The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp
Last year, hundreds of players inhabited a spaceship on the run, scrambling to keep one step ahead of the enemy. The sci-fi larp Odysseus was inspired by Battlestar Galactica’s “33“, but where that episode only lasted 45 minutes, Odysseus’ players worked, fought, ate, and slept in-game for fifty non-stop hours. Odysseus is widely recognised as […]
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
The war against Iran is causing an air and shipping jam, but it will likely have little effect on the global technology market unless the conflict widens significantly, according to analysts. “UAE is a major distribution hub for many products, including tech, in the region and since both airspace and likely port traffic are closed […]
Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation
Copy from unsloth import FastLanguageModel import torch from datasets import load_dataset from trl import SFTTrainer, SFTConfig max_seq_length = 2048 # start small; scale up after it works # Example dataset (replace with yours). Needs a ”text” column. url = ”https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/OIG/resolve/main/unified_chip2.jsonl” dataset = load_dataset(”json”, data_files={”train”: url}, split=”train”) model, tokenizer = FastLanguageModel.from_pretrained( model_name = ”Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B”, max_seq_length = […]
Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring
If you’re into engineering and building physical products, you probably know the sourcing grind. You email a few suppliers, wait days for quotes, answer the same questions twice (or ten times). Track everything in spreadsheets, deal with logistics, revisions, customs (you gotta love new tariffs every week), forms, reports and surprising delays. It’s expensive, slow, […]
Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program
MOSS is a pixel editor with brushes that feel alive. Paint with tools that blend, spread, drip, grow, and glitch — each one behaving differently and each one completely customizable. Every cell of the MOSS canvas is a little piece of data that can be manipulated by a brush. Colors accumulate, patterns emerge, and happy […]
From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)
How do we assess color accuracy between different images? Unfortunately, the commonly used RGB color space is not perceptually uniform, which means that equal changes in RGB values do not correspond to equal perceived changes in color. This inconsistency can lead to inaccuracies in color reproduction across various devices. The Lab color space, on the […]
What canceled my Go context?
How Go 1.20’s WithCancelCause and Go 1.21’s WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path. I’ve spent way more hours than I’d like to admit debugging context canceled and context deadline exceeded errors. These errors usually tell you that a […]
RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
7.1. Client-Facing Server Upon receiving an ”encrypted_client_hello” extension in an initial ClientHello, the client-facing server determines if it will accept ECH prior to negotiating any other TLS parameters. Note that successfully decrypting the extension will result in a new ClientHello to process, so even the client’s TLS version preferences may have changed.¶ First, the server […]
Better JIT for Postgres
A lightweight JIT compilation provider for PostgreSQL that adds three alternative JIT backends – sljit, AsmJit and MIR – delivering faster compilation and competitive query execution across PostgreSQL 14–18. JIT compilation was introduced in Postgres 11 in 2018. It solves a problem of Postgres having to interpret expressions and use inefficient per-row loops in run-time […]
A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
A CPU that runs entirely on GPU — registers, memory, flags, and program counter are all tensors.Every ALU operation is a trained neural network.Addition uses Kogge-Stone carry-lookahead. Multiplication uses a learned byte-pair lookup table.Bitwise ops use neural truth tables. Shifts use attention-based bit routing. No hardcoded arithmetic. Quick Start pip install -e ”.[dev]” # Run […]