thought
36 stories and discussions about thought, aggregated from every source we track.
Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.
This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge What I Benchmarked A while...
I thought I understood WordPress theme development because I knew HTML, CSS, PHP, templates, and the...
When I first started using TypeScript, I thought it was basically JavaScript with types. Add a few...
<p>This was djb's solution for the need to <a href="https://vimeo.com/18279777" rel="ugc">encrypt the entire internet</a>. Even if it has not got much traction or buzz I thought it's design was, at the very least, well thought out and might be appreciated here.</p>
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, faster than…
Learn how researchers found that dogs’ brains use consonants to pick out patterns in speech, and what that could mean for the way your dog hears you.
Open a free pack of HTML tags, attributes, CSS properties and typefaces every day, and build a personal site that can only use the cards you own.
New estimates using the planet’s surface wrinkles show that our smallest planet is growing even smaller, at a faster clip than expected.
We thought we had a perfect SEO playbook: create a landing page for every service people may need SMS verification for, rank for those searches, and tur...
I thought treatment meant stepping away from work. My IOP looked a lot more like group therapy next to a coworking space.
Now that most of us are fully in the "Acceptance" stage, I thought it would be fun to look back on the past 3-4 years of this madness from the perspective of a typical…
MIT researchers recreated a Venus-like stew of 98% sulfuric acid to test complex signaling molecules, like peptides, in the lab. Looks like they passed.
How about using the "426 Upgrade Required" HTTP response code to signal our AI friend that the server requires a human?
Researchers have worried about the increasing power of AI systems for years, but an explosion of interest has ignited old controversies about exactly how AI will cause chaos.
A thought experiment about AI, tech valuations, and what today's market would look like through the eyes of someone from 2020.
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, faster than…
How a one-line tool trick pries hidden chain-of-thought out of frontier models and what it does, and doesn’t, tell us about the distillation fight over Chinese open weight models
The rapid capability gains of frontier language models are widely attributed to improved reasoning abilities, yet this cannot be verified as raw CoT traces in closed-source systems are hidden. By registering a simple…
The safety of a tool-using language model agent is usually treated as a property of the model alone. We give controlled, full-precision evidence that it is instead a joint property of the model and the software that…
RippleNav is an instrument that responds to your thoughts and used mainly for self exploration. Access the official app here.