Eli Bendersky's website
• Eli Bendersky
The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a computer.
It turns out there’s some fairly interesting math behind being able to estimate the size (number of digits) of …
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
The smallest perturbation.
The post In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Micah Lee
• Micah Lee
At the beginning of the month I wrote about how I've been using coding agents to write high quality code securely. In this post I'll show the details of setting up isolated sandboxes for agents, where they can only access a single isolated GitHub repo, and
Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
According to strict SemVer, protobuf's latest Bazel release is from 2022.
John D. Cook
• John
This post provides a couple examples to go along with two earlier posts. The pattern we’re illustrating is families of polynomials pn(x) that each satisfy a differential equation and a three-term recurrence. The differential equations have a second solution qn(x) that is the larger solution with respect to x but the smaller solution with respect to n. In both […]
The post Second solutions first appeared on John D. Cook.Deze vrijdag komt het kabinet met de nieuwe AIVD en MIVD wet. Wat daarin staat weten we niet, maar wel zeker is dat we er heel kritisch naar moeten gaan kijken. De diensten hebben recent de verkeerde mensen laten arresteren en kwamen ook met onjuiste informatie over de inval in Oekraïne. Ook bleek kort geleden dat men slordig om gaat met enorme bakken met data over ons allemaal. Ook het grootschalig afluisterprogramma blijkt nog erg weinig op te leveren, maar wel heel veel mensen af te luisteren, waarbij er ook nog weleens wat dingen gebeuren die mogelijk niet de bedoeling waren.
Construction Physics
• Brian Potter
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the largest crude oil storage facility in the world.
Terence Eden’s Blog
• @edent
This is a charming and zeitgeisty novel which has a strong start and fulfils the promise of its blurb. What if your autonomous vacuum cleaner was sentient and was very sad about your wife's death? It pays obvious homage to the Brave Little Toaster, 100 Acre Woods, Beauty and The Beast, and hundred other what-if-your-toys-came-to-life stories. Along the way we discover what it is like to be a…
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever.
In a statement released today, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said two unnamed suspects from Western Australia, aged 21 and 23, were arrested in connection with a "sophisticated cybercrime syndicate that allegedly created malicious open-source software to rob thousands of global businesses."
The AFP did not name the defendants, but KrebsOnSecurity learned the 21-year-old suspect's real identity in June, and has been communicating with him ever since. This story includes interviews with TeamPCP's self-described spokesperson, and examines clues left behind by the TeamPCP leader that likely led to his undoing.
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On August 29, 1953, the Tokyo Television Acoustic Company was founded. Later in the decade it merged with the Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company, and the combined company took the name TEAC. The combined company specialized in designing and manufacturing tape recorders.
The post TEAC founded in 1953, sort of appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
• Ernie Smith
You can go into the deep end way too easily with a self-hosting project. But is a less-is-more approach possible? Here’s what my attempt to build a “third-place” box taught me.
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
• Ernie Smith
You can go into the deep end way too easily with a self-hosting project. But is a less-is-more approach possible? Here’s what my attempt to build a “third-place” box taught me.
It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a pretty big performance boost.
I've been trying it out on a DGX Spark using these Unsloth quantized models. I'm still exploring the model - so far I've tried the 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S one (producing these pelicans) and the 78.9GB UD-Q2_K_XL (producing these).
My favorite so far was this xhigh reasoning effort one from UD-Q2_K_XL:
Via Hacker News
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, qwen, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, ai-in-china, nvidia-spark
the website of jyn
• jyn
small programs hide coupling
John D. Cook
• Wayne Joubert
AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we should eliminate source code altogether—“source code is the new assembly code”. Others have a different view. Humans sometimes need to […]
The post What is the quality of software that AI writes? first appeared on John D. Cook.What do you wanna bet someone's gonna get promoted for deleting this workaround from the code?
