The Old Man and the App - Gibberish and Stuff My father-in-law is over 70 years old. He barely understands English. Even if he did, he doesn't read text on screens. He is on his 3rd Facebook account because he forgot his password twice and...
How The Heck Does JPEG Work? (An Interactive Exploration) An interactive exploration of how JPEG works: from the Discrete Cosine Transform to quantization and Huffman coding.
Recovering From Agentic Coding | James O'Reilly Long term AI use is less about quickly delivering value to customers, but more about managing complexity.
Usage Page $$ to Token Amount? WHAT? - Support / Help - Cursor - Community Forum I just noticed Cursor Usage window switched from $$ to Token amount. I use this Usage window closely to keep tabs on my daily/active spending, not from the spending overall page. Today, the $$ amount is replaced by token amount which is completely usele...
Six months at OpenAI This weeks marks six months since I joined OpenAI and I have several things to say
Alexi Gladstone | Explorative Modeling -- Unlocking a Third Pretraining Axis and End-to-End Generation What in the world is Explorative Modeling?
86,359 Queries in One Request: An Outage Where Every Dashboard Was Green The site was restarting itself every twenty minutes. MySQL was idle. Redis was at 7.6% utilisation. The box was at 40% CPU. Every metric said the infrastructure was healthy — and it was.
How I Stop LLMs Drifting In Production Codebases - Scott Spence The problem I care about with LLM coding is drift: one plausible shortcut gets copied, then future sessions start treating it as how the app...
Training Agent Harnesses Like Model Weights | Henry Pan How I trained agent harnesses with a PyTorch-like loop over deterministic LLM inference, and how the gains transfer across models on Terminal Bench 2.0 and SWE-bench.
How can plain Wi-Fi see you move through a wall? Two 5-euro chips, one talking and one listening, and a laptop that can tell which corner of the room you are walking in. Even through a wall. Here is the whole chain, from radio waves to a random forest.
Don't Start a Travel Startup Don't Start a Travel Startup. — 14 Layers for 14 Years of Skift SKIFT · 14 YEARS · AN ILLUSTRATED ESSAY Don't Start a Travel Startup. Start a startup
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
How to Exist Here’s an experiment for a true daredevil. Sit there for a three minutes, following two rules: