Research

This article explores the hobbyist-driven microbenchmarking of modern motherboard chipsets, acknowledging that while chipsets have become less critical for performance since CPUs integrated memory controllers and PCIe la…

Their experience playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game, combined with insights from game theory and cybernetics sparked by the Iran War, led them to develop a new mathematical framework called Strategic Momentum Mechanic…

Here is a factual summary of the article: The article describes the creation of "BeatPaxos," an interactive tutorial game built using Claude Code that simulates the Paxos distributed consensus algorithm. In the game, pl…

This chapter from *Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces* examines the challenges of multiprocessor scheduling, including cache coherence, synchronization, and cache affinity. It compares two primary approaches: Single-Qu…

Based on the article "Measuring Agents in Production," a survey of 306 practitioners and 20 case studies reveals that deployed AI agents are far simpler than hype suggests, with 80% using predefined workflows and 68% req…

The article explains how token bucket algorithms can prevent retry storms in distributed systems by stopping retries when a downstream service fails. It warns that implementing this algorithm in a sequential client drive…

Here is a factual summary of the article: The article describes a new solver for the word game Semantle that does not require knowledge of the game's underlying embedding model. Instead of using exact similarity scores,…

HACRL (Heterogeneous Agent Collaborative Reinforcement Learning), a method where multiple AI models of different sizes and capabilities share successful training trajectories to learn from each other, rather than trainin…

This paper introduces the Serial Safety Net (SSN), a certification scheme that layers on top of weak isolation levels like Read Committed or Snapshot Isolation to guarantee serializability without the performance penalti…

As software becomes deeply embedded in an organization's operational foundation, its complexity and hidden dependencies often create friction, delays, and risk during changes. While initial tools provide quick value, the…

While ATMs initially did not reduce bank teller employment (contrary to predictions), the widespread adoption of smartphones—particularly the iPhone—eventually led to a sharp decline in teller jobs by enabling mobile ban…

This article explains how network analysis tools like Burp Suite can be used to inspect the hidden data traffic flowing between apps, websites, and devices. The author describes learning this technique from a security re…

The article introduces an individual who is a father of two, a husband, and a scientific backend software developer with a PhD in Computational Materials Science from Georgia Tech. It lists their technical expertise in p…

The article discusses the 80386 processor's improved protection model, which added paging, a flat 32-bit address space, and Virtual 8086 mode to make protected mode usable after the 80286's unpopular implementation. It e…

DroPE, a method that removes positional embeddings from pretrained large language models (LLMs) after training to enable zero-shot generalization to sequences far longer than their original training context. While explic…

The article distinguishes between "true" and "correct," arguing that scientific theories like Newton's or Einstein's can be "correct" in their predictive accuracy but are never "true." It explains that 19th-century think…

Here is a factual summary of the article: The article describes a solver for Semantle, a Wordle variant that scores guesses based on semantic similarity rather than letter matching. The solver uses a filtering approach …

The Kimi k2.5 is an open-source multimodal AI model with 1 trillion parameters that uses joint pre-training and reinforcement learning to integrate text and vision natively, rather than adding vision late in training. It…

The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor determined whether an instruction was intended for it by monitoring the computer's bus via its Bus Interface Unit (BIU) for specific "ESCAPE" opcodes assigned to the coprocessor.…

`microgpt.py`, a minimal, dependency-free Python implementation of a GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model for training and inference. It includes a complete autograd system, a character-level tokenizer, and a t…