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Management is the Near Future
Published on May 17, 2025 2:50 AM GMT Programmers have traditionally been contemptuous of management: if you're not writing code what are you even doing with your time? I picked...
References: Spectral Estimation, Signal Processing, and Quantum Computing
A list of key academic references in spectral estimation, signal processing techniques like Fourier analysis and super-resolution, and related applications
Lower Bound for Spectral Estimation in Noisy Super-Resolution
This section presents the theoretical lower bound on the error for estimating locations and intensities in spectral estimation under noisy super-resolution conditions.
Beyond Direct Sales - follow up story
Kickstarting Channel Partnerships to Grow Revenue
Eigenvector Perturbation in Aligning Matrix Construction for ESPRIT
Learn how the eigenvector perturbation lemma is used in the proof for constructing the crucial aligning matrix P in our analysis of the ESPRIT algorithm.
Godot 4.4.1 RC 2: What's New
21 contributors submitted around 39 improvements for this release. See the interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since the 4.4.1-rc1 snapshot.
Rust 1.85.1: Everything Included in It
The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.85.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable software
Puzzmo Is Getting a Native iOS App Monday
Scheduled to drop Monday, but you can click-through to pre-download it now. If you’re not familiar, Puzzmo is sort of a collection of “newspaper puzzle games for the online age”....
Practical advice for engineers in these troubled times
Since 2023, the rise of interest rates has caused a sea change in how software companies relate to their engineers. It’s harder to be a software engineer now than at...
For many, patience is the killer LLM feature
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to meter”. Right now, buoyed by venture capital, we’re living in that world. Every...
Why strong engineers are rarely blocked
Earlier in my career I used to get blocked1 constantly, but these days it’s rare. What changed? At first glance being blocked sounds like it’s outside your control, since it...
You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for the Wicked's latest saga
The founder of Moon Studios has become the action RPG's worst enemy.
Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why
Amazon, the multi-trillion dollar e-commerce monolith, seemingly cheaped out on keeping a key feature installed on its delivery six-propeller drones. And predictably, this backfired almost immediately. On a rainy December...
Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked
Published on May 16, 2025 10:26 PM GMTThere's this popular idea that socially anxious folks are just dying to be liked. It seems logical, right? Why else would someone be...
2025-05-16
The Internet Phone Book is “an annual publication for exploring the vast...
The Internet Phone Book is “an annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers,...
Events: Debate & Fiction Project
Published on May 16, 2025 9:51 PM GMTI'm doing a couple of events next week which people might be interested in attending:Event: Tsvi & Abram debate AI timelines. Abram expects...
It's actually far more than that, but most of the changes are on the database level. I did fix the f
It's actually far more than that, but most of the changes are on the database level. I did fix the feed submission form though - when adding your site, Enter...
How Fast Can Algorithms Advance Capabilities? | Epoch Gradient Update
Published on May 16, 2025 9:38 PM GMTI'm cross-posting my guest post on Epoch's Gradient Updates newsletter, in which I describe some new research from my team at UChicago's XLab...
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