Here’s a story from 30 years ago that would make no sense today. It’s 1992. Pearl Jam’s debut albumTenis selling well. But then MTV puts the music video for their song “Jeremy” in heavy rotation, and the band rockets into superstardom—shows suddenly sold out, fans smashing record store windows, the whole shebang. That’s familiar enough, … Devamını oku
Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain regions that normally help them stay focused and weigh longer-term goals. When people watch a short video they enjoy enough to finish, two brain regions … Devamını oku
I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA. In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one … Devamını oku
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML. Update2026-08-20: I originally built this page in one hour duringHTML Day 2026to write and celebrate HTML, but I’ve since made some edits to better express and … Devamını oku
I owe an apology to every English teacher I ever had. I always assumed that so-called “great” literature was a hoax, a punishment inflicted upon adolescents for the crime of being young. These books did not have anything special about them, and covering up that fact was simply a make-work exercise for former English majors, … Devamını oku
On August 20, 2026, a compromised release of the popular Rust cratearrayrefappeared on crates.io. Version 0.3.10 added a dependency on a typosquatted crate calledproc-macro1, whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary while a project compiles. The code runs at build time, so simply compiling a project that pulled the bad versions is enough … Devamını oku
TL;DR:I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The biggest improvements came from finding the right MIDI representation, cleaning the training data aggressively, and adding DPO post-training. Almost a year ago, I started tinkering with an idea: connect my MIDI piano to my phone, play … Devamını oku
AI didn’t erase the junior’s value. It increased it. “AI ate the junior’s marginal value”. This is the feedback I gotfrom the last post on this topic. According to this argument, the work of a junior engineer goes something like this: If the process above is what happens in practice, why do we need a … Devamını oku
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my PC and phone at the same time. Normally the PC takes priority playing audio, with my phone being able to play audio when nothing is playing on the PC. Usually I listen … Devamını oku
It seems that no matter what you do, somebody will get offended. Every Windows 95 box has an anti-piracy hologram on the side. The photographer chose his infant son as his model, since the human face is very hard to copy accurately. The baby sits next to a computer, and as you turn the hologram, … Devamını oku