2025-06-13
vAttention Performance & Portability for LLM Prefill Phase
This section highlights vAttention's ability to add dynamic memory allocation support to unmodified FlashAttention and FlashInfer prefill kernels, simplifying development while boosting performance.
The Boat Theft Theory of Consciousness
Published on June 13, 2025 4:38 PM GMT[ Context: The Debate on Animal Consciousness, 2014 ] There's a story in Growing Up Yanomamo where the author, Mike Dawson, a white...
Xbox handheld rumoured to be 'essentially cancelled' but the new Asus Xbox Ally is actually a preview of all future Xbox consoles, not just handhelds
No more dedicated Xbox consoles built by Microsoft, so the story goes...
Google's AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media
Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company's latest tools, including its wildly hallucinating AI Overviews...
Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models
Published on June 13, 2025 4:15 PM GMTA key problem in alignment research is how to align superhuman models whose behavior humans cannot reliably supervise. If we use today’s standard...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: What to Do While I Wait for ChatGPT (6/13/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Pioneer 10 Crossed...
You Don’t Need an Extraordinary Life to Write Compellingly
Discover Observational Writing and how it can turn everyday moments into compelling stories—no extraordinary life required.
Behind the Blog: Advertising and Aircraft
This week, we discuss advertising, protests, and aircraft.
Someone Somehow Survived That Massive Boeing Jet Explosion
On Thursday, a Boeing jet crashed just moments after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad in western India. The Air India airliner, carrying 242 passengers, slammed into a nearby...
'225,000,000,000 attacks per day': Computer users and gamers are significantly more at risk of cybercrime than at any other time in the past
Fortunately, gaming companies and you, the humble PC gamer, can do plenty to help.
How to Write Custom Training Loops in Keras with GradientTape
This guide shows how to build custom training loops in Keras using GradientTape and tf.function, offering low-level control with real examples, including GAN training.
Code Smell 303 - How to Prevent Breaking Existing Clients When You Make Changes
You should version your APIs to prevent breaking existing clients when you make changes
Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis
OpenAI's ChatGPT is sending people spiraling into severe mental health crises, causing potentially dangerous delusions about spiritual awakenings, messianic complexes, and boundless paranoia. As the New York Times reports, these...
Lucky Omega Problem
Published on June 13, 2025 2:54 PM GMTThis is a later better version of the problem in this post. This problem emerged from my work in the "Deconfusing Commitment Races"...
The Trust Revolution in Online Gambling: History of Provable Fairness
Online gambling once relied on blind trust in licenses and flashy seals. Provably fair technology changed that - letting players verify outcomes with cryptographic proof. This article explores the rise...
Mio: Memories in Orbit has all the wonder of playing Inside for the first time and its devs are working hard to make it even better
Mio has made it onto my "most beautiful games" list.
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