Hymn to be recited for the next thousand mornings A few years ago, scientists feared they’d lose their jobs if they said anything against diversity programs. I was against that. Now scientists fear they’ll lose their jobs if they say anything for diversity programs. I’m against that too. A few years ago, if you didn’t list your pronouns, you
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