Two Birds with One Tone: I/Q Signals and Fourier Transform
When a new member arrives at the Signal Processing Club, this is what they find at the club gate: I/Q signals. Perhaps a secret plot to keep most people out of the party? Some return from here to try another area (e.g., machine learning, which pays more and is easier to understand but less interesting […]
Htmx and URL State Management
When you move from React to HTMX, you trade complex state management for server-side simplicity. But you still need to handle filters, sorting, pagination, and search. Where does that state live now? The answer is surprisingly elegant: in the URL itself. By treating URL parameters as your single source of truth, you get bookmarkable, shareable […]
Poor child process management in Rust terminal apps leads to terminal corruption
When a terminal application that spawns child processes doesn’t exit cleanly after a Ctrl+C, the user is left with a corrupted terminal. Instead of a clean prompt, you get garbled output and a non-functional shell. This post covers how to solve these issues, with examples from the Moose CLI (for the PR that fixed many […]
Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer’s account without warning, rejects appeal
Recently, we reported on LibreOffice, accusing Microsoft of intentionally using complex file formats as a tactic to lock in users to Microsoft Office, hindering open source alternatives like LibreOffice. Now, Microsoft has banned LibreOffice developer, Mike Kaganski, from using its services, citing an “activity that violates [its] Services Agreement”. According to Mike, this happened last […]
Shunsaku Tamiya, former president and chairman of Tamiya, Inc., has died
Shunsaku Tamiya, former president and chairman of Tamiya, Inc., passed away on July 18. His death was announced on July 21, with funeral services attended by close family and friends. Mr Tamiya led the transformation of Tamiya into a world-renowned manufacturer of high-precision plastic model kits, radio control vehicles, and motorized Mini 4WD racers. He […]
Supervised Fine Tuning on Curated Data is Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:Behavior Cloning (BC) on curated (or filtered) data is the predominant paradigm for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of large language models; as well as for imitation learning of control policies. Here, we draw on a connection between this successful strategy and the theory and practice of finding optimal policies via Reinforcement Learning (RL). Building on existing […]
More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves
Despite tighter restrictions on antibiotics used in Canadian beekeeping, honey bee death rates are still rising. A new study led by University of Guelph researchers, published in Nature Sustainability, is the first large-scale project to assess antibiotic usage trends and their impact on honey bee health in Canada. The withdrawal of antibiotics, following recent regulation changes, […]
Maru OS – Your phone is your PC
The only PC you need is the one in your pocket. Maru takes personal computing one step closer to closed-loop. Your hardware’s capabilities are shared across your mobile device and desktop so you don’t have to context-switch around so much. Say goodbye to coordinating your work amongst dozens of different devices. sd_storage Shared storage SD […]
A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup
29 Jul 2025 3 min read Tereza Pultarova is a London-based journalist specializing in aerospace and defense technologies. Through this door is the world’s first maritime quantum dual gravimeter, part of Q-CTRL’s assured navigation solution for when GPS is unavailable or untrusted. A novel quantum sensor that measures gravity changes by detecting variations in the […]
The half-life of tech skills
How Singapore and the Netherlands are fighting tech talent’s vanishing half-life. of tech talent. The skills that made you hireable today will be half-obsolete by 2027. Two small nations are leading the fight against this new form of economic entropy. THIRTY MONTHS. That is how long it takes for half of a software developer’s hard-won […]