a loss plateau that looked like my mistake turned out to be a PyTorch bug. tracking it down meant peeling back every layer of abstraction, from optimizer internals to GPU kernels.

The lack of a concrete definition for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) obscures the gap between today's specialized AI and human-level cognition. This paper introduces a quantifiable...

A mouse study at WashU Medicine shows how Alzheimer’s disease reprograms genes in specialized cells involved in amyloid plaque removal.

A look around the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center underground facility.

A x86 Unix-like OS made entirely from scratch. Contribute to dvir-biton/MyraOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

In a little over a century, the electron microscope evolved from a tool barely capable of resolving virus particles into one able to capture atomic detail.

When I was in high school, my teacher once told us a crazy story.

Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.

Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.

I’ve been watching the Zig language for a while now, given that it was created for writing audio software (low-level, no allocations, real time). I never paid too much attention though, it seemed a little weird to me and I didn’t see the real need. Then I…

Implementations of the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon - rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have developed algorithms that improve the precision of location tracking in smartwatches, a world-first development.

Private and secure Android browser with support for browser extensions. - jqssun/android-helium-browser

An efficient unique-line counter (25x over `sort | uniq -c`) - noamteyssier/hist-rs

The 1975 Sphere Computer from Utah. Images, resources, documentation, virtual Sphere emulator, and book updates!