My RubyConf talk is now on YouTube!
I was honored to present a talk on Ruby concurrency at RubyConf 2024. It represents a high-level distillation of much…
Hacking physics from the back of a napkin – David Wakeham – QML researcher
February 24, 2020. The computational power of a humble napkin is awesome. I discuss three napkin algorithms — dimensional analysis,…
Welcome to IRATA.ONLINE – a PLATO Service for Retro Computing Enthusiasts
TECH How do I make a terminal for this service? The Protocol that IRATA.ONLINE uses is an ASCII based protocol…
Starting a Business at 60: My Father’s Story
They say there’s no age limit to pursuing your dreams, but watching my 62-year-old father launch a business after retirement…
TeaVM — Release 0.11.0
New WebAssembly backend This release is mostly driven by development of new WebAssembly backend. Old WebAssembly backend exists for many…
When a Crystal Ball Isn’t Enough to Make You Rich
By Victor Haghani, James White and Jerry Bell Estimated reading time: 10 min. Introduction: Back to the Future In the…
Clever Hans, Plato, and Large Language Models
Artificial intelligence (AI) is inextricably linked to natural intelligence; however, for longer than this field has existed, philosophers and computer…
Add support for Qwen2VL by HimariO · Pull Request #10361 · ggerganov/llama.cpp · GitHub
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit. This suggestion is invalid because no…
DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc
An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering…
Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
Irrational Analysis is heavily invested in the semiconductor industry. Please check the ‘about’ page for a list of active positions….
What is Vim?
The answer seems fairly obvious – an editor. To some an obscure way to interact with your computer, to others…
I Track My Health Data in Markdown: Lessons in Digital Longevity
I’ve spent years tracking my sleep, diet, and exercise with apps and wearables. But here’s the problem: when an app…