Remote hosting for your telescope
Sierra Remote Observatories (SRO) SummarySierra Remote Observatories (SRO) provides hosting services for remotely operated telescopes at an exceptional site in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. SRO has been continuously in operation since 2007, currently hosting more than 174 telescope systems and growing. We are honored to host a roster of clients, which include astronomers from universities […]
Figma Announces IPO
Figma is a design and product development platform—where teams come together to turn ideas into the world’s best digital products and experiences. Today, we’re announcing the pricing of Figma’s initial public offering of 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at a public offering price of $33.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin […]
Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability
Micron has announced three different SSDs aimed at three different markets. The 9650 is a PCIe Gen 6 SSD using TLC (3 bits/cell) flash and built for speed. The 6600 ION is a high-capacity – 122.88 TB – PCIe Gen 5 drive using slower QLC (4 bits/cell) flash. The third drive, the 7600, is another […]
Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows. An easier way to chat with models Ollama’s macOS and Windows now include a way to download and chat with models. Chat with files Ollama’s new app supports file drag and drop, making it easier to reason with text or PDFs. For processing large documents, […]
Vibe code is legacy code
Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you “forget that the code even exists.” Legacy code We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code. Legacy code is universally despised, and for good reason. But why? You have the code, right? Can’t you figure […]
150 years of Hans Christian Andersen
There once was an ugly duckling, so despised by the other birds that he fled the farm to explore the wider world. But because of his very great ugliness he was taunted there too, until one day he caught his image reflected in a pond and he had turned into a beautiful swan. The Ugly […]
The Math Is Haunted
For the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot of Lean. Lean is a programming language, but it is mostly used by mathematicians. That is quite unusual! This is because Lean is designed to formalize mathematics. Lean lets mathematicians treat mathematics as code—break it into structures, theorems and proofs, import each other’s theorems, and […]
Actions reflect your priorities
REFLECTION In 2005, I gave an interview to “60 Minutes” where I sounded a little bit like Scottie Scheffler. I’d won three Super Bowls in my first four years as a starter, and I was explaining to the interviewer how, when I looked at my trophies and Super Bowl rings, I found myself thinking, “there’s […]
Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25B
Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced on Wednesday its intent to acquire identity management and security company CyberArk for $25 billion. The deal, a mix of cash and stock, marks Palo Alto’s entrance into the identity security space, according to a company press release. Palo Alto has been on a shopping spree since Nikesh Arora […]
The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick (1953)
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