Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

Nonverbal behaviors such as posture, gestures, and gaze are essential for conveying internal states, both consciously and unconsciously, in…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

Communications Engineering - Emilia Di Lorenzo and colleagues propose an approach to address the energy transport problem of cooking the albumen and yolk of a boiled egg at their optimal...

What Red Hat sees as the minimum criteria for AI to be open source.

LD_PRELOADable library for exploring the glibc heap - heap-exploitation/heap-explorer

Humanity's Last Exam Dataset

We are relieved to let you know that our YouTube channel is back! A reporter from Ars Technica, after reading the article by @pkirn.bsky.social, was able to reach out to us and then directly contact a Google employee that could accelerate our appeal to be…

Make your own AI by hand ✍️ exercises

Trigger warning: incredibly wonky theoretical cryptography post (written by a non-theorist)! Also, this will be in two parts. I plan to be back with some more thoughts on practical stuff, like clou…

It's an iffy Amazon leadership principle but a great engineering metric

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect

How Bruin genetic scientists are reawakening hibernating follicles.

In order to thrive in hostile and ever-changing natural environments, mammalian brains evolved to store large amounts of knowledge about the world and continually integrate new information while...

Self-play has powered breakthroughs in two-player and multi-player games. Here we show that self-play is a surprisingly effective strategy in another domain. We show that robust and naturalistic...

The 28th annual Christmas lecture
Thursday, December 5, 2024

A directed graph can often be best understood and used if we partition its vertices into separate components of various kinds. Most important are the strongly connected components, called “strong…