Quantum Investment Bros Have you no shame Near the end of my last post, I made a little offhand remark: [G]iven the current staggering rate of hardware progress, I now think it’s a live possibility that we’ll have a fault-tolerant quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm before the next US presidential election. And I say that not only because of
How I automate my Substack newsletter with content from my blog
Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
Using AMD GPUs on Raspberry Pi without recompiling Linux Using AMD GPUs on Raspberry Pi without recompiling Linux I’m working on a more in-depth test of some newer AMD GPUs on the Raspberry Pi, now that the 15 line kernel patch is (IMO) nearly ready for upstreaming. But this
Quantum computing too much to handle Tomorrow I’m headed to Berkeley for the Inkhaven blogging residency, whose participants need to write one blog post per day or get kicked out. I’ll be there to share my “wisdom” as a distinguished elder blogger (note that Shtetl-Optimized is now in its twentieth year). I’m acutely aware of the
Not a hobby Reflections on life habit experiment 2 The first time I met Evan was on move-in day at UCLA. I was quietly unpacking in my third-floor dorm room when he burst through the doorway, waved his hands, and loudly enquired of me and my other roommates: “Do you guys play StarCraft?” The year was 1999, and we
What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles
All Intel GPUs run on Raspberry Pi and RISC-V All Intel GPUs run on Raspberry Pi and RISC-V We finally have Intel Arc GPUs working on the Pi somewhat stably—it required overcoming many small hurdles, but it looks like support could land in Raspberry Pi OS if we
Scaling HNSWs I’m taking a few weeks of pause on my HNSWs developments (now working on some other data structure, news soon). At this point, the new type I added to Redis is stable and complete enough, it’s the perfect moment to reason about what I learned about HNSWs, and turn it
Minisforum stuffs an entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1 Minisforum stuffs an entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1 The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should