librarian 
07 October 2026 tech I have been using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash for about a month, heavily, across a dozen projects. It is super capable, and orders of magnitude cheaper than the “frontier” models. When I’m mid-session, if I don’t look … Read more
Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90. A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped … Read more
Jonathan the tortoise, the world’s oldest living land animal, is still chugging along at the ripe age of roughly 194. Now, scientists have discovered some of the secrets to Jonathan’s longevity by sequencing his genome for the first time, according … Read more
Client Challenge JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Please enable JavaScript to proceed. A required part of this site couldn’t load. This may be due to a browser extension, network issues, or browser settings. Please check your connection, disable any … Read more
Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: “mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on for your whole career! OOF!” While my … Read more
Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools Skip to content Meta and Microsoft have commenced a significant reduction in employee utilization of Anthropic’s Claude AI as they pivot towards their own proprietary coding instruments, as reported on … Read more
Introduction One of the recommendations from the Tiger Style document of TigerBeetle .. Centralize control flow. When splitting a large function, try to keep all switch/if statements in the “parent” function, and move non-branchy logic fragments to helper functions. Divide … Read more
Abstract Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds1,2,3,4,5,6, yet their record from the oceans has remained sparse and fragmentary6,7. Here we report the discovery of a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (4,616- to 7,001-m depth), extending about 1,200 km along … Read more
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released. Claude Haiku 5.5 is designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks. It reliably handles quick and repetitive workloads (like summaries, compactions, database queries, and classification requests). It … Read more
Claude Haiku 5.5 is built for high-volume, latency-sensitive work such as classification, routing, extraction, and subagent tasks. It supports adaptive thinking with the effort parameter, a 1M token context window, and up to 128k output tokens. It uses the same … Read more