Saying hi to Microsofts Phi-4-reasoning

Opposing SB37 Yesterday, the Texas State Legislature heard public comments about SB37, a bill that would give a state board direct oversight over course content and faculty hiring at public universities, perhaps inspired by Trump’s national crackdown on higher education. (See here or here for coverage.) So, encouraged by a friend in

4x faster network file sync with rclone vs rsync 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) For the past couple years, I have transported my ‘working set’ of video and project data to and from work on an external Thunderbolt NVMe SSD. But it’s always been slow

Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI also LLM 025

What I learned during the license switch Yesterday, it was a very intense day. In Italy it was 1st of May, the workers holiday, so in the morning I went for a 4h walk in the Etna with friends Then at 6PM I was at home to release my blog post about the AGPL license switch, and

Bloom filters

Redis is open source again Five months ago, I rejoined Redis and quickly started to talk with my colleagues about a possible switch to the AGPL license, only to discover that there was already an ongoing discussion, a very old one, too. Many people, within the company, had the feeling that the AGPL was a

Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what vibe coding means

Quantum AI Everything but Trump

Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena