Nvidia Just Paid $20B for a Company That Missed Its Revenue Target by 75%
If you’ve heard “Grok” thrown around lately, you’re probably thinking of Elon’s chatbot from xAI. We’re not talking about that one. That model isn’t particularly good, but its whole value prop is being politically incorrect so you can get it to say edgy things. The company Nvidia bought is Groq (with a Q). Totally different […]
We Automated Federal Retirements
Imagine retiring after a lifetime of public service — as a veteran, air traffic controller, or first responder — only to wait six months in financial limbo because a decades-old government process can’t handle your application. That was the reality for thousands of federal retirees every year since the 60’s, having to apply for retirement […]
NMH BASIC
T3X.ORG nmhbasic/index Download: nmhbas23c.zip (version 1.2, 74KB) | nmhbas25c.zip (version 2.1, 90KB) | man page This is a small BASIC interpreter that I wrote in the early 1990s. For some reason I think it is one of the coolest programs I have ever written. Maybe because it is just a bit under 5K bytes large and still does something useful. Maybe […]
Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
This software project accompanies the research paper: Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second by Lars Mescheder, Wei Dong, Shiwei Li, Xuyang Bai, Marcel Santos, Peiyun Hu, Bruno Lecouat, Mingmin Zhen, Amaël Delaunoy, Tian Fang, Yanghai Tsin, Stephan Richter and Vladlen Koltun. We present SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a […]
OrangePi 6 Plus Review
So after our previous reviews (that started mainly around RISC-V since we are really interested in this new architecture) of SBC, we continue to review what’s available these days in the world of small, versatile computers. Today this is going to be about the OrangePi 6 Plus, following our previous review of the OrangePi 5 […]
Cursed Bundler: Using go get to install Ruby Gems
Here’s a thought experiment. What if Ruby had require ”github.com/rails/rails” and you used go get to fetch it? Set GOPATH to a Ruby load path, and Go’s module fetcher becomes your transport layer. The Go team did not intend this. But it works. Consider this a gift from the Ghost of Package Managers Yet to […]
Always bet on text (2014)
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I Think about Kubernetes
Kubernetes is most often described as a container orchestration tool, but after you’ve spent some time with it, that mental model doesn’t always feel like the most useful way to think about what’s happening. In many cases for me Kubernetes feels less like an orchestrator and more like a platform where you declare the desired […]
Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways
Tkinter + OpenGL desktop app for training and viewing 3D Gaussian splats from casual captures. It wraps COLMAP for camera poses, uses PyTorch + gsplat for training, and stores everything in a reproducible cache tree so scenes can be resumed later. What it does nullsplats_720p30_h265_under10MB_noaudio.mp4 Ingest a video or image folder, extract and score frames, […]
Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop ”act of kindness”
26th December 2025 Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. F you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have […]