NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Attention is all you have

The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...

Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors for multiple models.

Can gzip be a language model?

A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …

Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)

What Sun got wrong

Spymarks, Not Watermarks

Watermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks

I don't want to read what you didn't write

Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.

World Wide Words

Full A–Z index to all articles, word histories, and features on World Wide Words.

How do traffic signals work? (2019)

If you live in a major city, I can take a pretty good guess at one of your most common frustrations: traffic. In city driving, the journey is rarely better than the destination. In most cases, we just want to get where we’re going. Traffic is not just frustrating, but it has consequences to the envi

Transformers Explained Visually

An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.

Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

Divide by depth for instant 3D

When I first started working on games, I used high level frameworks that would give you a Camera that just kind of worked. But as I learned more and wanted t...

Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)

PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)

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The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Python Workers are now generally available

Python Workers allow developers to run Python web frameworks and AI orchestration libraries natively in the Cloudflare Workers runtime. You can seamlessly integrate with Cloudflare's ecosystem including D1, R2, and Workers AI without writing any JavaScript glue code.

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

We cut PR wait time and running costs by rethinking CI as a system, from the infrastructure underneath it to how work gets scheduled and tests get parallelized.

MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Analysis of Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

MiMo v2.6

Introducing the MiMo-V2.6 series: frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public.