Science has backed up what many of us have long been saying: the library rocks. A study from the New York Public Library surveyed 1,974 users on how the library makes them feel and how it affects t…

Better SQL through typed, composable query fragments.

Welcome to opm.gov

Dramatic optimizations do not come easy.

Discovery coding is a practice of understanding a problem by writing code first, rather than attempting to do some design process or thinking beforehand.

DeepSeek R1 671B running on 2 M2 Ultras faster than reading speed.

Getting close to open-source O1, at home, on consumer hardware.

With mlx.distributed and mlx-lm, 3-bit quantization (~4 bpw)

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, according to people familiar with the matter.

Apple Inc. has been secretly working with SpaceX and T-Mobile US Inc. to add support for the Starlink network in its latest iPhone software, providing an alternative to the company’s in-house satellite-communication service.

Dianna suffers from ME/CFS and Long COVID. Her health has had slight improvements lately, and she is finally able to stand up!Support Physics Girl videos → h...

I still use Sublime Text in 2025 even after trying a lot of other editors

Astronomers are calling on nations to ban advertising in space that can be seen from the ground, calling it the latest threat to the dark and quiet sky.

Two Bites of Data Science in K : Here are two digestible examples of data analysis using [K][]. Both cases are afternoon-scale projects I've done in the last few weeks. [K]: https://wiki.k-language.dev/wiki/Main_Page

The new ability to pinpoint sources of fast radio bursts places one recent burst in a surprising location.

Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression

Research led by Professor Tobin Filleter (MIE) could benefit industries from automotive to aerospace

I recently talked about (in https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113873092369347147) how solutions in a dynamical systems can be roughly divided into an effective dynamics regime, where simplifying principles such as linearity can be reasonably good approximations…