When I was researching the mess related tostrange and poorly documented CPUID bitsin theAthlon MP and XP processors, I had to swap a lot of CPUs. This was uneventful in most cases… but only most. When I removed the heatsink from one unlucky Athlon XP, the processor looked like this: And this is what the … Devamını oku

I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my spare time I like to unwind by… watching interviews where authors talk about their writing process. It’s a sickness. Help me. One of the key things I’ve learned is this: there’s no real blueprint. I … Devamını oku

I’m thinking of quieter computing. Everything these days is glass and refresh rates, is clouds and cloud-shapes, is brought to you in feeds and in troughs. It’s hard not to pine for a forested internet, an imagined one of searching and finding, of patient and aimless wandering. I think of raising the torch overhead to … Devamını oku

Figmimic is a bookmarklet that captures the current web page and copies it to your clipboard as Figma frames. Pasted frames are editable, not flat screenshots. Open Figma and paste it in. It works on any page you can see in your browser — including dashboards, admin panels, and apps behind authentication walls that other … Devamını oku

We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-specific hazards with … Devamını oku

Hugo Gernsback – A Concise Biography Being a big fan ofHugo Gernsback’stechnical work through his many electronics-related publications (The Electrical Experimenter, Radio Amateur News, Radio News, Radio-Craft, Short-Wave Craft, Radio-Electronics, etc.), I decided to task a couple of different AI models with conducting a deep-dive research project on all aspects of his background – family, … Devamını oku

You may have heard of the speech synthesis company ElevenLabs. Recently a friend mentioned they knew someone who worked at a company calledTwelveLabs that does AI for video (it feels like it must have been intended to play on the fact that ElevenLabs does audio, but I don’t know for sure). Jokingly, I googled “thirteenlabs” … Devamını oku