Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator.

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The fun and rides stopped, but the memories linger.

abolish the damn bar

There is such a thing as a free lunch

Handy decorator for elegant design-by-contract in 3.10+ - GitHub - StefanUlbrich/design-by-contract: Handy decorator for elegant design-by-contract in 3.10+

With Google Kubernetes Engine’s (GKE) support for the new Tau VM T2A, you can run your containerized workloads on the Arm architecture.

Supply chain issues are killing synth companies and making it impossible for others to manufacture and ship new designs.

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A tutorial/guide on getting started with DirectX Raytracing. It is basically everything I wished I had when getting started with DXR for the first time.

Fossil fuels are making news for all the wrong reasons of late. Whether it’s their contribution to global climate change or the fact that the price and supply hinges on violent geopolitics, t…

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One could say I have a bit of an obsession with build times.
I believe having a “tight feedback loop” is extremely valuable: when I work on a large codebase, I want to be able to make small increme...

After I wrote recently about Ramanujan’s approximation \(\pi^4\approx 2143/22\), writing “why do powers of \(\pi\) seem to have unusually good rational appro...

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The Tau T2A is Google Cloud’s first VM family based on the Arm architecture and designed for organizations building cloud-native, scale-out workloads.