Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of ...
ICEBREAKERS, via The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker
“Icebreaker of the Week” is a recurring feature of the newsletter The Art of Noticing (robwalker.substack.com). Some are icebreakers I made up or experienced or found somewhere; many are submitted by TAoN readers. After many requests, I am collecting & sharing all the…
Talking To Your Mailserver Is Not as Hard as You Think!
The technology behind E-Mails (or ‘emails‘) always interested me. This is because in some sense it was way ahead of its time by being a decentralized communication system. Unlike WhatsApp, Telegram or other messenger services, where the service provi...
punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
A collection of MCP servers
The Secret History of America’s Involvement in the Ukraine War
This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.
Why We Love to Be Grossed Out - Nautilus
Disgust may not be a straightforward extension of the immune system’s aversion to harmful substances, but rather “a psychological nebula, lacking definite boundaries, discrete internal structure, or a single center of gravity,” says psychologist Nina Strohminger.Photograph by…
First Look at Reasoning From Scratch: Chapter 1
As you know, I've been writing a lot lately about the latest research on reasoning in LLMs. Before my next research-focused blog post, I wanted to offer something special to my paid subscribers as a thank-you for your ongoing support. So, I've started writing a new book on how…
Breaking Through
Icebreakers are corny, corporate get-to-know-you exercises. But there’s something thrilling in dispensing with small talk.
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality
There is increasing evidence that imagination relies on similar neural mechanisms as externally triggered perception. This overlap presents a challeng…
February 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
In February, one hundred fifty-nine new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in fifteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Genomics, Health Sciences, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Music,...
csvgrep
search for patterns in a CSV and display results in a table
How DeepSeek Rewrote the Transformer [MLA]
Thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring today’s video! Go to https://www.kiwico.com/welchlabs and use code WELCHLABS for 50% off your first monthly club crate or for...
From Iron Man to Reality: Hand Gesture Recognition Reshapes Tech Interaction - Dataconomy
The surge in hand gesture recognition is not merely a novelty; it's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with machines.
What Makes a Memory Real?
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
During imagination, the information comes from the other direction: Higher-order areas of the visual cortex are activated first.
This is because reality monitoring can chuck “memories” into the false category through two primary ways. The first is the assessment of the richness of the memory. If a memory seems too just-the-facts, without those other enriching impressions, it seems more likely not to have truly happened to…
What is Q-learning? - Dataconomy
Q-learning is a model-free reinforcement learning algorithm that enables agents to learn optimal actions through interaction with their environment.
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
In a follow-up to the research that brought us the [delightful Golden Gate Claude](https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/24/golden-gate-claude/) last year, Anthropic have published two new papers about LLM interpretability: - [Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational …
SMIC Is Rumored To Complete 5nm Chip Development By 2025; Costs Could Be Up To 50 Percent Higher Than TS…
China’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer, SMIC, is rumored to complete 5nm chip development in 2025, leading to advanced chip orders from Huawei
kumar91gopi/Algorithms-and-Data-Structures-in-Ruby: Ruby implementation of Algorithms,Data-structures and programming challenges
Ruby implementation of Algorithms,Data-structures and programming challenges - kumar91gopi/Algorithms-and-Data-Structures-in-Ruby
Efficient Data Structures in R
This article aims to explain the main data structures in R and how to use them.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Ultimate Taboo
Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.
The Dingo’s Fate
The convoluted story of how a species of dog first arrived in Australia and subsequently took over the Outback challenges fundamental notions about what it means to be “native.”
Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model
What they found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works.
I Explored the Biggest Man Pages on Linux, Here’s What I Learned
These manuals go large.
North America’s First and Only da Vinci Museum is Coming to CO
Coming to Pueblo, CO, this fall, the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America will be the first and only museum of its kind in the continent.
First-Time Silicon Success Plummets
Number of designs that are late increases. Rapidly rising complexity is the leading cause, but tools, training, and workflows need to improve.
“Historically, it’s been around 30%. Two years ago it dropped to 24% from 2023 to 2024. It dropped to 14% this time around. That’s one data point. Another is that historically we’ve seen about two-thirds of projects were behind schedule. That increased to 75% behind schedule.”
Classical Reasoning and Debugging
Classical philosophy offers us multiple reasoning strategies for dealing with tricky bugs.
Beginner’s Guide to Deploying a Machine Learning API with FastAPI
In this guide, you will learn how to deploy a machine learning model as an API using FastAPI. We will create an API that predicts the species of a penguin based on its bill length and flipper length. Prerequisites Step 1: Set Up Your Environment Step 2: Prepare Your Machine…
10 Must-Know Python Libraries for LLMs in 2025
In this article, we explore 10 of the Python libraries every developer should know in 2025.
Tacos del Carmen
Don't be surprised if you run into some of Oaxaca's top chefs in line at this family-run taco stop.
The Future of AI Accelerators: A Roadmap of Industry Leaders The AI… | Nader EL-Masri
The Future of AI Accelerators: A Roadmap of Industry Leaders The AI hardware race is heating up, with major players like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Google, Amazon, and more unveiling their upcoming AI accelerators. Here’s a quick breakdown of the latest trends: Key Takeaways: NVIDIA…
The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain | Quanta Magazine
A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate.
What Limits a Cell’s Size?
Two physical constraints help explain why cells are so tiny: surface area-to-volume ratios and diffusion. The first article in our new Data Series.
Why These Tropical Trees Love a Lightning Strike
One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them
Function calling with Gemma
Google's Gemma 3 model (the 27B variant is particularly capable, I've been trying it out [via Ollama](https://ollama.com/library/gemma3)) supports function calling exclusively through prompt engineering. The official documentation describes two recommended …
Elephants Never Forget War - Nautilus
Violence is written in their genes.
From Loops to Klein Bottles: Uncovering Hidden Topology in High Dimensional Data
Motivation • Dimensionality reduction is vital to the analysis of high dimensional data, i.e. data with many features. It allows for better understa…
Healing My Family’s Future
How genetics and IVF empowered a family to leave cancer behind.
What are evolutionary algorithms? - Dataconomy
Evolutionary algorithms are optimization techniques inspired by natural evolution, solving complex problems through processes like selection, adaptation, and mutation.
Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces
There’s a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems”. It’s already …
A Code Implementation for Advanced Human Pose Estimation Using MediaPipe, OpenCV and Matplotlib
A Code Implementation Guide to Advanced Human Pose Estimation using MediaPipe, OpenCV and Matplotlib
Processing a Directory of CSVs Too Big for Memory with Dask - KDnuggets
Learn how to process the big data in the CSV format.
Introducing 4o Image Generation
At OpenAI, we have long believed image generation should be a primary capability of our language models. That’s why we’ve built our most advanced image generator yet into GPT‑4o. The result—image generation that is not only beautiful, but useful.
A Crucial Optical Technology Has Finally Arrived
Nvidia's endorsement of co-packaged optics means the time is right
What is the hallucination index?
The Hallucination Index is a benchmark that measures the frequency of inaccuracies in large language models, indicating their reliability and contextual understanding.
Sachiyo Harada’s Visual Guide to Mastering Japanese Cuisine
Sachiyo Harada’s new cookbook offers 100 classic recipes with step-by-step visuals, making Japanese cooking accessible to all skill levels.
A Complete Guide to Understanding Probability Distributions
This article is your ultimate guide to understanding them gently and illustratively.
10 Tricks You Can Do With FFmpeg on Linux
FFmpeg is way cooler than it sounds.
Rimowa is selling old, beat-up suitcases—and they’ll likely be snatched up in minutes
Rimowa's pre-owned suitcases look well-worn. And many consumers see these dents and scratches as a badge of honor.
content_for -- What is it good_for?
The Marie Kondo for bits of HTML that spark joy but have no home.
Opinion | He Cut a Secret Deal That Cemented U.S. Economic Power — And He Has a Lesson for Donald Trump
A forgotten Nixon-era negotiation offers urgent lessons for our new age of economic warfare.
Not everyone could have made the fraught decision to ration gasoline, that American lifeblood, and allocate scarce oil supplies to factories over motorists. But that’s what Simon did.