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Xuan-Son Nguyen’s PR for llama.cpp has significantly sped up the performance of WebAssembly (WASM) by optimizing SIMD instructions. What’s surprising is that 99% of the code in the PR was actually written by DeepSeek-R1. Nguyen’s role was mainly to develop tests and write prompts, which were then run by R1 on chat.deepseek.com. The use of […]
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DeepSeek-R1 is a groundbreaking advancement in AI, featuring open weights and distilled versions that reflect OpenAI O1’s training method. The key highlights are the creation of long chains of reasoning, high-quality reasoning LLM, and large-scale reinforcement learning. DeepSeek-R1 excels in math and reasoning problem-solving by generating thinking tokens to explain its thought process. The model’s […]
Barthelemy’s analysis of chess as a decision tree highlights the complexity and challenge players face in finding the best move to lead them to victory. By reimagining chess as a network of forces represented by interaction graphs, he identified key pieces with high “betweenness centrality” and calculated “fragility scores” to determine their importance in matches. […]
For over 1,000 years, Norwegians have been using crampons to navigate slippery winters. These ice grips with spikes were common in Viking Age graves, used by both humans and horses. Archaeologists find them in cities from the Middle Ages as well. Museum educator Espen Kutschera tested Viking-era crampons on compacted snow and found them effective […]
The author details their experience transforming the UI/UX of the SaaS platform bot.eofferte.eu for Amazon affiliate marketing. They utilized a Go backend, experimented with AI coding assistant Cline, and saw immediate improvements in design and content generation. Noteworthy was the AI’s ability to suggest frameworks, refine designs, and create cohesive content like privacy policies. Prompt […]
In 1947, Rudolf Schenkel observed captive wolves in Switzerland, leading to the popularization of the alpha wolf concept by L. David Mech. However, Mech later discovered that wolves in the wild operated differently, with leadership earned through nurturing and protection, not dominance. This concept of “wild leadership” contrasts sharply with the tech industry’s focus on […]
Railway creates software infrastructure for humans, deploying and scaling docker images or GitHub repos with ease. The company boasts 4,000 teams, including big names like Automattic and Alchemy. Railway offers unique support on Slack, automatically creating channels for customers hitting growth thresholds. Despite initially handmade Slack Connect channels becoming overwhelming, a new, more efficient Slack […]
In this talk, the author discusses the traditional database model as global, shared, and mutable state, challenging developers to consider a new approach. Rather than viewing databases as static collections of facts that can be queried at a specific time, the focus is on processing streams of immutable facts in real-time. The talk introduces Apache […]
The author constructed the Taylorator, a software that can flood the FM broadcast band with Taylor Swift’s music, limiting all radio stations to only play her songs. The FM broadcast band in Canada and the US spans 88 MHz – 108 MHz. Software Defined Radio was used for this project, where signal processing is done […]
The source code for Pebble smartwatches is now available for download, thanks to Google’s efforts to support volunteers who have kept the watches functional since the company closed in 2016. Pebble, initially launched through Kickstarter, had the most funded project at the time. Despite being discontinued eight years ago, Pebble still has a strong fan […]