Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token(shyam.blog)

411 points by tplrbv 2 years ago | 72 comments

A long blog post analyzing how a small ~10M parameter transformer trained from Karpathy's tutorial turns attention outputs into next-token predictions.

Why is Chile so long?(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

1351 points by trevin 2 years ago | 391 comments

A Substack article by Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories explaining why Chile is so long and thin, and how its geography shapes the country and its people.

How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?(langdev.stackexchange.com)

361 points by azeemba 1 year ago | 59 comments

A Stack Exchange question on Programming Language Design and Implementation asking how modern compilers decide which variables to place in registers.

PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust(github.com)

76 points by sparticle62 26 days ago | 32 comments

GitHub repository for PSSA, a custom non-transformer language model architecture written from scratch in Rust.

Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software(bitbashing.io)

622 points by mrkline 3 years ago | 520 comments

Blog post titled "Async Rust Is A Bad Language" critiquing Rust's async model for massively concurrent userspace software, starting from why async exists.

Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup(yitay.net)

360 points by swyx 2 years ago | 92 comments

Yi Tay's blog post on the experience of training large language models from scratch at a startup (Reka), covering compute, infrastructure, and lessons learned.