Consistent hashing

HSBC unleashes yet another qombie a zombie claim of quantum advantage that isnt Today, I got email after email asking me to comment on a new paper from HSBC—yes, the bank—together with IBM. The paper claims to use a quantum computer to get a 34% advantage in predictions of financial trading data. (See also blog posts here and here, or numerous popular articles

Full eGPU acceleration on the Pi 500 with a 15-line patch Full eGPU acceleration on the Pi 500+ with a 15-line patch Instead of a traditional review of a new Pi product, I thought I’d split things up on my blog, and write two separate posts; this one about hacking

Testing the Raspberry Pi 500s new mechanical keyboard Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+’s new mechanical keyboard Instead of a traditional review of a new Pi product, I thought I’d split things up on my blog, and write two separate posts; this one about the Pi 500+’s new

Darkness over America Update (September 24): A sympathetic correspondent wrote to tip me off that this blog post has caused me to get added to a list, maintained by MAGA activists and circulated by email, of academics and others who ought to “[face] some consequences for maligning the patriotic MAGA movement.” Needless to

Philosophy for Designers 2 Parts and wholes and moments oh my This is Part 2 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also read Part 1, or check out the reading list behind this series. Once, when I was a software engineer working on multiuser collaboration application, I was tasked with building the user interface component that

Parts and wholes and moments oh my This is Part 2 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also read Part 1, or check out the reading list behind this series. Once, when I was a software engineer working on multiuser collaboration application, I was tasked with building the user interface component that

You can finally manage Macs with FileVault remotely in Tahoe You can finally manage Macs with FileVault remotely in Tahoe For years, I’ve had a couple Macs running at home and at my studio, which I use to remotely manage my video projects or some coding project. It’s nice to

I regret building this 3000 Pi AI cluster I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April 2023 (two years ago), and they just arrived a few weeks ago. In that time Raspberry Pi upgraded the CM4 to

I think agent may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now