The Origins of APL (1974) [video]
86Box v5.3
December 21, 2025 – written by richardg867 This is the December 2025 update to 86Box, bringing in performance improvements, bugfixes and some new hardware for the holidays. Main features Several small and localized performance improvements have been made to emulation performance, including a new C runtime library for Windows host systems, optimizations to the “new” […]
ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16
Running an ONNX model in ONNX RunTime (ORT) with the CoreMLExecutionProvider may change the predictions your model makes implicitly and you may observe differences when running with PyTorch on MPS or ONNX on CPU. This is because the default arguments ORT uses when converting your model to CoreML will cast the model to FP16. The […]
Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
Disneyland Paris saw a groundbreaking moment today, where Bruce Vaughn, President and Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Imagineering, and Natacha Rafalski, Présidente of Disneyland Paris, introduced a next-generation robotic character representing Olaf, the beloved snowman from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen. This debut marks a new chapter in Disney character innovation, one where technology, storytelling, and collaboration […]
The gift card accountability sink
Programming note: Merry Christmas! There will likely be another Bits about Money after the holiday but before New Year. Bits about Money is supported by our readers. If your education budget or business can underwrite the coming year of public goods in financial-infrastructure education, commentary, and policy analysis, please consider supporting it. I’m told this […]
A Guide to Local Coding Models
[Edit 1] This article has been edited after initial release for clarity. Both the tl;dr and the end section have added information. [Edit 2] This hypothesis was actually wrong and thank you to everyone who commented! Here’s a full explanation of where I went wrong. I want to address this mistake as I realize it […]
More on whether useful quantum computing is ”imminent”
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is imminent. Why have you reversed yourself?? I appreciated the friend of mine who paraphrased this as follows: “A decade ago you said you were […]
Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
Memory Safe No garbage collector, no manual memory management. A work in progress, though. Simple Syntax Familiar syntax inspired by various programming languages. If you know one, you’ll feel at home with Rue. Fast Compilation Direct compilation to native code.
Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone
Framing our phones as glossy portraits of the world comes at a cost: we spend more time gazing instead of gaining utility. Photo by Mihail Ilchov / Unsplash ”Is the picture going to appear in black & white?” asks a stand-byer I’ve asked to take a photo of myself & family by a pond. ”No.” […]
Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
19 hours ago ShareSave ShareSave BBC Ruth Clegg,Health and wellbeing reporterand Holly Jennings ”It’s like a switch that goes on and you’re instantly starving.” Tanya Hall has tried to stop taking weight loss medication multiple times. But every time she stops the injections, the food noise comes back. Loudly. Weight loss jabs, or GLP-1s, have […]