I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaining to colleagues why Baltimore isn’t actually like The Wire. And second: trying not to talk about AI. Here I’m going to break both of … Devamını oku
Count Binface, the self-styled intergalactic space warrior, has received nearly 10,000 votes in the Clacton by-election, his best performance yet. The much-photographed election veteran was the main rival to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in an election race caused by Farage resigning, only to run again – whichsparked a mass boycott by the other main … Devamını oku
Wayland support has been one of the harder parts of Linux remote desktop. RustDesk can now providetrue unattended access on Wayland, without requiring someone at the remote machine to approve every session.Multi-monitor setups are supported as well. After the initial setup, you can connect even when no one is at the remote machine — including … Devamını oku
This repository contains FP8-quantized model weights and configuration files for the post-trained model in the Hugging Face Transformers format. These artifacts are compatible with Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, TokenSpeed, etc. The quantization method is fine-grained fp8 quantization with block size of 128, and its performance metrics are nearly identical to those of the original … Devamını oku
Toast 1, our first specialised search agent, is available today. It provides frontier search quality, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10× cheaper and 12× faster. It performs best with Mixedbread Search, but it can work with any search backend. Today, frontier models are now able to perform … Devamını oku
12 recent entriesThe road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded ordersThere are two kinds of theoremsThe road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coinsSeven books I keep close because I love themThe road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game“Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years laterThe road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even … Devamını oku
Being an expert in one field doesn’t make you an expert in all fields.Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, Situational Awareness, provided a $20 billion demonstration this week. His claim to fame was being part of OpenAI’s Superalignment team before being fired over alleged leaks (which he disputes) and then publishing an essay in 2024 aboutthe imminence … Devamını oku
A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily subsidize home batteries, part of a larger effort to make use of the huge volumes of solar energy that were going to waste. On Friday, officials announced that more than 500,000 batteries had been installed under the plan, helping to slash … Devamını oku
Using LLMs to classify products, search queries, etc is by now boring. Yet it can still be difficult to constrains the LLM’s output to the legal vocabulary of brands, colors, categories, etc your system allows. In the Wayfair WANDS e-commerce dataset, for example, you want to classify a query like “wood coffee table” into its … Devamını oku
We tested the same app with and without a CPU limit. Same code, same CPU request, same load. The only difference was the limit. Here is what we measured — and how to check it on your own cluster. In this analysis:1. Requests vs limits·2. How throttling works·3. CFS fair sharing·4. The worst case·5. What … Devamını oku