A blog about math by Nic Ford

Tiny Predictive Text uses the ArT DeCo (Anchor Tree with Decaying Context) technique to generate sentence completions. For optimum efficiency and file size, Tiny is built in Rust and compiled to Wasm…

Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.

Xenobroom Inc., a young startup fresh out of Silicon Valley started a lengthy process of upgrading their server infrastructure back in May 2020.

"We'll add it to our Outlook reminders..."

In the old days, if you were a white-collar worker, the deal was that you worked as hard as you could at the start of your career to earn the right to be rewarded later on, with security of tenure and a series of increasingly senior positions. This is no…

This book follows on from the Linux From Scratch book. It introduces and guides the reader through additions to the system including networking, graphical interfaces, sound support, and printer and scanner support.

It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: The negotiated sale price was fair. They are a big com…

Chris Haynes - web developer consultant

Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy.

High-performance data engine for AI and multimodal workloads. Process images, audio, video, and structured data at any scale - Eventual-Inc/Daft

One Atlanta resident has taken it upon himself to clean the streets of nails, screws and other metal bits that have been left to accumulate in large amounts. Known as […]

As of today, NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs.

OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed-source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.

Awhile back, I had the chance to dump a game for MAME. I told myself that if the chance ever came up again, I’d contribute again. Luckily, it …

I'm unsure how popular GameNOW magazine was, but over the course of two years, they pulled off one of the weirdest running gags I've seen in a game magazine, just to have fun at the expense of an irate reader who didn't like Final Fantasy VIII.



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The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders.

I describe my experiments with programming Java sans GC