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111 piecesnothing on this screen wants anything from me
Entry two of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone.
Count the things on your screen that are trying to get …
one window at a time
Someone is standing next to your desk. You didn’t hear them arrive.
On your screen: nine terminals, a stalled deploy, three log tails, a diff you were …
telesphoros
Archaeologists at Aspendos, in southern Türkiye, pulled a 2.2-meter marble group out of the ground this month. Asklepios, god of medicine, bare-chested with his …
a billion apart
Alibaba says Qwen has been downloaded three billion times. Hugging Face counts 2.045 billion.
Both numbers were published this month. Neither party is lying. …
batch zero
Four hundred seventy-four gigawatts.
That’s what ERCOT is holding in interconnection requests, according to Governor Abbott’s August 3 directive. …
hi i hope yo ucant see me
That sentence, typo and all, was hidden in white text inside a filing submitted to the Connecticut Superior Court.
It wasn’t alone. According to Judge …
Fourteen of Fifteen
Three hundred fifty-four proteins that had never existed were designed by a language model, manufactured, and tested in a lab. Fourteen of the fifteen targets …
Pax Silica
Thirty-five countries signed something called the AI Opportunity Statement. This week they found out it was an exclusivity agreement.
Reuters reported on August …
the inverse of the hammer
Entry one of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone.
Maslow’s law says a tool shapes what you see. The …
Structured Boredom
Philosophy graduates have a lower unemployment rate than computer science graduates right now — 3.2% versus 6.1%, per the New York Fed’s outcomes-by-major …