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We designed FDM-1, a foundation model for computer use. FDM-1 is trained on videos from a portion of our 11-million-hour screen recording dataset, which we labeled using an inverse dynamics model that we trained. Our video encoder can compress almost … Read more

What kind of a blight­ed soci­ety turns the word “snowflake” into an insult?, I some­times catch myself think­ing, but then again, I’ve nev­er under­stood why “tree­hug­ger” should offend. All irony aside, being known as a per­son who loves nature or … Read more

Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in django.tasks. But don’t expect to phase out Celery, Huey or other preferred solutions just yet. The release notes are quite clear on this: Django handles task creation and queuing, but does … Read more

3 days ago ShareSave Gareth Lewis,Wales political editor and Steffan Messenger,Wales environment correspondent ShareSave Getty Images A first-of-its-kind nuclear power station is to be built on Anglesey, bringing up to 3,000 jobs and billions of pounds of investment. The plant … Read more

Compilers are sophisticated software artifacts that transform a source-language program into a target-language program, usually by taking a series of passes over the input program.  Each compiler pass may perform a transformation, such as closure conversion; it may perform an … Read more

Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s big enough for the other to slide through? Perhaps your instinct is to say “Surely not!” If so, you’re not alone. In the … Read more

I built Recode because I was losing myself in endless scrolling. I felt distracted all day, drained at night, and ashamed of how little I got done. Other screen time apps were too easy to bypass, so I built Recode … Read more

In the spring of 2024, Lighthouse found a vast archive of data on the deep web. It contained thousands of phone numbers and hundreds of thousands of locations from nearly every country in the world. The data came from a … Read more

last week, i released typelex. it may not be a super “serious” project, but it works. it’s covered by 513 tests i’m highly confident in. it is also 100% vibecoded. i may have manually edited a line or two but … Read more

I’ve been spending more of my spare time in recent years studying the Linux source tree to try to build a deeper understanding of how computers work. As a result, I’ve started accumulating patches that fix issues with hardware I … Read more