A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models that generate one word at a time, Gemini Diffusion creates whole blocks of text by refining random…

Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Doctors have long recommended that infants avoid peanuts. But in 2017, experts officially reversed that guidance, and food allergies decreased sharply.

I've upgraded! It took almost a year, but today I finally get to show off a TWO billion frame per second camera! I really want to record refraction, interference, and other awesome stuff with this camera, but today I'm looking into a really strange quirk…

column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

A technique for deterministic labeling from stochastic models, with benchmarked Golang implementation.

Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends, with human page views falling 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation.

About 60,000 children have avoided developing peanut allergies after 2015 guidance upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as 4 months, a new study finds.

Detective Wiki is a discovery game that challenges your knowledge of the world through endless questions about ideas, people, places, and things.

One of the big ambitions for the search engine this year has been to enable searching in more languages than English, and a pilot project for this has just been completed, allowing experimental support for German, French and Swedish.
These changes are now…

The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…

Branches can perform better than table lookups

Turbo Pascal 3.0-compatible compiler that generates machine code for classic and modern Z80 machines (currently ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/Next and CP/M). - pleumann/pasta80

Why modeling audio is harder than text, and how to make it feasible with neural audio codecs.

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth registration, with some people waiting for seven years for a response from…