BlogAbout Robotarm · SO-101 · September 2026 Rob Bercik · September 25, 2026 figure 1: My very primitive workspace and robot, webcam at the top of the frame pointing down. I don’t do robots. I don’t do blogs. But here … Read more
Aug 10, 2026 (3162 words) Introduction An RTL performance erratum in the Apple M3 Neural Engine throttles DRAM weight streaming throughput down to 17–19 GB/s from the nominal 45–60 GB/s, whenever the total weight size is an integer multiple of … Read more
Research, though, suggests there’s something to be said for reaching out to touch the trees, shrubs and soil I usually walk past. Mira Grönroos, an ecologist and nature-health researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, asked people to rub their hands with … Read more
Essential Resources for Getting Started with AT Protocol Originally posted on 25 Aug 2026 A number of times now, I’ve shared links with personal software engineering friends who I’m trying to convince to explore the AT Protocol. Rather than just … Read more
Annals of Inquiry G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost Illustration by Jackson Gibbs Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story Around two years ago, Shachar Maidenbaum, a neuroscientist who studies spatial navigation at Ben-Gurion University, … Read more
I’ve been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But… I … Read more
I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few … Read more
Tiny engine, immense model. Run GLM-5.2 (744B-parameter MoE) on a consumer machine with ~25 GB of RAM — in pure C, with zero dependencies, by streaming experts from disk. $ ./coli chat 🐦 colibrì v1.0 — GLM-5.2 · 744B MoE … Read more
TL;DR: I made twenty five different designs using only Perlin flow fields, a simple generative algorithm. Scroll down to see the results. All Processing code for this article, along with images and animated GIFs, can be found on Github In … Read more
I love networking, a lot. So much so that I’ve run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc. However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still remain on … Read more