They’re made out of weights (Max Leiter's website)
A dialogue reimagining neural networks as sentient entities made entirely of floating-point weights, riffing on Terry Bisson's sci-fi story.
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A dialogue reimagining neural networks as sentient entities made entirely of floating-point weights, riffing on Terry Bisson's sci-fi story.
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, a 12 billion parameter multimodal model using direct projection instead of separate vision and audio encoders.
Elixir v1.20 adds gradual type checking without requiring type annotations, finding verified bugs in existing code.
Meta scaled back its employee keystroke and click tracking tool, allowing 30-minute opt-out windows after staff backlash.
Researcher remotely hacks Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speaker via Bluetooth to inject custom firmware and execute arbitrary commands as keyboard.
Russell author Andrew Gallant was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis after psychiatric misdiagnosis nearly delayed life-saving neurological treatment.
Ted Chiang argues that large language models like Claude are not conscious, dismissing anthropomorphic framing by AI companies.
Trump administration plans to dismantle ocean monitoring system tracking Atlantic currents at risk of collapse.
Uber caps AI coding tool spending at $1,500 per employee per month to manage costs after exhausting its 2026 budget in four months.
UC Berkeley CS failing grades tripled in spring 2026, with professors citing AI overuse, weak math skills, and understaffing.
DaVinci Resolve 21 adds a Photo page with color grading tools, nine AI-powered features, and improvements to editing and audio workflows.
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Apple doubled MacBook Neo production to 10 million units in 2026 after demand exceeded expectations.
Deep technical breakdown of PlayStation CPU architecture, from MIPS R3000A selection through coprocessor integration and pipeline hazards.
Espressif announces ESP32-S31, a dual-core RISC-V SoC with multi-protocol wireless connectivity and HMI support.
Let's Encrypt plans to adopt Merkle Tree Certificates to enable post-quantum cryptography without bloating TLS handshakes.
LLMs cracked a vulnerable Firebase app 0-70% of the time; GPT 5.5 scored highest at 70%, while guardrails hampered Anthropic models.
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UK media outlets failed to disclose defence industry ties in 58% of cited retired military officers' commentary.
Data layout drastically affects performance: struct-of-arrays can beat array-of-structs by 30x in sequential access, and total working set size determines random-access latency.