Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling - Punya Mishra’s Web
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat…
d-Matrix’s Raptor 3D DRAM Achieves SRAM-Class Bandwidth at 1/10th the HBM Power by Dropping PHY & Fusing DRAM Beneath the Compute
d-Matrix's Raptor 3D DRAM delivers 100 TB/s bandwidth at 0.37 pJ/bit, offering a high-efficiency alternative to SRAM and HBM for AI workloads
AI Chip Architectures
A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras.
wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources: A curriculum for learning about gpu performance engineering, from scratch to what the frontier AI…
A curriculum for learning about gpu performance engineering, from scratch to what the frontier AI labs do - wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources
The World's Greatest Machine, the Large Hadron Collider, Just Shut Down. Here's Why That's Good News
The Large Hadron Collider has stopped colliding. It will be four years before it starts again.
The Summer Everything Changed For Audrey Hepburn
In 1952, Audrey Hepburn arrived in Rome as a relative unknown to film 'Roman Holiday,' setting in motion a career that would make her an icon.
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities
Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more opportunities
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
Our love for telling tales reveals the workings of the mind
Thinking in Python
#55: The New Mexico medevac crash is about more than GPS Jamming
Pilots do not get an asterisk saying "GPS only" on their instrument ratings.
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts - Ars Technica
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...
Are Open Models Catching Up?
Comparing open vs. closed models across the eras of frontier models
The brain doesn’t just experience reality. It edits it into a story
Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative
The primary glue for what remains is cause and effect
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Next generation AI attack vectors will be ideas, say Anthropic researchers
Computer scientists have bred self-propagating "mind viruses" that spread from one AI agent to the next through ordinary conversation — no hacking required
DNS Record Types Explained: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and More
DNS record types map domains to servers, route email, publish verification data, and control certificate issuance. See zone-file examples and dig queries.
DNS record cards linking a domain to IP addresses, mail servers, and security policies
MX records route email
What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x — CatalystNeuro
A given level of LLM intelligence costs about a thirtieth of what it did a year ago, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Using Artificial Analysis's measured cost per task, this post traces the falling price of each capability level, explains why cheaper intelligence leads…
A great deal of useful work does not require the smartest model available, but a model that is good enough, applied many thousands of times
At today’s prices a full pass over the corpus costs a little over a hundred dollars with a model whose capability was at the frontier in the spring. At the prices of this past March, the same pass with the same level of capability would have cost several thousand dollars, and a year ago that…
NPO State of the Union
When NPO? Who NPO? Where NPO? Why NPO? Winners, losers, and more.
Why Thailand was never colonized
Diplomacy, reform, and a convenient stone
Mongkut came across a remarkable object: a four-sided, black stone monolith, about a meter high and inscribed with an unusual script. The stone would become known as the Ramkhamhaeng Stele.
The discovery of the Stele was, as it turned out, serendipitous. Over five centuries, European powers colonized virtually every other territory on Earth
12 Best Free Platforms to Learn DevOps with Hands-On
Practice makes a devops perfect.
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Bari Weiss Blew Up 60 Minutes. Now She Has to Fix it.
Inside her battles with the staff and her attempts to overhaul the show.
Lead Belly: The Convicted Killer Who Changed American Music
Huddie Ledbetter served two prison terms for violent crimes and still became one of the most influential musicians America ever produced. The full story of Lead Belly.
Vital Records (Interactive) - West Virginia Culture Center
Search Vital Records The Vital Research Records Project is placing Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates on-line. Users can search the records and view
A seriously weird study just proved confidence is contagious | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Can you catch the bug?
A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem's Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom
Harlem’s undergoing another Renaissance, and has been for years now. Crime’s down, real estate prices are up, and throngs of pale-faced hipsters are descending to check the area out. Sure, something’s gained, but something’s lost, too.
HTML Can Do That
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
Tomato Lentil Rice With Feta Yogurt Recipe • 5★ • 1 hr
This deeply comforting one pot tomato-lentil rice works equally well as a side dish or as the main part of a meal. Aromatic cumin and coriander pair well with the acidity of the marinara, while the earthy turmeric gives the dish a golden brown hue.
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Incentives are for losers
OR: you must look at this fish and go insane
You Probably Don’t Get Why Stripe Bought OpenRouter — Research — AMP PBC
Stripe's purchase of OpenRouter has been read as a routing or billing acquisition. We argue it's a strategic security decision, and that this is net positive for the ecosystem.
Star Wars Cantina Auditions
The Rockefeller of solar
No drilling required
The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket - Ars Technica
We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible."
Design for Testability (DFT): How Do We Know a Chip Actually Works?
Designing a semiconductor chip is not only about making it perform its intended function.
Physicists entangle quantum memories across a record-breaking 420 km
Optical fibers are already the backbone of global communication systems. Recently, however, physicists have started to explore how their functionality could be boosted further by conveying information ...
FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c: A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 running inference on a single CPU in 8.24 GB of RAM. Portable C99: no BLAS…
A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 running inference on a single CPU in 8.24 GB of RAM. Portable C99: no BLAS, no framework, no GPU. - FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c
Researchers Use Photons & Phonons for Long-Distance Qubit Communication - News
The team employed a quantum material and chip architecture that could be key in scaling quantum computers to one million qubits.
The Company Riding the Thirteenth Channel
There is a hidden track baked into almost every blockbuster, a frozen eight-dollar toll, and a company the market still calls a shaky-chair vendor.
Why parabolas are crucial to cryptography
Cryptographers use points along a curve to crack especially tough codes
Python Polars: The Definitive Cheatsheet
Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars.
Browsing tools and Ad blockers: A guide to cleaner web experiences
Five browser-based ad blockers compared: Open Adblocker, uBlock Origin Lite, AdGuard, Ghostery, and Adblock Plus, each suited to a different browsing preference.
The Genius of Airplane!: How to Make a Comedy by Playing Everything Completely Straight
Not every 46-year-old comedy still gets laughs, but Airplane! seems only to get funnier with the decades.
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Plus Gemini 3.7 Flash, Muse Glimmer, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
The 100 Best Essays from Aeon
Click through for our favourite wrting from Aeon magazine
The CIA's Mystery Plane?
A plane registered to a Virginia LLC wound up involved in a CIA covert action near the Galapagos
Nothing Moves the Needle
Not that long ago, the press could root out corruption, topple presidents, and end wars. Now, even the biggest scoops have little impact. Here's how and why the media lost its mojo.
General Dynamics Failed to Build Artillery Shells for the Army — ProPublica
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
#semiconductor #hbm #chiplets #ucie | Paul Chao
The most expensive part of HBM is not the DRAM. It is the piece of silicon underneath it. HBM moves data over a very wide parallel bus, roughly 1024 bits per stack. Every one of those wires has to be routed through a silicon interposer sitting between the memory and the compute…
A controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms — here’s what scientists know
Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.
I Was Told There Would Be a Nap Shirt | Funny T-Shirt
Shop the I Was Told There Would Be a Nap T-shirt—a soft unisex funny tee for tired parents, weekend survivors, and anyone who needs a nap.