I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video](youtube.com)

52 points by starbugs 1 year ago | 13 comments

Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video](youtube.com)

545 points by zdw 2 years ago | 105 comments

YouTube video by Robert Feranec showing extreme close-up footage of soldering electronic components.

How much math is knowable? [video](youtube.com)

85 points by diaphanous 1 year ago | 6 comments

François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video](youtube.com)

215 points by sandslash 1 year ago | 185 comments

NASA's Future SLS Booster Failed Its First Test [video](youtube.com)

3 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Future of Programming (2013) [video](youtube.com)

146 points by jackdoe 11 months ago | 91 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon(theregister.com)

902 points by itvision 2 months ago | 681 comments

The Register reports AMD has acquired AI chip startup Taalas, which hardwires model weights into silicon for fast inference, reaching up to 17,000 tokens per second.

Things you can do with diodes(lcamtuf.substack.com)

367 points by zdw 11 months ago | 106 comments

A blog post on lcamtuf's Substack explaining the diode and the practical circuit applications of this often-overlooked electronic component.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras(digitalcameraworld.com)

545 points by toss1 2 years ago | 226 comments

Digital Camera World news article about Zeiss's Holocam, a transparent holographic camera technology that turns glass windows into cameras.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)

851 points by smitop 1 year ago | 1169 comments

A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.