I have played a little bit with OpenAI's new iteration of GPT, GPT-o1, which performs an initial reasoning step before running the LLM. It is certainly a more capable tool than previous iterations, though still struggling with the most advanced research mathe…
Here's a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can't be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here's a trickier one: how do you fix this mess when the solution threatens a multibillion-dollar industry?…
The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use. Nearly 350 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.
Over the past two years, the United States Government has been
issuing warnings about memory-unsafe programming languages with
increasing urgency. Much of the country’s critical infrastructure relies
on software written in C and C++, languages which are very m…
Picture this: a dimly lit room, the soft glow of multiple monitors, and a solitary figure hunched over a keyboard, fingers flying as they single-handedly save the world through code. Sounds familiar? If you’re thinking, “Hey, that’s the plot of every hacker mo…
This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” It can be read on its own.
.NET Aspire promises to revolutionize cloud-native development for .NET applications, but does it live up to the hype? In this hands-on review, I'll share my experience migrating a real project to Aspire, exploring its strengths, limitations, and potential imp…
When I chose to pursue a career in computer science when I was 15 years old, it was basically on liking math and physics. I want to distance myself from writing posts, essays, etc. Time goes by, and now, one of the things that I value at a mature company or te…