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A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
A discussion regarding the choice of AI models (Claude vs Grok) for controlling robotic systems.
Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors
A catalog showcasing named colors and their historical or descriptive contexts.
Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
Tesco is migrating 40,000 server workloads away from VMware due to pricing and licensing issues following Broadcom's acquisition.
Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction
Introduction to Loreline, a set of tools designed for creating interactive fiction.
Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?
An article discussing urban planning and zoning restrictions regarding apartment sizes and amenities in Walnut Creek.
A World of First Drafts
An essay exploring the concept and creative process of 'first drafts' in writing.
Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI
Venture capitalist Chi-Hua Chien argues that the ultimate winners in the AI era will be those who apply AI to solve problems rather than those selling AI as a product.
Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
Apple CEO Tim Cook indicates that rising RAM costs are becoming unsustainable, leading to inevitable price increases for Apple products.
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
New promises for achieving useful quantum error correction by 2028, potentially accelerating the timeline for practical quantum computing.
California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network
California alleges that AT&T provided false information to the FCC to facilitate the shutdown of legacy phone network infrastructure.
The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation
A discussion on the revival and importance of rigorous full-system timing simulation in computer architecture.
Bringing down my ZSH load times from ~3.1s to ~230ms
A guide on optimizing ZSH shell load times, reducing them from over 3 seconds to 230ms.
VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription
VSCO launches Studio Pro, a mobile photo editing app for high-volume projects with a high annual subscription fee.
Implicit vs. Explicit Prompting Strategies for LVLMs in Referential Communication
Research comparing implicit and explicit prompting in Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), finding that explicit prompting is necessary for communicative efficiency.
MeiBRD: Meta-Learning Intraoperative Biomechanical Residual Deformation
Introduction of MeiBRD, a hybrid registration framework using meta-learning to improve intraoperative liver registration accuracy.
Model Validation of Agentic AI Systems: A POMDP-Based Framework for Belief-State, Forecast, and Policy Validation
A proposed POMDP-based framework for the validation and governance of autonomous agentic AI systems, focusing on belief-state and policy validation.
TerraTransfer: Learning End-to-End Driving Policies Without Expert Demonstrations
TerraTransfer proposes a method for end-to-end autonomous driving policies without needing expert demonstrations by leveraging self-play in simulators.
Visuals Lie, Consistency Speaks: Disentangling Spatial Attention from Reliability in Vision-Language Models
A study challenging the Attention-Confidence Assumption in Vision-Language Models, finding that reliability is driven by generation dynamics rather than spatial attention.
NarrativeWorldBench: A Frontier-Saturated Benchmark and a Latent World Model for Long-Horizon Co-Creative Audio Drama
Introduction of NarrativeWorldBench for long-horizon narrative evaluation and N-VSSM, a state-space model for consistent long-form audio drama creation.
SoK: AI-Augmented Binary Reversing
A comprehensive systematization of knowledge (SoK) on AI-augmented binary reversing, analyzing 144 papers to create a unified taxonomy.