There is certainly quite a bit more to optimise in local inference–Simon got around 72% more throughput from MTP speculative decoding–even if most readily available (and not hugely overpriced) consumer hardware still can’t quite get to the point where memory bandwidth makes dense models usable interactively. I can’t wait for an A3B or adaptive...

Harnesses manage the systems around agents, from the session, to the company, to the domain.

The folks at Microsoft Azure recently wrote up a post incident review for a networking issue in their West U.S region. From the included timeline, it looks like the impact was on the order of five hours. It’s a pretty short write-up, but let’s take a look at the contributors. On 23 July 2026, a … Continue reading Quick thoughts on Azure Regional...

Facing it head-on from the sidewalk, 1001 Fifth Avenue is impressive enough—a 23-story residential building clad in a limestone facade topped by what looks like a mansard roof that stretches into the sky. Viewed from the side, however, and this mansard roof is just a massive limestone slab supported by steel buttresses, creating no extra […]

A vaguely described UAE-owned satellite is likely to conduct remote sensing tasks following its orbital delivery.

# Due diligence for charitable giving Nonprofits in the United States disclose detailed information about their finances and operations to the public. These disclosures are stored in a searchable [government database](https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/), but I prefer ProPublica's [Nonprofit Explorer](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/)...

I’m in San Francisco staying with my friend Kevin Kelly. He and I have been having conversations about AI and writing for many moons, way back before ChatGPT was a thing. Last night, before heading off to bed, he told me he now thinks of himself as writing for AI. The LLMs are the audience. […] The post Meat (a short story) appeared first on Hugh...

It was today that I found out just how much I’ve contributed to various LLMs. If you hate the way AI writing sounds, you’ll probably hate my books. And the whole em dash thing is seriously my fault. Click here to see how much you taught AI to write! The post My bad. appeared first on Hugh Howey.

Just hearing about this upcoming 6-part series with Barack Obama discussing his favorite books! I’ll definitely listen. But sounds like the “podcast” will be exclusive to Audible, so not actually a podcast.

The first post in the recent series of posts on Hadamard matrices describes a way of constructing new Hadamard matrices from two other Hadamard matrices by taking their Kronecker product. Starting with a Hadamard matrix H0 and a Hadamard matrix G, you can construct a sequence of Hadamard matrices by Hn+1 = G ⊗ Hn for […] The post Proportion of...