The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers

Increasing the VRAM allocation on AMD AI APUs under Linux Increasing the VRAM allocation on AMD AI APUs under Linux Since I saw some posts calling out the old (now deprecated) way to increase GTT memory allocations for the iGPU on AMD APUs (like the AI Max+ 395 /

GPT-5 Key characteristics pricing and model card

I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test huge LLMs I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test huge LLMs Framework casually mentioned they were testing a mini-rack AI cluster in their Framework Desktop presentation back in March. Imagine my surprise when Nirav Patel, Framework’s founder and CEO, was at Open

Follow-up to habit experiment 1 Analog evenings This is a follow-up to an earlier post. About a month ago, I began an experiment in intentional living I called “analog evenings.” The rules of this experiment were simple: Each night, around two hours before bedtime, I would power down—no phone, no computer, no television, nothing with a backlit screen

OpenAIs new open weight Apache 2 models are really good

ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life Guest Post by Harvey Lederman Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my best friends among the UT professoriate. He’s my favorite kind of philosopher, the kind who sees scientists as partners in

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The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase 5 2025 Edition Sorry for the long blog-hiatus! I was completely occupied for weeks, teaching an intensive course on theoretical computer science to 11-year-olds (!), at a math camp in St. Louis that was also attended by my 8-year-old son. Soon I’ll accompany my 12-year-old daughter to a science camp in Connecticut, where