The Life and Works of Raoul Bott

Abstract page for arXiv paper math/0201027: The Life and Works of Raoul Bott

Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist

A case against measuring AI-assisted engineering by code volume and other vanity metrics instead of outcomes.

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items

Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux

Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely embraced. And then the word spread

Making a Shading Language for My Offline Renderer

I made a shading language for my ray tracer last year. This blog has some notes of my thoughts in my shading language system design.

Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles

A comprehensive history of web browsers on video game consoles. From the CD-i to modern systems, exploring the evolution of the web on consoles in detail. Covering bespoke iterations, releases by PlanetWeb and NetFront, contemporary engines across Sega, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox platforms, and other details.

Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos

BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada

BYD is hiring to build its 1,500 kW Flash Charging network in Canada - 5-minute EV charging that works at -20C, a North American first.

Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning

Build A Basic AI Agent From Scratch: Long Task Planning In the previous part of the Build A Basic AI Agent From Scratch series, we added the essential tools to our agent to allow it to work …

Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.

The Economics of Speculative Decoding

Two underexplored axes: what MoE routing does to the decode roofline, and how compressed attention takes away the slack that used to make speculated tokens free.

πFS

πfs - the data-free filesystem! Contribute to philipl/pifs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning

Linux latency on the desktop and in games compared to Windows. Network streaming with Sunshine and Moonlight. Tuning the KWin compositor for lower latencies.

Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)

Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

Human migration has surged since 2000 – these maps reveal where people are going

Modelling with artificial-intelligence tools has filled gaps in migration data, revealing detailed global population movements from 1990 to 2023.,Modelling with artificial-intelligence tools has filled gaps in migration data, revealing detailed global population movements from 1990 to 2023. Modelling with artificial-intelligence tools has filled gaps in migration data, revealing detailed global population movements from 1990 to 2023.