Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
4th March 2026 I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 family doesn’t turn out to be Qwen’s swan song, seeing as that team has had some very high profile departures in the […]
Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt’s oeuvre Thematically, the work also fits seamlessly into the oeuvre of the then 27-year-old artist, alongside Daniel and Cyrus Before the Idol Bel (1633, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), Simeon’s Song of Praise (1631, Mauritshuis, The Hague), and Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (1630, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals
photo cred: my dad If you ever want a good laugh, ask an academic to explain what they get paid to do, and who pays them to do it. In STEM fields, it works like this: the university pays you to teach, but unless you’re at a liberal arts college, you don’t actually get promoted […]
”It Turns Out”
”It turns out” became a favorite phrase of mine sometime in mid 2006, which, it turns out, was just about the time that I first started tearing through Paul Graham essays. Coincidence? I think not. It’s not that pg is a particularly heavy user of the phrase—I counted just 46 unique instances in a simple […]
In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad
Via WorthPoint The idea of robots literally eating your precious and portable files must have been far more terrifying than it was exciting that Maxell’s 5.25” disks were on some Michelin-rated menu of computer hardware. That could be oil in their glasses but it sure looks like white wine. And what, they’re going to season […]
Apple Introduces MacBook Neo
March 4, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Say hello to MacBook Neo Apple’s all-new MacBook features a durable aluminum design, a stunning 13-inch Liquid Retina display, the power of Apple silicon, and all-day battery life — all for the breakthrough starting price of just $599 CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the […]
MacBook Neo
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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 = […]