Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks
Machine learning turns on one simple trick: Split your data into training and test sets. Anything goes on the training set; rank the models on the test set. Let the model builders compete. Call this a benchmark. Machine learning researchers cherish a good tradition of lamenting the shortcomings of machine learning benchmarks. Critics argue that […]
Claude March 2026 usage promotion
We’re offering a limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for Claude users outside 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT. This promotion is available for Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans. Enterprise plans are not included in this promotion. What is the promotion? From March 13, 2026 through March 27, 2026, your five-hour usage is doubled […]
Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5
So where has the last six months gone? I was planning on getting images done for Fedora 44 Beta but I was unwell and busy and ran out of time. So what better time to get them out than Pi Day!. So compared to the last image what do we have now? Quite a lot […]
Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
Every Hacker News item since 2006, live-updated every 5 minutes What is it? This dataset contains the complete Hacker News archive: every story, comment, Ask HN, Show HN, job posting, and poll ever submitted to the site. Hacker News is one of the longest-running and most influential technology communities on the internet, operated by Y […]
Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories
Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories 13 March, 2026 in advertising, math.GR | Tags: competition, Equational Theory Project, SAIR | by Terence Tao Mathematical research traditionally involves a small number of professional mathematicians working closely on difficult problems. However, I have long believed that there is a complementary way to do mathematics, in which one works […]
Torturing Rustc by Emulating HKTs
Rust does not have HKTs, kinda # Higher kinded types, or HKTs, is the notion that generics can have generics. That is, in something like struct Foo(T);, T would be any specific type that hypothetically accepts one generic type. In that sense, T is a type constructor that has an arity of one that accepts […]
Optimizing Content for Agents
Just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt was It’s all dumb abstractions that AI doesn’t need because AIs are as smart as humans so they can just use what was already there, which is APIs LLMs.txt is indeed useless, but that’s the only thing correct in this statement. I’m here once again being rage […]
An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills
Reddit user ”Ok_Lingonberry3296” has posted the results of an extensive investigation into the companies that are pushing US state legislatures to enact age-verification bills. I’ve been pulling public records on the wave of ”age verification” bills moving through US state legislatures. IRS 990 filings, Senate lobbying disclosures, state ethics databases, campaign finance records, corporate registries, […]
(Media over QUIC) on a Boat
published 2/26/2026 Saronic posted a blog about how they’ve been using MoQ for years. Go read it. I’m stoked because I can finally talk about nautical nonsense. Bandwidth Constrained Imagine this: You’re on a boat, man. You’re going fast, man. You’ve got 9 cameras and StarLink is expensive, man. obligatory It’s not sustainable to constantly […]
Our Experience with I-Ready
When my son was in first grade, he came home from school in tears saying that he hated math. My wife and I are both engineers, so this was the sort of all-hands-on-deck shock that demanded our immediate attention. Before this my son had loved math. He would demand that we challenge him with math […]