whoah this Apple tech is cool they run a 20B model in-memory, but that’s far too big to actually fit in memory, so they use a tiny classifier to select which experts to load, once per inference instead of per output token machinelearning.apple.com/research/int...

Introducing the tanuki ball sack bag you never knew you needed until today ("his balls get bigger as you shop"). You're welcome.

Another day, another bunch of entitled people yelling at free software maintainers. The older I get the more impressed I am about how nothing ever changes. apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

As much as I understand the impulse, *any* feature that prevents a context window from being fully clean is bad and needs to be fired directly into the sun. The ability to *fully* reset to a clean context window is fundamental to almost every LLM product.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Low key one of my favorite games of the year.

A really dumb thing here is that even if we accept this framing, the building part is what’s been heavily automated and everyone becomes a “measurer”.

Network procedurals in general are A+ TV. Elementary is a particularly good example but man the whole genre doesn’t get its due. Full length seasons of charming ensemble casts! Retvrn!

100% this. LLMs are an augmentation, and generally not automation (especially in high-skill uses). Knowing your shit still matters.

Infrastory is back with more posts this week - today’s is about how Toronto completely inverts expectations of what is possible for transit in car-oriented areas. Much to learn here for cities in North America and across the world! open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

Reinforces two of my strong suspicions: 1 - Small fine-tunes are *way* under-explored. 2 - Getting LLMs to speak JSON is increasing an architecture smell. In almost every situation you are getting degraded performance vs. asking it to speak XML, YAML, etc.

On the one hand the US can de facto have a flag carrier again. On the other hand it’s Spirit.

This is the greatest line read in history and I will never miss an opportunity to remind people of it.

I wrote something: sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03...

this is kind of a crazy story! the headline predictably understates the role of the scientists the guy worked with as well as his own expertise, but the article is great and it does seem pretty clear that he would never have been able to do it without LLMs www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec...

Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. These people think their writing style is so badass and emphatic, when even their cadence is a cliche. I'm so sick and tired of this tired format.

did u know new sata ssds are mostly empty inside but just the right size for a custom enclosure

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“Gas leak The Expanse” is a truly great description of this amazing, awful show that I can’t wait to watch more of.

A much needed timeline cleanse.

sysadmin hits different now

Pineapple is a perfectly cromulent pizza topping.

The Philippine Airlines preflight video is a whole telenovela. 🤣

The only true way is the Canadian way (As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)

Absolutely superb piece that expresses a lot of what I’ve been thinking, but far more eloquently. Not even gonna add to it - just go read it.

Thing I love about SFO: parallel departures like a friggin aircraft carrier.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

“Prediction markets” are just reinventing back alley prop bets on everything. They’re not some unique source of collective truth, they’re not providing any value to anyone. It’s just betting. That’s all it is.

Dredd 2. Hell, the entire Dredd Cinematic Universe.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Companies should *never* ask employees to float or front money for them. If an employee incurs expenses on behalf of the company they should be given a company payment instrument. “Put it on your card and file for reimbursement” should never be required nor the default.

The greatest obstacle to the widespread acceptance and proliferation of AI technology appears to be... AI companies themselves. Their preternatural ability to create totally antisocial products, more than anything else, threatens a whole new AI winter.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

Most replies to this focus on story-driven games, but IMO there's a lot to be said for games that are intensely good at gameplay mechanics. Good examples: the stealth tactics games from the now-defunct Mimimi studio. Shadow Gambit is IMO an example of the pinnacle of gameplay design.

Studio 60 Journeyman Jericho Better Off Ted

I am incandescently angry that "AI safety" people have spent years chasing Skynet thought experiments instead of *this shit*, which has always been far more likely and far more important.

appreciating the miracles of modern technology while still understanding its limitations is one of the most important modern skills one can cultivate the "that's cool" to "that can do anything" pipeline has been weaponized, but it's not enough to just retreat to the safety of "actually, it sucks"

Lads the HONK I just honked

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate.

Dear LinkedIn: please stop trying to make me play games on your app. You are the absolute last party in the world I want video games from.

A great post and in line with my experience: *especially* the bit about chaining reliability. It has been a classic ML problem since forever and it turns out LLMs still have all the same properties of ML generally, for good and bad.

holy shit lmao

Gardetto's with just pumpernickel chips is a truly GOAT snack.