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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 …

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