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

ChatGPT agents user-agent

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

The imp of optimization Most workday afternoons, I leave my desk, set my Slack status to “away,” and take a meandering forty-minute walk around my neighborhood. This open secret between me and my coworkers—a habit I stumbled into a few years ago—has proven immensely beneficial to both my psychological and physical well-being. After a

Reverse engineering some updates to Claude

Darlington Nuclear Generating Station The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station just outside Toronto has four CANDU nuclear reactors with a total output of 3,512 MW. It generates about 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity needs, enough for roughly two million homes. I recently toured the facility on a quick business trip to the area. Darlington Nuclear

Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

Decoding Meshtastic with GNURadio on a Raspberry Pi Decoding Meshtastic with GNURadio on a Raspberry Pi I’ve been playing with Meshtastic a lot, since learning about it at Open Sauce last year. I’m up to 5 little LoRa radios now, and I’m working on a couple nicer