Song Hunter: The Life of Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax was a legendary collector of folk music, author, broadcaster, oral historian, musicologist, and filmmaker who raised the profile of folk music worldwide.
One-Bowl Lemon and Olive Oil Cake Recipe
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…
Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer
The latest effort, from the Mayo Clinic, holds some clues.
The Strange Power of Laughter
An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt.
Frustration Tolerance: An Essential for Surviving Large Orgs
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-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
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.conf
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...
Spotify, TikTok and 50 More Great Articles about Music
The best new and classic writing about the world of music
The Derelict • Damn Interesting
A series of accidents and errors amass into disaster at sea. But that's not the end of the story.
Top 10 Game Theory Books to Enhance Strategic Thinking
Explore the best books on game theory to sharpen your strategic thinking. From foundational texts to advanced strategies, these books offer valuable insights for professionals, students, and enthusiasts
How Jukeboxes Made Memphis Music
Nashville is where you go to make a hit that sounds like everyone else. Memphis is where you make a …
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letterheady –adjective 1. overcome by a strong emotion due to a letterhead design. Edited by me,...
Microsoft Presents a Comprehensive Framework for Securing Generative AI Systems Using Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products
The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of generative AI systems across various domains have increased the critical importance of AI red teaming for evaluating technology safety and security. While AI red teaming aims to evaluate end-to-end systems by simulating real-world…
Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products
New paper from Microsoft describing their top eight lessons learned red teaming (deliberately seeking security vulnerabilities in) 100 different generative AI models and products over the past few years. …
5 AI Image Generators You Can Use Now
AI art generation has entered an era of evolution over revolution
35 Simple Health Tips Experts Swear By
They’re surprising, and surprisingly effective. And they’ll help you feel better every single day.
Inside the AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem
AMD acquired ATI in 2006, hoping ATI's GPU expertise would combine with AMD's CPU know-how to create integrated solutions worth more than the sum of their parts.
The Invisible Russia-Ukraine Battlefield
In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict.
Linguists Point to Expressions of Pain as a Possible Universal Language
Linguists think that the words that we use to express pain might tell us something about our shared biology and the commonality of language.
Implementing A Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) Tokenizer From Scratch
This is a standalone notebook implementing the popular byte pair encoding (BPE) tokenization algorithm, which is used in models like GPT-2 to GPT-4, Llama 3,...
This Rumor About GPT-5 Changes Everything
Let’s start the year on an exciting note
I tried living without a car in rural America—I lasted only 2 weeks
I’m already looking to buy an EV.
A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator
Where you get to play with an interactive demo to visualize how Enumerator::Lazy helps avoid unnecessary work
China’s EVs Are Smart, Green, and Cheap — Until They Aren’t
For millions of Chinese EV owners, early promises of affordability, convenience, and cutting-edge tech are now tested by aging batteries, replacement costs, and warranties.
100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem - Cerebras
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Don't use cosine similarity carelessly - Piotr Migdał
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List
We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.
Note: gist: https://gist.github.com/bjpcjp/117ecf144c062c3c933f2690e7ece5c2
Agents
Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995), defines the field of AI research as “the study and design of rational agents.”
Note: I have expanded the previous summaries of each section and paragraph from Chip Huyen's article "Agents," published on January 7, 2025, by including links to the resources cited within the article. **Agent Overview** 1. The term "agent" has been used in various engineering contexts, including software agents, intelligent agents, user agents, conversational agents, and reinforcement learning…
The squat secret: why this simple move is the key to long-term health – and how to improve yours
Whether you want to lift weights in the gym or just get yourself on and off a chair, a good solid squat makes life so much easier. What can you do if yours needs work?
100 Must-Read Generative AI Papers from 2024
A comprehensive list of some of the most impactful generative papers from last year
THERE ARE IDIOTS: Seven pillars of market bubbles | Acadian Asset Management
The 30 Best Dream Pop Albums
Drift off with Beach House, Cocteau Twins, Grouper, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and more
The case for Japan-ifying everything you cook
“Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style” coins the term “wafuing” — shorthand for bringing Japanese flavors into anything and everything.
I Can’t Stop Thinking About Lenovo’s Brilliant Modular Mouse Concept at CES 2025 - Yanko Design
You go to a tech expo like CES expecting to be absolutely wowed by phones, laptops, GPUs, cars, and all sorts of prominent product categories. I went to CES 2025 and was wowed by a mouse... yes, a wireless mouse that connects to your computer. Designed by the folks at Lenovo…
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
Useful things you can do with Rails console
Discover essential tips and tricks to boost your productivity with Ruby on Rails console commands and features.
Understanding Degrees of Freedom in Statistics
Degrees of freedom (df) represent the number of independent values in a dataset that are free to vary while still satisfying the statistical constraints imposed on the data.
7 Next-Generation Prompt Engineering Techniques - MachineLearningMastery.com
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Ecommerce Benefits of Dynamic Pricing
AI-powered platforms transform a decades-old pricing practice.
How to use NotebookLM for personalized knowledge synthesis
Two powerful workflows that unlock everything else. Intro: Golden Age of AI Tools and AI agent frameworks begins in 2025.
AMD Reveals Real Reason It Won't Put 3D V-Cache On Multiple CCDs
After persistent rumors refused to recede, AMD steps in with a clear explanation why dual-CCD V-Cache doesn't exist.
No, the actual reason AMD won't make a dual-V-Cache chip is much simpler: it would be pointless and a waste of money.
Maitake au Poivre Recipe
Hold the steak This vegetarian take on steak au poivre, from Manhattan’s Café Chelsea, boasts the same generous application of crushed black pepper, mellowed with cream, stock and a vibrant splash of Cognac, but calls for slabs of maitake mushroom instead of beef To strut its…
Image Processing With the Python Pillow Library – Real Python
In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Python Pillow library to deal with images and perform image processing. You'll also explore using NumPy for further processing, including to create animations.
Measuring Quantum Noise in IBM Quantum Computers
A discussion around measuring error rates in IBM quantum processors, with code examples, using Qiskit
Lesser Known Uses Of Better Known Attributes — Smashing Magazine
HTML attributes are like little instructions that we add to the markup of elements to make them do certain things or behave in certain ways. For example, most of us know that the `target` attribute with a value of `_blank` opens the link in a new tab or window. But did you know…
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Guitar
The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites.
Physicists magnetize a material with light
MIT physicists created a long-lasting magnetic state in a material, using only light. The results provide a new way to control and switch antiferromagnetic materials, which are of interest for their potential to advance information processing and memory chip technology.
Easy Map Boundary Extraction with GeoPandas
How to visualize country borders with Python
An Opinionated Evals Reading List — Apollo Research
A long reading list of evals papers with recommendations and comments by the evals team.
6 Maintenance Tasks to Conduct for Your Affiliate Program - noupe
Starting an affiliate program is one of the most effective ways to generate traction and grow your business. You authorize others to promote your