librarian Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There’s no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an … Read more
Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization Official implementation of LittleBit (NeurIPS 2025) and LittleBit-2 (ICML 2026). LittleBit-2: Maximizing the Spectral Energy Gain in Sub-1-Bit LLMs via Latent Geometry Alignment (ICML 2026)Banseok Lee, Youngmin Kim LittleBit: Ultra Low-Bit Quantization via Latent … Read more
Look at many early DVD releases, and you’ll see interactive menus touted as a selling point. Coming from VHS (or LaserDisc), which had no menus to speak of, this was a genuine improvement. That isn’t to say all DVDs had … Read more
GPT-6 Astra was a jump when it comes to puzzles. Claude Opus 5.5 is a jump when it comes to design. Vibe designing Even local models can make a competent landing page for a shop. Doing interactive visualization is a … Read more
For any withdrawn papers, their README files explain the gap and link to the retracted manuscript. For any updated papers, previously published editions remain accessible through the version notes in their README. October 7, 2026 Withdrawals In “Algebraicity of Weil … Read more
The people holding up the internet | Data Drop sheets.worksLong Story Short Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people. We counted them from the code itself. Your alarm, a boarding pass, a meeting in … Read more
demoscene-recomp demoscene-recomp BBS NODE 1USR HST DS V32Bis 38,4KbpsANSI ≡ ╔════╗ ╔═════╗ ╔═╗ ╔═╗ ╔═══╗ ╔════╗ ╔════╗ ╔═════╗ ╔═╗ ╔═╗ ╔═════╗ ║ ╔═╗╚╗ ║ ╔═══╝ ║ ╚╗╔╝ ║ ╔╝╔═╗╚╗ ╔╝╔═══╝ ╔╝╔═══╝ ║ ╔═══╝ ║ ╚╗ ║ ║ ║ ╔═══╝ ║ … Read more
curl -fsSL https://zerobrew.rs/install | bash The installer updates your shell config. After it finishes, restart your terminal or run the source command it prints. Or via Homebrew: brew install zerobrewhq/zerobrew/zerobrew Update zerobrew If you used the standalone installer, rerun it: … Read more
I wanted to see if LLMs could port the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust. Turns out they can. It cost over $420,000 in tokens to do it, but you could probably have done it for ~$20k (see below) … Read more