we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means…

Wolfram is offering a total of $20,000 in prize money to determine if the S combinator is universal. Statement of problem to be solved, full guidelines, committee of judges and submission guidelines.

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.

A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Annotated display of 1000 domestic electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world, including classic and obsolete types.

To combine stderr and stdout into the stdout stream, we append this to a command:
2>&1

For example, the following command shows the first few errors from compiling main.cpp:
g++ main.cpp 2&...

What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in Philanthropy.org A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new e…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.

In a stunning twist, the streaming giant's co-CEOs say the major studio "was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price."

We demonstrate reliable, fine-grained control over language model generation by directly injecting, suppressing, and composing human-interpretable concepts at inference time.

As Israel bans NGOs, the U.S. is handing aid delivery in Gaza to private companies pursuing their own agendas.

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More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.

With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

Scheme language server. Contribute to ufo5260987423/scheme-langserver development by creating an account on GitHub.

Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or of the Voynich Manunoscript—a bizarre 15th century text written in an uncrackable code; that you could solve centuries-old mysteries by asking them, “what were you thinking?”…

Stop managing 7 databases. Stop paying for 7 services. Stop waking up at 3 AM for 7 reasons. Just use Postgres.

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we explored how the Go runtime bootstraps itself — how a Go binary goes from the operating system handing it control to your func main() running. During that bootstrap, one of the first things the runtime sets up is the memory allocator.…

This is a semi-satirical / joking-not-joking post (spun out of a private mastodon post) that I will be taking absolutely no questions or comments about. If it does not amuse you please do not tell me in gruesome well-actually detail why it is a bad idea.<br…