30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.

Creative problem solving is following a single very stupid line of brute force logic.

Enabled fp8 training for +4.3% improvement to "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours now. Also worth noting that if you use 8XH100 spot instance prices, this GPT-2 repro really only costs ~$20. So this is exciting -

GPT-2 (7 years ago): too dangerous to release.…

An interesting file system feature that I came across a few years ago is sparse files . In short, many file systems allow you to create a lo...

A $4 Raspberry Pi Pico can help you track a DIY balloon around the world.

Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.

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Research studying the effects of cannabis on the brain has often focused on adolescents, but a new study from CU Anschutz researchers looks at population-level impacts of cannabis usage on the brain in ...

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The most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models today are Transformers employing self-attention. In its standard form, self-attention incurs costs that increase with context length,...

When the eradication program began in 1986, there were a 3.5 million cases.

Precision diarization, real-time trannoscription, and a new audio playground.

A crowdsourcing site for creating and viewing georeferenced mosaics of historical Sanborn fire insurance maps

Fastmail stuck with Perl because Perl stuck with them. TPRF can fund community grants again because of donors like this.