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OpenAI o3-mini now available in LLM

The American science funding catastrophe It’s been almost impossible to get reliable information this week, but here’s what my sources are telling me: There is still a complete freeze on money being disbursed from the US National Science Foundation. Well, there’s total chaos in the federal government much more broadly, a lot of it more

How is Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi How is Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi? OpenAI, which is only really open about consuming all the world’s energy and half a trillion of our taxpayer dollars, just got rattled to its core. Deepseek, a new AI startup run

Dont pay 800 for Apples 2TB SSD upgrade Don’t pay $800 for Apple’s 2TB SSD upgrade Apple charges $800 to upgrade from the base model M4 Mac mini’s 256 GB of internal storage to a more capacious 2 TB. Pictured above is a photo of a standard 2230-size

A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source

CaribouLite SDR HAT for SDR on a Raspberry Pi CaribouLite SDR HAT for SDR on a Raspberry Pi A couple years ago, after I heard about the CaribouLite on CrowdSupply, I pre-ordered one. I’ve dabbled in SDR with an RTL-SDR v3 for a few years, even using one with

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