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o1/o3 points the way to AGI, which is AI that can complete tasks; it may take longer for most companies to adopt them than you might think — just look at digital advertising.

Specificity in data selection can improve AI output quality and compliance.

Schiit Happened: The Story of the World’s Most Improbable Start-Up – Page 357. Bridging the Gap – good article- Okay, enough about business. Let’s take a look at a much bigg…

Schiit should take a good look at the high end DSLR market, and come up with a competitor for Nikon and Canon. One that keeps accurate time too. Then, after cameras, microwaves and...

A look back at Neil Young's doomed hi-res audio player on its 10th anniversary

The story of Zellij and its creation.

Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.[1][2] Prior to this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September, when cohorts of university students would gain access to it for the first time. The periodic flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL began their Usenet gateway service in March 1994, leading to a constant stream of new users.[3] Hence, from the early Usenet hobbyist point of view, the influx of new users that began in September 1993 appeared to be endless.

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In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.

Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obs…

If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Seiya Nuda]. An appendix covers how to write your own operating system for RISC-V in a…

Write your first operating system from scratch, in 1K LoC.

It had one key killer feature: "embedding Node.js and Chromium to provide a powerful desktop runtime for web technologies." But is that worth a world of bloated desktop apps?

Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 are hard to find, transport, and operate, so you don’t see many retrocomputer enthusiasts with an …

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One day, after a particularly arduous coding session with Rust, I decided to vent my frustrations with this language on pen and paper (or keyboard and pixel?). My rant ended up going viral. The…

Pondering the screen saver, a cultural artifact which means one of two things: Offbeat graphics and screens that automatically go dark. The difference matters.

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Chris Krycho, a person I really respect, is learning Racket to build programming languages. Racket is generally slotted as a language to build languages. The popular books focus on Racket innovations related to constructing Domain Specific Languages. This include hygienic macros, the Racket loading and evaluation phases and the module system. While it is uniquely suited for creating languages 1, Racket is also a research vehicle for a large body of programming language research.

What makes Python the BASIC of today?

I can’t even browse LinkedIn without seeing some product manager hype about agents coming “just around the corner”. And before you jump into the comment’s section, I am not biased. I’ve worked with l

SteamOS is spreading beyond Valve's hardware. That could threaten Microsoft's hold on PC gaming...or even Windows' hold on the PC market.

Moravec's paradox is the observation in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. The principle was articulated in the 1980s by Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, Marvin Minsky, and others. Moravec wrote in 1988: "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility".[1]

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

While CES 2025 showcased many new exciting products, it also introduced plenty of gadgets with unnecessary waste, cost, and surveillance.