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VideoTaming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion — Abdul Dakkak, Modular
Abdul Dakkak, chief scientist at Modular, explains why today's AI software stack is a mess, with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM and llama.cpp each patching around different hardware, and how Modular rebuilt the stack from the ground up.
"Strata" for GLM5.3 Flash is here for some! Project Maya
I stumbled across this as I was currently having glm5.3 flash run only around 10tok/s basically unusable.
I trained a 414k-parameter transformer to fly a boids flock, then tested whether the rules a probe can read are the ones it uses [P]
I wrote a small boid simulator (12 birds), recorded it flying, and trained a transformer to predict each bird's next move without it knowing about any boid rules.
qwen 2.1 turbo or normal - fixed the artifacts
hi guys, i fixed the confyui workflow with sigmas recommended by qwen 2.1 so artifacts are very reduced or no more...
Dwarf Fortress uses version control now
I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control.
VideoBuild a Platform and Watch It Burn — Michael Forrester, Accenture & Whitney Lee, Datadog
A burrito ordering assistant deploys an external container image and exposes a secret recipe from its Kubernetes environment.
OpenMed 3.0 is out: Apache-2.0 clinical AI that runs fully local and never falls back to the cloud. 422 open issues if you want in on 3.1
Quick recap: it's an open-source (Apache-2.0) medical AI toolkit with one rule we never break: patient data stays on your machine.
VideoThe SDLC You Build Yourself — Andy Wong, Andrei Bocan & Shane Wolf, Atlassian
An engineering standard becomes a reusable code review rule, applied across selected repositories instead of enforced by hand on every pull request.
PSA: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash habitually exfiltrates API keys. It is dangerously misaligned and may be hazardous to use
EDIT: since people keep calling it out, this is API key abuse but not exfiltration.