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ECHO presents Suzanne Ciani’s 1976 Buchla Cookbook as an open digital edition — original patches, diagrams, and a conversation with Ciani on documenting the Buchla 200 for composers and practitioners.
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# The Shape of Inference ## Watch the film 18 seconds In 1964, two radio astronomers in Holmdel, New Jersey, were losing a war with pigeons.
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The Forgotten Battle of East Lansing
A deep local-history reconstruction of a little-known East Lansing conflict: what happened, why it faded from memory, and how archives and reporting put the battle back on the map.
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The Economics of Open-Weight Inference
How open-weight demand can support the useful life of NVIDIA GPU families. Selected figures and tables, limitations, and the full PDF.
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Serving LLMs on Tenstorrent Hardware: Inside the vLLM TT Plugin
vLLM and Tenstorrent introduce an out-of-tree TT plugin that registers Tenstorrent accelerators as a vLLM platform—covering mesh scheduling, single-process data parallel choices, and an unchanged OpenAI-compatible serving surface.
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LLM Attention VisualizationA visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs.
Isham Faizal built a browser-based tool that shows which past tokens a language model draws on when generating each new token. The implementation uses a custom generation loop with Transformers.js and a modified ONNX model to expose internal attention values, combined with pre-generated prompts to avoid multi-hundred-megabyte download waits.
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Bedrock 2.0 is a refreshed minimal Emacs starter kit that requires Emacs 31 and brings lexical binding, automatic package installation, improved tree-sitter configuration, and several other quality-of-life changes. The project remains a pair of files users copy once and then own outright.
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So you want to use OpenRouter?Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.
Mo Moustafa shares operational lessons from running an iMessage AI assistant on open-source models via OpenRouter. Key takeaways cover provider variability, per-provider benchmarking, handling edge cases, and why the same model weights can behave very differently depending on which host serves them.
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Optimizing anamorphic sculptures
Thiago Cardoso walks through creating and optimizing anamorphic sculptures—images that resolve only from a specific vantage—using computational geometry techniques.
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Pretraining and scaling as a methodology and scientific perspective
Jiaxuan Zou’s essay on pretraining and scaling as a shared methodology across language, robotics, and world models—covering learning conditions, training/inference milestones, efficiency, stability, and predictability as scientific research practice.
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Leaving VMware Just Got Harder After Broadcom Pulled VDDK Downloads
Broadcom has silently removed public downloads of VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit, a library that underpins migration tools from Azure Migrate to Red Hat's Migration Toolkit. Support has reportedly confirmed the VDDK is no longer available for general use. Microsoft has already revised its Azure Migrate docs to recommend agent-based rather than agentless migration when VDDK access is blocked.
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Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Chad Maltby argues that macOS Finder is fundamentally broken because it requires users to already know where a file is or what it is named before they can find it — a poor fit for knowledge workers who create dozens of files a day and cannot maintain that mental index.
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An essay arguing that handmade, attributable craft is the lasting advantage as AI-generated content floods the web—and why authenticity compounds while slop does not.
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OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI, alignment challenges, and why stronger safeguards and international coordination matter as models grow more alien in capability.
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Engineering trade-offs when building a multi-model AI gateway
Practical engineering notes on multi-model AI gateways: narrow common interfaces, request normalization, streaming, error handling, routing, cost tracking, and the limits of portability.
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Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?Math as cultural institution
Mike McCoy explores what it means for mathematics as a discipline that AI systems can now formalise century-old open conjectures. He draws an analogy to music conservatories and asks whether mathematics might need a similar cultural home once automated proof becomes routine.
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The author reflects on two kinds of programmers: those who code as a means to build products and earn money, and those who code as an end in itself, the way an artist paints. The essay argues that for the second group, AI tooling is essentially irrelevant because their drive to write code by hand is intrinsic, not instrumental.
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Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a longstanding Italian collective providing free privacy-respecting internet services, announces it is shutting down all services after being designated a global terrorist organisation. The collective warns users to back up their data and urges the community to stay human in the face of repression.
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Graft, Metatron, and the two kinds of context coding agents need
Pavel Kerbel contrasts Graft’s recoverable WHAT/WHERE code maps with Metatron’s reviewed WHY/WHY NOT engineering memory, arguing stronger models still need both layers—and proposing a factorial eval to prove it.
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Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (2× faster)
The gearhash crate has gained a NEON backend for improved performance. How a direct port started out slower than scalar, and the dependency-chain work that fixed it.
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