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Developer Vincenzo released NanoEuler, a from-scratch GPT-2-scale language model training stack written in C and CUDA without PyTorch or autograd, on June 28, 2026. The 116-million-parameter project implements forward an…
A developer building a word game based on deduction discovered that generating puzzles solvable by pure logic was unexpectedly difficult, with the generator producing fewer than a hundred deducible boards from a vast com…
A blog post proposes using reinforcement learning on a timestamped internet cache to train a superhuman forecaster, aiming to solve the data-leakage problem in AI forecasting benchmarks. The proposal is speculative and l…
Marcus Hutter and an author published an accessible introduction to real hypercomputation in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, focusing on applications to algorithmic information theory and building foundation…
Researcher HoLo-ToLk built speech-to-text and text-to-speech models using a tokenizer-free byte substrate, achieving a character error rate of 0.194 on STT, beating a mel-spectrogram baseline, while TTS remains a feasibi…
Developer tryfonaskam released PILA, an open-source imitation learning agent that learns to play the browser racing game PolyTrack by training on screen captures and human keyboard inputs. Implemented in PyTorch, the pip…
Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH-funded study from M…
An engineering leader who spent six years leading ML engineering and safety systems at Grab has launched a self-hosted LinkedIn profile. The profile details his work on multimodal moderation systems and building engineer…
A developer created a new benchmark for evaluating AI agent monitors, finding that standard scoring methods are gameable—a coin flip achieves an F1 score of 0.88. After correcting the metric to reward only detections on …
A developer building the V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS bare-metal kernel implemented a double-buffered graphical user interface called Synaptic Canvas GUI, running on UEFI GOP framebuffer without floating-point libraries. The GUI …
Engineers at narrivo highlight the problem of overfitting in large language models, particularly in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evaluation. They explain that overfitting causes models to perform well on test dat…
A mathematician explains how to derive the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) from scratch by focusing on the motivation behind the concept, arguing that traditional math books often obscure intuitive understanding by pr…
A developer built PSLRate, a browser-only face-rating app that computes attractiveness scores entirely client-side using MediaPipe's FaceLandmarker, with no image uploads or per-scan costs. The free tier analyzes facial …
Researchers introduced Autoregressive Boltzmann Generators (ArBG), a new framework for efficient molecular sampling that outperforms flow-based models. The ArBG method, demonstrated on peptide systems including Chignolin…
A developer built V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS, a bare-metal operating system that runs entirely inside the CPU's L3 cache. The project includes a custom 30MB standalone IDE written in Rust that replaces VS Code, and a neural doc…
A developer built a production-grade cross-platform face recognition pipeline with anti-spoofing, using a lightweight RFB-320 face detector, FaceNet-style embeddings, and HNSW indexing for sub-millisecond matching. The s…
A developer warns that AI-generated tests often pass without actually verifying behavior, creating a false sense of security. The solution is mutation testing, which checks if tests can detect code changes. Tools like Gr…
A developer building a personal knowledge base using Karpathy's LLM Wiki framework discovered that storing only declarative knowledge (facts and definitions) is insufficient for expert-level reasoning. By analyzing teach…
Researchers propose scaling parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) to support millions of personalized models on top of shared trillion-parameter foundation models. The study introduces three scaling axes—Scale Up, Scale…
New Zealand winger Elijah Just scored twice against Iran in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, becoming the first Motherwell player and first New Zealander to score at a World Cup. His performance has sparked transfer interest fro…