It was mostly pretty bad, but Happy 4th of July!

In this post I discuss how to use the new Git rebasing feature, --update-refs, and how it makes working with stacked branches/PRs easier.

People fail for a lot of reasons. People do crazy things for a lot of reasons. But one reason we don’t talk about enough is sleep. I watched this at American Apparel. There were a lot of problems at that company. It borrowed too much money. It had a toxic…

An open-source universal messaging library

With their quadruple personalities, those little brown birds at your feeder are a lot more interesting than they might appear.

'No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers' proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.

A fossil found inside a souvenir 'pet rock' could push the start of complex life on Earth back by about 750 million years.

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

Big Tech consumes more than many countries

About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade…

This paper introduces CURLoRA, a novel approach to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that leverages CUR matrix decomposition in the context of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our method addresses two critical challenges in LLM fine-tuning: mitigating catastrophic…

Presentation #336.03 in the session “Collaboration with Integrity: Partnerships with Indigenous Communities in the Americas and Polynesia”.

In an astounding display of computational prowess, the StorageReview Lab Team has set a consecutive world record by calculating pi to an incredible 202,112,290,000,000 digits. This remarkable achievement eclipses the previous record of 105 trillion digits…

Spade-toothed whales are the world's rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. Until, perhaps, now. One may have washed up onto a New Zealand beach.