My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

“Why AGI Will Not Happen” by Tim Dettmers. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w... This essay is worth reading. Discusses diminishing returns (and risks) of scaling. The contrast between West and East: “Winner takes all” approach of building the biggest thing vs a long-term focus on practicality.

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research: Whose ideas are you presenting as your own? (Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)

Man, Codeberg feels like pre-AI GitHub. So refreshing to use. 😌

We are on a brink of an unprecedented revolution in science that will change forever how science is done and what it means to be a scientist! Instead of having to do all our writing, reading and thinking ourselves, we will now be able to spend all our time on debunking wrong AI-generated papers!

All I want for Christmas is for AI agents to use the XDG Base Directory specification instead of polluting my home directory.

yayyy matt is doing Advent of Compiler Optimizations, go watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLjZ...

If you ever wanted a textbook-style guide to memory safety bugs, undefined behavior, exploit mitigations, side channels, etc. llsoftsec.github.io/llsoftsecbook/

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

I know Typst is a worthy successor to LaTeX as it's already inherited one of its most important features: a confusingly pronounced name that no native English speaker will get right on first try

Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE

Are conference reviewers harsher when they have a submission of their own? Post from @wicko3.bsky.social johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/a...

“Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns..”

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

CHATGPT IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE AN “OPERATING SYSTEM”, CALL IT THAT ONE MORE TIME AND I WILL STAB YOU

I find this site mesmerizing. It is silent though - the winds outside are not. earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

i hear rumors that i abuse my scientific presentations to talk about Politics so let me set the record straight and repost my video about Israels war crimes in the Gaza Strip 🇵🇸

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website (with a lot of help from other folks who work on the website) git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

"we need a manhattan project for AI" no what we really need is a manhattan project for porting every math TeX package to Typst (and please start with mathpartir)

Protect trans kids.

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

What is a Complex System, After All? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“These results suggest that physical activity levels are directly influenced by the built environment and not simply a product of personal preferences or other types of selection effects” If we really want to make America healthy again, walkability should be a priority

I peaked

A practical introduction to parsing (in #rustlang) jhwlr.io/intro-to-par...

we are completely over phys.org/news/2025-08...

Hmmmmmm

Register allocation is one of those things that seems like it should take 2 days to implement. Everyone I've ever spoken to about it has found all sorts of surprises that cause those 2 days to balloon. This great post will save future folk much time! bernsteinbear.com/blog/linear-...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

OH BOY do I have thoughts about "Ph.D.-level expert"! But let me start by saying that it doesn't matter how you FEEL while talking to the machine. The better the FEELING, the worse off you are as a human being when it spews bullshit nonsense. So this is just a better scam. 🧵

One thing that annoys me about these stories and the common depictions of working from home is this image of someone relaxing on the couch/in bed. I like to wfh because I have faster internet, a bigger desk, better monitors, and an office with a door that shuts. I’m not lounging in bed.

Mathematics is everywhere

New @sdr-podcast.com episode! This one is an excited-newcomer's love letter to @typst.app, and spoiler: since we recorded this (months ago now!), I've been using Typst for basically everything :D (and disclaimer, @fasterthanli.me and I weren't ever LaTeX users) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeNr...

new blog. i am angry about target triples mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/t...

If you ever meet someone spouting this nonsense, just ask what steps they’re taking to prepare their kids for mining careers.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

👀 Oleg Kiselyov's compilers course in OCaml 👀 okmij.org/ftp/tagless-...

Great (and rare!) @wired.com story on the transformative story of Arxiv, and its creator Paul Ginsparg www.wired.com/story/inside...

A very interesting retrospective on using Sea of Nodes in V8 and the pros and (seemingly in the majority) cons v8.dev/blog/leaving...

Great visualizations & writing about different IO devices and latency by @PlanetScale planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...

I'm posting my Intro to Quantum Computing Course on Github this year. github.com/UMassIonTrap... 13 interactive Colabs 16 recorded lecture (so far) 70 pages of 'Goodnotes' Focus is visual and interactive learning of how qubits work (eg. RWA below) Hope it's helpful! I'll post updates as we go!

🚨CODE RED: Our Computer Science the Fun Way Humble Bundle just broke containment! 18 popular CS books, you decide the price. Proceeds support @eff.org. www.humblebundle.com/books/comput...

First post on @flashes.blue: two lovely dogs😍

Big “Internet Streaming SIMD extensions” energy

Fil Pizlo wrote an interesting post about creating SSA: gist.github.com/pizlonator/c...