Previously, I shared a curmudgeonly 1889 article about the menace of electricity and the telephone and its spiritual cousin, a fifteenth-century screed lamenting the printing press.…

[This is a guest post by the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] We would …

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About three years ago, I memorized the first one hundred digits of pi. I did it on a lark, after reading Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein.…

When I first started working on games, I used high level frameworks that would give you a Camera that just kind of worked. But as I learned more and wanted t...

We are right around the corner from NixCon 2026. Another year where I sadly won’t be present.

We cut PR wait time and running costs by rethinking CI as a system, from the infrastructure underneath it to how work gets scheduled and tests get parallelized.

How Gluon Substrate, Liberica NIK, and StaticFX get JavaFX running as a GraalVM Native Image, including WebView and media, benchmarked on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Tome Lowe capped the 2026 Big Wave Challenge with the season's biggest comeback. Natxo Gonzalez, Justine Dupont, Izzi Gomez, and Rodrigo Koxa also took top honors.

semfont is a small library that sets typography automatically. As you can see below it automatically highlights, colors, bolds, and italicizes text which aims to make it easier to read.

Graphic video shows a shark ripping into a seal just feet from shore at Great Point.

An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.

The rapidly intensifying Pacific storm could send another pulse of tropical swell toward Southern California.

AI can produce code. Organizations still have to produce software. Agentic development is changing how software gets made, but it hasn’t changed what it costs to be wrong. Six months ago, we began

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has been quiet since 1700 — but scientists know the giant offshore fault will rupture again.

Verda has raised $189 million in new funding, led by Emergence Capital, to accelerate its full-stack AI cloud, from data centre capacity to large-scale serving.

Vampire Surf Club founder Nicola Morgan says sun protection and style aren’t mutually exclusive.

Ben Gravy scores a ferry wake so flawless it looks more like Kelly Slater’s wave pool than open water.

I had a bug that took me a while to track down. The problem was type punning. A pointer cast worked fine at -O0 and silently broke at -O2. The C vs C++ distinction here is genuinely treacherous, and most blog posts on the topic get it wrong.

Justin Quintal, the Loggerhead founder shares his 10 picks ahead of the contest at Jax Beach, September 25-27.

From Cox Bay to Teahupo’o and now Natural Selection Surf, the rising Canadian star is embracing every new challenge.

More than 93,000 visible appearances of brands promoting unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling and speculative products were recorded during coverage of the largest FIFA World Cup in history, new research has found.…

The 750-foot First Margaux sends a much smaller vessel violently rolling in the Singapore Strait

A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …

The bizarre Crystal Cove sighting is the second rattlesnake encounter there in just weeks.

Fifty years ago, a Hawaiian surfboard shaper looked at a hydroplane speedboat and saw the future of surfing.

Lossless long-term memory for a personal AI: never summarize, keep every line, put a timestamp on everything. - aru-labs/lossless-memory

Just as a note, from what I see the problem is not only the privacy implications but also that the local AI comes with a baggage amounting to 10% of the space on the base mac models. Which is already severely limited.