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Demystifying the Feed: X Publishes Its Recommendation Algorithm to GitHub
X has released the source code for the algorithm powering its 'For You' feed on GitHub, sparking discussions on transparency and regulatory pressure.
The AI Backlash: Eric Schmidt and the Tension Between Tech Optimism and Graduate Anxiety
An analysis of the growing public resistance to AI narratives, sparked by the negative reception of Eric Schmidt's commencement speech at the University of Arizona.
Intelligence as a Utility: Analyzing OpenAI's National Rollout in Malta
OpenAI and the Government of Malta have partnered to provide ChatGPT Plus to all citizens who complete an AI literacy course, sparking a debate on digital sovereignty and corporate influence.
Bottling the Sun: The Promise and Limitations of Liquid Solar Batteries
An analysis of a new liquid battery technology that stores solar energy as heat, exploring its potential for residential heating and its efficiency challenges compared to traditional batteries.
Implementing Profunctor Equipment in Haskell
An exploration of how category theory concepts like profunctors and 2-cells can be encoded in Haskell to provide compiler-verified intuitions of Profunctor Equipment.
Breaking the Hypersonic Barrier: Japan's Quest for Mach 5 Travel
A Japanese research team has successfully tested a ramjet engine for a Mach 5 aircraft, aiming to reduce travel time between Japan and the US to just two hours by the 2040s.
Mastering Kagi Search: Understanding Snaps and Bangs
Explore how Kagi's Snaps and Bangs features allow for precise, site-specific searches and high levels of customization to streamline your web discovery process.
Visualizing the Veins of Modernity: Creating Art from Electrical Grid Data
Explore grid2poster, an open-source tool that transforms OpenStreetMap data into stunning, print-ready posters of national and continental electrical grids.
Self-Distillation: A New Frontier for Continual Learning in LLMs
Exploring how self-distillation transforms off-policy data into on-policy data to mitigate catastrophic forgetting during LLM fine-tuning.
Pushing the Limits of Density: Dell and Kioxia's 10PB 2RU Storage Server
Dell and Kioxia have developed a 2RU server capable of storing nearly 10 petabytes of data using high-capacity QLC SSDs, signaling a major shift in AI infrastructure and data lake scaling.
The Social Cost of AI License Plate Cameras: A Case Study in Surveillance Overreach
An analysis of the implementation of AI-powered license plate readers in a small town, highlighting the tension between public safety and civil liberties.
Zerostack: A High-Performance, Rust-Powered Coding Agent
Zerostack is a minimal, Unix-inspired coding agent written in Rust that prioritizes extreme efficiency and low resource overhead compared to JS-based alternatives.