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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Chief Scientist Jakub…
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a…
My comment on There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get — Lobste.rs. [In reply to a comment about burning it down to start from scratch when technical debt becomes overwhelming] In my experience it's so rare for that to…
If you continue to add floors and rooms to a building forever, it will collapse. Software faces no such constraint. The code can always get worse. There can always be a new layer of indirection or a reduction in…
I get asked this rhetorical question a lot, in various forms: Sure, datacenters might use a lot of energy, but you don’t have to use a hosted frontier model to do software development. What if I just run a local…
I’ve toggled a hidden switch in the REPL code and unlocked error messages: gh-148228: Enable error overlays in the REPL by johnslavik · Pull Request #148229 · python/cpython · GitHub (check it out!) Feel invited to play…
You open a blank .py file in your favourite IDE. You have a blank page in front of you. You start writing code. This is how it used to be. And perhaps it’s how it still is for you. This is how I wrote computer programs…
AI companies quietly watermark billions of words a day. Here’s how to apply the same three families of techniques to your own writing—and what real experiments reveal about which watermarks survive copy-paste, editing,…
Using LDA for dimensionality reduction in classification problems The post Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) in Real-Life: Dimensionality Reduction in a Real-Estate Dataset appeared first on Towards Data Science.
JupyterGIS 0.16 adds richer geospatial visualization with collaborative Story Maps, openEO layers, lazy Xarray rendering, new symbology, and support for GeoZarr and GeoPackage. The release also expands real-time…
This is a comprehensive guide to reinforcement learning for LLMs, starting from first principles and building through the policy-gradient algorithms used in modern LLM training. It covers RLHF, verifiable rewards,…
The author solved Sofia Santos’s Gralhix 004 OSINT challenge using a custom geometric pipeline and CUDA GPU acceleration to filter 80.7 million candidate landmass triplets down to 26 locations. The analysis successfully…
Fastaddress is a Python package that keeps the familiar usaddress API while moving its CRF runtime to Rust for much faster US address parsing. It delivers 11.3x higher single-core throughput, scales to 360K+ addresses…
VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully local ElevenLabs alternative for voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription, and audiobook creation in 646 languages.
DBLift is a Python-native database migration toolkit that brings application-style safety to schema changes with validation, dry runs, SQL previews, rollback support, and CI/CD integration.