adornment; no glaze or drizzle, no syrupy soak (just a light dusting of powdered sugar if you want it to be beauty contest-ready) – yet it practically oozes with glowing citrus flavor, thanks to the fruity olive oil, tangy yogurt and a dash of…
The latest effort, from the Mayo Clinic, holds some clues.
An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt.
In leadership and life, ambitions often outpace our ability to consistently execute on them. A hidden hurdle that trips up many is their level of “frustration tolerance.” This is particularly true in large organizations that are literally designed to frustrate ambitions and…
DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 …
kitty is highly customizable, everything from keyboard shortcuts, to rendering frames-per-second. See below for an overview of all customization possibilities. You can open the config file within k...