UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s
This will give ministers huge powers to restrict the Internet without having to pass new legislation. The powers could be used to restrict access to websites, social media platforms, apps and games of their choosing. Ministers will not have to demonstrate harm to children, effectively ripping up work carried out by Ofcom to assess services […]
Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
Try it out via this demo, or build and run it on your own CPU or GPU. bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (e.g., BitNet b1.58). It offers a suite of optimized kernels, that support fast and lossless inference of 1.58-bit models on CPU and GPU (NPU support will coming next). The […]
Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so I worked on adding (or improving) examples to two of my favourite tools’ man pages. Here they are: the goal: include the most basic examples The goal here was really just to give the […]
The MacBook Neo
Just over a decade ago, reviewing the then-new iPhones 6S, I could tell which way the silicon wind was blowing. Year-over-year, the A9 CPU in the iPhone 6S was 1.6× faster than the A8 in the iPhone 6. Impressive. But what really struck me was comparing the 6S’s GeekBench scores to MacBooks. The A9, in […]
AI Agent Hacks McKinsey
McKinsey & Company — the world’s most prestigious consulting firm — built an internal AI platform called Lilli for its 43,000+ employees. Lilli is a purpose-built system: chat, document analysis, RAG over decades of proprietary research, AI-powered search across 100,000+ internal documents. Launched in 2023, named after the first professional woman hired by the firm […]
AutoKernel: Autoresearch for GPU Kernels
Autoresearch for GPU kernels. Give it any PyTorch model, go to sleep, wake up to optimized Triton kernels. Inspired by @karpathy/autoresearch — which demonstrated autonomous AI agents for LLM training research. AutoKernel applies the same philosophy to GPU kernel optimization: agent modifies one file, runs a fixed evaluation, keeps or reverts, repeats forever. How It […]
C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma
C++26 brings us a small but meaningful cleanup to the language: deprecating ellipsis parameters without a preceding comma. This change, proposed in P3176R1, aims to improve C compatibility, reduce confusion, and pave the way for future language features. The proposal’s name is a playful reference to the Oxford comma – that final comma before “and” […]
Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
Just kidding. Today we should ramp down rhetoric. I thought nobody would take three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass or you are worth $0.003/hr seriously. But it looks like some people do, and you shouldn’t. Social media has been extremely toxic for the last couple months. It’s targeting you with fear and anxiety. If […]
TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization
The future of voice AI hinges on sounding natural, fast, expressive, and free of quirks like hallucinated words or skipped content. Today’s LLM-based TTS systems are forced to choose between speed, quality, and reliability because of a fundamental mismatch between how text and audio are represented inside language models. TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual Alignment) resolves that […]
Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
A programmer’s text editor is their castle Toy software performing a task when the stars align and the bytes hold their breath is one thing. Ingesting whatever freakish data the real world has to offer and handling it gracefully is another. For a while I’ve been dissatisfied with my text editor. I settled on Howl […]