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35 stories and discussions about short, aggregated from every source we track.
What statistics can teach us about observing 3 deaths at Burning Man in 2026.
Part of my Python FAQ, which is doomed to never be finished. The short answer is: because it’s the actively-developed version of the language, and you should use it for the same reason you’d use 2.7 instead of 2.6. If…
Short article announcing my purchase of a Slimbook Executive 14-inch laptop, following the battery bulge problem in the five-year-old Slimbook Pro2, with the new device intended as a replacement, covering…
A searchable collection of over three thousand short APL phrases intended for both beginners and professionals.
First, you want to form a habit. Second, you want to operate at peak productivity during your session. Third, you want to minimize the amount you forget between sessions.
Being good at building and being good at shipping are two separate skills. In the short term, they’re actually countervailing: if you have a gift for building…
Short story about ‘The Institute of September the Thirtieth’, dedicated to the study of a single day in 1939, in the form of a review of a fictional book.
At the end of this (short, simple, illustrated) article, you should be able to reason about Jev from first principles.
Being good at building and being good at shipping are two separate skills. In the short term, they’re actually countervailing: if you have a gift for building…
A short explanation of the polar dual of a convex polytope using the level sets of its support function.
A short film made on a home PC: every shot generated by the MiniMax H3 video model in ComfyUI, then edited in DaVinci Resolve.
Remove video backgrounds and publish transparent videos on any website. Cross-browser playback, hosting, and one-click embed for Framer, Webflow and HTML.
A live look at 267 headphones and IEMs: reviewers disagree about treble far more than anything else, paying more doesn’t help, and fit often seems to be the reason.
Julio Cortazar's short story Axolotl: full text in html
A short note on Jev’s generalization, possible encoder-style architecture and training, and Choice and Noul API examples.
Turn the latest AI papers into debate-style podcasts and short visual explainers. No 100-page reading required.
Native MLX runtime for Laya typed decision models — 7–14 ms short decisions on M3 Max. No text generation, PyTorch, or cloud API. - mizorewww/laya-mlx
A short post (and I know I owe you all more) as I'm going to be in NY this week for Climate Week.
There’s often a short window between realizing the right thing to do and doing it, where a person goes crazy for a bit. ...
The control room was full, the way it always was when a run like this came in to land. Engineers hovered behind their workstations, a few sat perched on the edges of desks, and a…
Some short musings on the shape of language models, e.g. what it means to design a language model around a harness, and not the other way around.
AI short dramas, viral vertical videos, pictures, voice and music. Type one idea and MiniCut writes the script, casts the faces and generates every shot.
A short guide on starting a server to run personal web services you control, based on my experiences just starting out.
A short overview of the life of self-taught mathematician and astronomer Nathaniel Bowditch.
This is a fictional short story and no claim made reflects any real world event.
Write a UGC-style video ad script and generate it. The dialogue comes out of the same pass as the picture, so there is no voiceover to sync afterwards.
Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.
Bluetooth is great for connecting devices over short distances, but many factors affect its range. Those include Bluetooth specs, as well as the surroundings.
Being good at building and being good at shipping are two separate skills. In the short term, they’re actually countervailing: if you have a gift for building…