A Programmer's Best Friend

It was an adventure into the unknown. From the surface all that could be seen was a small opening. The ABC has been given exclusive access to newly-discovered caves on South Australia's Kangaroo Island.

I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleverness" is becoming a reality in various ways.

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A study shows that young people who use tanning beds have more skin mutations including cells known to lead to skin cancer.

Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.

The Indie Game Awards presented the award last night, only to strip it hours later.

The Inca's precise stonework is often depicted as shrouded in mystery. Yet their construction methods were documented by early Spanish chroniclers. These historical records, supported by physical evidence, reveal how the Inca quarried, transported, split…

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Make AI weird again.

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest on intuition rather than clear definitions, and few…

Executive Summary On 2 December 2025, an IPv4 block 23.150.164.0/24, correctly allocated to the Original Customer, was inadvertently removed and reissued to the …

I felt like I somehow needed fame. In retrospect, there was a lot of self-loathing from tough childhood experiences, and I desperately hoped that love from without (i.e., from masses of other people) would somehow make up for hate from within.

Constrained decoding seems like the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it often forces models to prioritize output conformance over output quality.

C# 14’s field keyword helps reduce property boilerplate code. This article examines the IL code behind the new keyword and highlights caveats you must know before refactoring your codebase.

Deciding not to solve a problem, or solving a different one, can also be a viable solution.