We’re starting to leave the territory where you’d test an LLM by e.g. “create an svg of pelican on a bicycle”. As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked … Devamını oku
Methods & Notes I compared two prominent vocabulary lists for English learners: the General Service List (GSL, 1953; 2,284 words) and the New General Service List (NGSL 1.2, 2023; 2,809 words). I labeled words appearing on both lists as “remained” (1,656), words only on the 1953 list as “removed” (628), and words only on the … Devamını oku
A Rant About “Technology” In an interesting and favorable notice of Changing Planes (which you can find elsewhere on the site, in Spanish and English), the Argentinean reviewer asserts that since Le Guin isn’t a hard science fiction writer, “technology is carefully avoided.” I stuck a footnote onto this in my translation of the article … Devamını oku
Research F* is an active topic of research, both in the programming languages and formal methods community, as well as from an application perspective in the security and systems communities. We list a few of them below, with full citations to these papers available in this bibliography . If you would like your paper included … Devamını oku
On 20 June 2006 we incorporated RISC OS Open Ltd with one slightly mad ambition: to take a proprietary operating system and open it up to anyone who fancied helping. Twenty years on, that has largely happened, and the RISC OS of today is in far better health than the one we inherited. To mark … Devamını oku
Search is becoming an answer, not just a list of links. This is an ongoing measurement of how often real small and mid-sized businesses are named when an AI assistant answers a buying-intent question about their category, and of what their own websites do or fail to do to earn that mention. Built from 531 … Devamını oku
Wikipedia : Wikipedia Signpost/2026-08-02/News and notes Add languages Add links Project page Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Get shortened URL Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Appearance move … Devamını oku
One line of evidence that AI might lead to explosive economic growth is the precedent set by the Industrial Revolution. For hundreds of years — 1252 to 1652, to be precise — the compound annual growth rate of per capita real GDP in the UK was around 0.07%. It then began to accelerate, settling into … Devamını oku
Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird , Microsoft Edge for Business , and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, and a dedicated security hardening pass. The complete changelog is on the GitHub release page . Thunderbird policy type Mozilla Thunderbird can now be … Devamını oku
Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Two figures related to the art of astronomy from a manuscript of the Ars notoria (NLI Ms. Yah. Var. 34), ca. 1550–1600. Each contains subordinate figures to be contemplated — while reciting accompanying prayers (orations) — in a prescribed sequence over time and with … Devamını oku