Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac I’ve been getting into time, with my most recent project being a DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi. For most civilians, the most accurate source of time

Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarinos SNAP evals

Fight Fiercely Last week I visited Harvard and MIT, and as advertised in my last post, gave the Yip Lecture at Harvard on the subject “How Much Math Is Knowable?” The visit was hosted by Harvard’s wonderful Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA), directed by my former UT Austin colleague Dan

AI assisted search-based research actually works now

Maybe Metas Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act

Sparsely-gated Mixture Of Experts MoE

Image segmentation using Gemini 25

The almost perfect mini NAS for my mini rack The (almost) perfect mini NAS for my mini rack The GMKtec G9 N150 4-bay NVMe mini PC is $240 and the nearly perfect NAS for my mini rack: It has an Intel N150 4-core SoC with halfway-decent Intel UHD integrated

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting About three years ago I saw a quite curious and interesting post on Hacker News. A student, Christopher Tarry, was able to use cosine similarity against a vector of top words frequencies in comments, in order to detect similar HN accounts — and, sometimes, even accounts actually controlled by the

I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636 Every week, I tell myself I won’t do yet another post about the asteroid striking American academia, and then every week events force my hand otherwise. No one on earth—certainly no one who reads this blog—could call me blasé about the issue of antisemitism at US universities. I’ve blasted the