Why doesnt Apple make a standalone Touch ID I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple’s so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren’t any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in. But there is a way to hack it. It’s incredibly wasteful, and takes a bit more patience than I think most people have, but
Mihai Ptracu Best Paper Award Guest post from Seth Pettie Scott’s foreword: Today I’m honored to turn over Shtetl-Optimized to a guest post from Michigan theoretical computer scientist Seth Pettie, who writes about a SOSA Best Paper Award newly renamed in honor of the late Mihai Pătrașcu. Mihai, who I knew from his student days, was a brash, larger-than-life figure
Nvidia Graphics Cards work on Pi 5 and Rockchip A few months ago, GitHub user @yanghaku dropped a 15 line patch to fix GPU support for practically all AMD GPUs on the Raspberry Pi (and demoed a 3080 running on the Pi with a separate, unreleased patch). This week, GitHub user @mariobalanica dropped this (larger) patch which does the
Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson
Notes on the WASM Basic C ABI
Claude Opus 45 and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult
sqlite-utils 40a1 has several minor backwards incompatible changes
Podcasts A 9-year-old named Kai (“The Quantum Kid”) and his mother interviewed me about closed timelike curves, wormholes, Deutsch’s resolution of the Grandfather Paradox, and the implications of time travel for computational complexity: This is actually one of my better podcasts (and only 24 minutes long), so check it out! Here’s
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