A Small Web July | small cypress Home Blog 29 Jun, 2025 I am putting this out into the ether to see if anyone wants to join me, in any capacity, in some kind of accountability structure (following each others … Read more
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI systems is, however, ushering in a mass of … Read more
Small programs are interesting. But I’m also interested in small programming languages. Generally speaking, the smaller the language, the less expressive it is. One of the most well-known, least expressive languages is assembly. Assembly languages are very syntactically and conceptually … Read more
Building a word game forced us to solve a measurement problem: how do you rank 40+ ways to associate any given word down to exactly 17 playable choices? We discovered that combining human-curated thesauri, book cataloging systems, and carefully constrained … Read more
15 May 2025 Share this article If you asked someone in 2018 what a “small model” was, they’d probably say something with a few million parameters that ran on a Raspberry Pi or your phone. Fast-forward to today, and we’re … Read more
Ann is a minimal ActivityPub-based decentralised alternative social media built around Web Annotations. An annotation can be thought of as a comment, recommendation or a like on any piece of content. Ann allows you to store your annotations, send annotations … Read more
Old technology is any tech that’s, well… old. Small technology is any tech that has a small footprint: doesn’t require a powerful machine to run, doesn’t have a lot of bloat, doesn’t have anti-features like spyware and tracking. Technology that … Read more
As the Trump administration advances a trade war with global consequences, the Kun Shoulder Rest factory in the Canadian capital does not immediately stand out as the front line. A family-owned business that operates out of a labyrinthine Victorian home … Read more
“One of the more similar environments to the ISS was in the isolation dorms on the UCSD campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. All surfaces were continuously sterilized, so that microbial signatures would be erased by the time another person would … Read more
Why does Ohtani Shohei, a Japanese baseball star, pick up litter after games? Why do Japanese people queue so politely, and wait for green lights before crossing the road? Why, in short, is Japan so orderly? Some say the answer … Read more