Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM

On time and tokens In Technology and the Lifeworld, philosopher of technology Don Ihde discusses how the invention of the clock radically shifted both humankind’s perception of time, as well as what we determined to be most salient in the measurement of time. With clocks, rather than “read the heavens” to ascertain the time

Air Lab is the Flipper Zero of air quality monitors This air quality monitor costs $250. It’s called the Air Lab, and I’ve been using it to measure the air in my car, home, studio, and a few events over the past few months. And in using it over the course of a road trip I learned to not run

Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model

How to silence the fan on a CM5 after shutdown Out of the box, if you buy a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, install it on the official CM5 IO Board, and install a fan on it (e.g. my current favorite, the EDAtec CM5 Active Cooler), you’ll notice the fan ramps up to 100% speed after you shut down the

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 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 blog post shows how to quickly get almost any modern AMD GPU running on a Raspberry Pi 5, CM5, or

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