My talk at Columbia University Computational Complexity and Explanations in Physics

My talk at Columbia University Computational Complexity and Explanations in Physics Last week, I gave the Patrick Suppes Lecture in the Columbia University Philosophy Department. Patrick Suppes was a distinguished philosopher at Stanford who (among many other things) pioneered remote gifted education through the EPGY program, and who I was privileged to spend some time with back in 2007, when he

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9243 · October 16, 2025

Claude Skills are awesome maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Claude Skills are awesome maybe a bigger deal than MCP

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/#atom-entries · October 16, 2025

VCF Midwest was even better than I expected

VCF Midwest was even better than I expected VCF Midwest was even better than I expected Earlier this year, I inherited a bunch of old Macs and computer parts, including the PowerBook 520 pictured above. And, for the past three years I’ve been trying to visit VCF

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/vcf-midwest-was-even-better-i-expected · October 16, 2025

NVIDIA DGX Spark great hardware early days for the ecosystem

NVIDIA DGX Spark great hardware early days for the ecosystem

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/14/nvidia-dgx-spark/#atom-entries · October 14, 2025

Philosophy for Designers 4 Design for lingering

Philosophy for Designers 4 Design for lingering This is Part 4 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also read Part 3, or check out the reading list behind this series. The hsiang-yin (香鐘 or, in pinyin, “xiāngzhōng”) is an ancient Chinese timekeeping device first developed during the Song dynasty. Used in China

https://seanvoisen.com/blog/design-for-lingering/ · October 13, 2025

Design for lingering

Design for lingering This is Part 4 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also read Part 3, or check out the reading list behind this series. The hsiang-yin (香鐘 or, in pinyin, “xiāngzhōng”) is an ancient Chinese timekeeping device first developed during the Song dynasty. Used in China

https://seanvoisen.com/writing/design-for-lingering/ · October 13, 2025

Notes on using LaTeX to generate formulae

Notes on using LaTeX to generate formulae

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/notes-on-using-latex-to-generate-formulae/ · October 11, 2025

Resizeable BAR support on the Raspberry Pi

Resizeable BAR support on the Raspberry Pi Resizeable BAR support on the Raspberry Pi While not an absolute requirement for modern graphics card support on Linux, Resizeable BAR support makes GPUs go faster, by allowing GPUs to throw data back and forth on the PCIe bus

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/resizeable-bar-support-on-raspberry-pi · October 9, 2025

Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now

Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/claude-datasette-plugins/#atom-entries · October 8, 2025

How much radiation can a Pi handle in space

How much radiation can a Pi handle in space How much radiation can a Pi handle in space? Late in the cycle while researching CubeSats using Pis in space, I got in touch with Ian Charnas1, the chief engineer for the Mark Rober YouTube channel. Earlier this year, Crunchlabs

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-much-radiation-can-pi-handle-space · October 8, 2025