How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.

Using Java's Foreign Function API to Call C like fopen, fgets, and fclose.

15 years ago (2007-2011) I was at Yahoo! working with Map/Reduce and Apache Pig, which was the better Map/Reduce at the time. The Dremel paper just came out and, as everything I worked with seemed to be inspired from Google papers, I read it. I could see…

I saw this tweet yesterday from @deepfates, and I am very on board with this: Watching in real time as “slop” becomes a term of art. the way that “spam” …

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Can you run scanners over iSCSI?

TL;DR: LLMs have been traditionally regarded as sequential decoders, decoding one token after another. In this blog, we show pretrained LLMs can be easily taught to operate as efficient parallel decoders. We introduce Consistency Large Language Models (CLLMs)…

Der Countdown läuft! In wenigen Tagen eröffnet der neue Monaco-Abschnitt im Miniatur Wunderland. Deswegen haben Gerrit und das gesamte Team alle Hände voll zu tun. Ein langer und nicht immer einfacher Weg geht zu Ende und wir blicken heute – mit freundlicher…

In this ever changing and evolving world of user generated versus AI generated content, the recent announcement of Stack Overflow partnering with OpenAI

Posted by Christian Plagemann, Director, and Katya Cox, Product Manager, Google Research Learning a language can open up new opportunities in a per...

Bubbles on the top of your coffee bed during the bloom phase of brewing aren’t just cute—they can tell you things about your brew.

This incredibly ambitious and thoroughly-executed project is by Charlie Humble-Thomas, done while pursuing his Masters in the Design Products program at the RCA. Called Conditional Longevity, it asks the question: "How long should objects last?" Seeking the…

[caption id="attachment_86176" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] The Complete Commercial Artist. Courtesy of Jim Heimann Collection[/caption]The years bet...

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Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.

My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking…