At the end of the school year, a lot gets tossed by Duke students at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year I decided to dive in.

It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has been an effective approach for improving Large Language Models' reasoning in domains such as coding and mathematics. Here, we apply RLVR...

This resource covers using logic within writing—logical vocabulary, logical fallacies, and other types of logos-based reasoning.

[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] From 1975 through early 1977, the use of personal computers remained almost exclusively the province of …

Whenever a new piece of technology comes out (these days, mostly AI) I go to some effort to understand it. Usually I end up writing a post about it, so I can be…

A council says two to four fall into the water in a city centre during grazing season each year.

Pre-built Mesa3D drivers for Windows. Contribute to pal1000/mesa-dist-win development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Many classic Macs came with — or supported — displays running at 512×384 pixels, but many compact Macs, ranging from the original 1984 machine up through 1991’s Macintosh Classic II had built-in CRTs running at 512×342 pixels. That covers all black-and-white…

LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from …

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An outpost for Chicano culture in Vietnam attracts community — and occasional concerns among older generations inclined to associate tattoos with gangs.

The Level Design Book gathers level design knowledge for 3D video games in an approachable, up-to-date, and critical way. It is for designers of all experience levels and game engines.

Solving a boot-time power challenge on PoE+ x86 systems by creating our own UEFI app to handle LLDP power negotiation at the firmware level, allowing our machines to request higher power from network switches before the OS loads.

Watch live as a Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on a critical test flight for SpaceX's fully reusable rocket, following two consecutive failures of the Starship upper stage.

Liftoff of the 9th fully integrated Starship from SpaceX's Starbase facility…

Neither full stop nor comma, they symbolise a nuance that is disappearing in a polarised world