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5 October 2026 · 2 min We have many ways to ensure software quality. Unit testing. Fuzz testing. Integration testing. And so forth. I’d like to propose a method that was unthinkable before: ephemeral testing. (Ephemeral is a fancy word … Read more
Writing What changes when a tool doesn’t have to pay for itself October 5, 2026 3 minute read Years ago, if an app annoyed me, I shrugged and dealt with it. I could sometimes have fixed it or built my … Read more
example.com is a reserved domain name set aside by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for documentation purposes. It has been available as an example URL for developers and writers since the late nineties. While the overall messaging of the … Read more
Saturday 3 Oct 2026 It’s finally time I go crawling back to Node! I’ve been using Node heavily this month on a SvelteKit client project. When did Node get so good‽ Deno has been my go-to runtime for so long … Read more
How this works Routes are computed in your browser over 160,000 street segments, using USGS 1 m lidar elevation and the Overture / OpenStreetMap street graph. The slider runs along the whole trade-off between distance and climbing: every route that nothing … Read more
Samip Dahal, Bishwas Mandal, Serdar Gülbahar, Akshay Vegesna October 2026Correspondence to [email protected]·Code·Cite Copy @misc{dahal2026backprop, title = {Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation}, author = {Dahal, Samip and Mandal, Bishwas and G{“u}lbahar, Serdar and Vegesna, Akshay}, year = {2026}, url = {https://qlabs.sh/research/dust} … Read more
Receive monthly updates via our RSS feed, or by signing up to our monthly newsletter. September 2026 We’re disheartened to see a lot of the organization for direct action done on platforms that spy on its users, we’ve often talked … Read more
We’re all used to two types of magnet. The common one, the fridge magnet, is ferromagnetic — its atomic magnets all point the same way (up or down), adding their magnetic effects. The less well known one, the antiferromagnet (AF), … Read more
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The Future of Mathematics 5 October, 2026 in guest blog, math.HO, opinion | by Terence Tao [This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] … Read more