HIVE, a decentralized peer-to-peer knowledge base designed as a "Wikipedia for machines" that provides cryptographically verifiable content for LLMs using the Holepunch stack. It uses a two-tier archi…
A broke college student built a free, local AI pipeline called "gemma-brief" to solve the problem of having no time to watch educational YouTube videos. The system runs overnight on a base MacBook Air…
A study published in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* found that Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia launched by xAI, produces articles that are longer, less readable, and co…
The article describes the author's investigation into the claim that "zork" was MIT jargon for an unfinished program, a factoid long listed on Wikipedia without a clear source. After mining Wikipedia'…
Tool-using research agent built for the Gemma 4 DEV Challenge, which runs locally on the Gemma 4 e2b model via Ollama using roughly 200 lines of Node.js code. The agent accepts a question, selects bet…
Cliff Stoll, the mathematician known for Klein bottles and the book *The Cuckoo's Egg*, discovered that an AI-generated Facebook post falsely reported his death in May 2024, leading to the rumor being…
Every interaction with a modern large language model is structured as a list of messages, each tagged with a role—system, user, or assistant—that shapes how the model responds and how context is manag…
Hyperscalers are projected to spend $725 billion on AI infrastructure this year, even as users increasingly reject AI-generated content. Gartner reports that 50% of US consumers prefer brands that avo…
This article describes a system for creating a personal knowledge wiki from an individual's data, emphasizing the role of a writer who understands and connects information rather than just filing it. …
This article provides a detailed NickelMenu configuration file for a Kobo Libra 2 (or other Kobo e-readers), listing custom menu items that add shortcuts to features like Pocket, web browsers, Goodrea…