Anthropics new Citations API

Good news for once A faster Quantum Fourier Transform Update: In the comments, Craig Gidney points out that Ronit’s O(n log2 n) quantum circuits for the exact QFT were already published by Cleve and Watrous in 2000 (in a paper whose main point was something else, parallelization). Ronit’s O(n (log log n)2) circuits for the approximate QFT still appear

Six short video demos of LLM and Datasette projects

Open letter to any Shtetl-Optimized readers who know Elon Did Elon Musk make a Nazi salute? Well, not exactly. As far as I can tell, the truth is that he recklessly and repeatedly made a hand gesture that the world’s millions of Nazi sympathizers eagerly misinterpreted as a Nazi salute. He then (the worse part) declined to clarify or

The mini-singularity Err, happy MLK Day! This week represents the convergence of so many plotlines that, if it were the season finale of some streaming show, I’d feel like the writers had too many balls in the air. For the benefit of the tiny part of the world that cares what I

DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

Project Mini Rack - compact and portable homelabs Project Mini Rack - compact and portable homelabs Today I’m announcing Project MINI RACK, an open source project to help those building homelabs, RF/wireless rigs, and other electronics projects into mini 10" racks. Jeff

Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in the console Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in the console top (pictured below… above is btop) is the first utility everyone recommends to monitor Linux (or any form of UNIX, including macOS) resource usage. It’s efficient, available almost everywhere… but

Reverse mode Automatic Differentiation

My AILLM predictions for the next 1 3 and 6 years for Oxide and Friends