The newly released Three.js r186 release adds native 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and it’s a big deal: splats have been usable in Three.js for a while through community add-ons, but now they’re a first-class citizen of the engine, with a … Read more
The discovery began as a suspected disease. Émer Hickey was gardening with her mother in Kinsale, on the Cork coast of Ireland, when they pulled up a pea plant and found its roots studded with pale, wart-like lumps. It looked … Read more
We asked two web-grounded models for the best products in 380 software categories and kept every URL they retrieved. Of the 7,534 citations that came back, 59.8% point at domains ranked worse than #100,000 in the Tranco top-1M list and … Read more
My father passed recently, and he was twice my age. I am approximately the same age that he was when I was born, and I am now “the old generation” – there’s no one left in the generation above me. … Read more
on February 14, 2024 Most guys my age have “the chat”. The one with your college buddies that only exists to share memes, argue, bully, and occasionally announce that you got a promotion or had a kid. I am like most … Read more
Why The Atlantic and the Moral Panic Machine Are Misdiagnosing the “End of Reading” I had started my last post by promising to go into further detail on a paper I co-authored that explored a pedagogical framework for teaching English … Read more
When people learn I’m a consultant, conversation often proceeds to problems and problem-solving. It’s true that I only get hired well after there is a problem. Typically a problem that has gotten so lousy that nobody wants to deal with … Read more
Me again! I’m so happy you’re all here. Thanks for letting me nerd out in your inbox week after week. 💙 Amanda Look out your window. Can you see three trees? That’s the first question of the 3-30-300 test — … Read more
My father, who died in 1981, was an inexhaustible font of wisdom and wit. I don’t know when he told me this particular three-part rule, but I’ve never forgotten it. I tweeted it three years ago, but people keep asking … Read more
By Susam Pal on 12 Jan 2026 Introduction Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot services have become increasingly sophisticated and popular. These systems are now embedded in search engines, software development tools as … Read more