LLMs Predict My Coffee
Coding, math, whatever. Can LLMs predict the outcomes of physical experiments? Suppose I pour 8 oz (226.8 g) of boiling water into a ceramic coffee mug that weighs 1.25 lb (0.57 kg). The ambient air is still and 20 degrees Celsius. The cup starts at room temperature. Give me an equation for the temperature of […]
Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts
The democratization and subsequent ubiquity of 3D printers have enabled almost any home enthusiast to produce utilities and products previously only attainable to large factories with big equipment. ”You can 3D print those nowadays” has become a common utterance. Even still, it’s safe to say that our bingo cards did not predict a techie making […]
Lent and Lisp
Next post Previous post After writing last week’s post about the start of Ramadan and Chinese New Year, I expected to hear from people asking why I didn’t include the further coincidence of Ash Wednesday. I was surprised that the only such feedback I got was an email from TJ Luoma. It makes sense that […]
Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT
02 WHIP Witty House Infrastructure Processor PV — Perl Integration First tools: Victron Modbus + ECS BMS — all in Perl $ ecs_bms_tool -range 1-16 # query all battery modules $ ecs_bms_tool -get cell_voltage -get cell_temperature $ ecs_bms_tool -otype json # JSON for pipeline integration $ Wmodbus discover 192.168.2.0/24 # find Modbus devices on network […]
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
To understand AI capabilities across these cognitive abilities, we propose a three-stage evaluation protocol that benchmarks system performance in relation to human capabilities: Evaluate AI systems across a broad suite of cognitive tasks covering each ability, using held-out test sets to prevent data contamination Collect human baselines for the same tasks from a demographically representative […]
OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and what was said was indicative of need for focus and urgency. I read it as mild panic stations. Second, step back enough and a […]
Rob Pike’s 5 Rules of Programming
Rob Pike’s 5 Rules of Programming Rule 1. You can’t tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don’t try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you’ve proven that’s where the bottleneck is. Rule 2. Measure. Don’t tune for speed until you’ve measured, […]
Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier
Pleonasm I edited the original to disambiguate. Does the free trial provide a ”fixed usage cap” that resets at the start of each monthly billing cycle? What occurs if the customer is on an annual plan? An annual ”Duo” plan?What is the amount of the ”fixed usage cap” for each plan type? The fixed usage […]
Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
🎤 Stem separation Vocals are isolated from instrumentals using the UVR Karaoke model or Demucs. Guide vocal volume is adjustable. 📝 Word-level lyrics WhisperX transcribes and aligns every word to the audio. Existing lyrics from LRCLIB are used when available. 🎯 Pitch scoring Sing into your mic and get scored in real-time. Star ratings and […]
Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead
Location: RemoteType: Full-time Ndea is building AGI systems that depend on search guidance. We’re hiring hands-on researchers/engineers to drive our deep learning effort in search guidance, training models to make structured search more efficient and reliable. This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to operate at the leading edge of neuro-symbolic AI, designing, […]