# algorithm (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 275 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover algorithm. Page: Feed: --- ## [Paving the way for greener ammonia production](https://news.mit.edu/2026/paving-way-for-greener-ammonia-production-0820) _2026-08-20 · David L. Chandler | Department of Materials Science and Engineering · MIT News - Artificial intelligence_ New MIT research could lead to better materials for a fossil-fuel-free process for making the chemical that's essential to fertilizer and other products. ## [When life calls for causal analysis](https://www.junkcharts.com/when-life-calls-for-causal-analysis/) _2026-08-19 · Kaiser Fung · Junk Charts_ Important issue facing a modern way of earning a living ## [Linklog | Compression is prediction](https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction?utm_campaign=Data_Elixir&utm_source=Data_Elixir_585&_bhlid=1d325396ac3c46d76d73e5765b22ac1702ee2b76) _2026-08-19 · Nicolas Chagnet's Homepage_ Incredible article about compression algorithms, with insane visualizations. ## SciPy 0.1 was released on this day in 2001 _2026-08-19 · janmr.com_ SciPy 0.1 was released on this day in 2001 https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-August/106419.html ## [When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data](https://news.mit.edu/2026/when-ai-art-has-no-author-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-to-training-data-0818) _2026-08-18 · Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL · MIT News - Artificial intelligence_ A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves. ## [Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens](https://news.mit.edu/2026/qa-eugene-fitzgerald-rethinking-how-innovation-happens-0817) _2026-08-17 · Jason Sparapani | Department of Materials Science and Engineering · MIT News - Artificial intelligence_ In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas. ## [lfsr math in pitfall!](https://devnonsense.com/posts/pitfall-lfsr-math/) _2026-08-17 · /dev/nonsense_ A few weeks ago I attended VCF West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. One of my favorite talks was Making Games in the 1980s by David Crane and Garry Kitchen about the unique constraints of programming for the Atari 2600. Crane mentioned one hack in particular from his game Pitfall! that inspired this blog post. Pitfall! is a platform game in which you control a character named… ## [How to Use Three.JS's new Native Gaussian Splats](https://ben3d.ca/blog/how-to-use-threejs-native-gaussian-splats) _2026-08-17 · Ben Houston's Website_ How to use Three.js's native Gaussian Splatting support (GaussianSplatMesh, SPZLoader) — loading .spz/.ksplat/.splat/glTF splats, picking a file format, and a full capture-to-render workflow with Polycam, Luma AI, and SuperSplat. ## [Bitcoin Algorithm Report #0003](https://algorithm.substack.com/p/bitcoin-algorithm-report-0003) _2026-08-16 · Algorithm · Algorithm_ “Hold the line…” ## [A faster way to calculate the Day of the Week](https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-day-of-week) _2026-08-16 · BenJoffe.com_ A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qvmWHvgd1q4d) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Weak Formulation of Elliptic PDEs _2026-08-16 · janmr.com_ Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Weak Formulation of Elliptic PDEs https://janmr.com/posts/finite-element-method/continuous/elliptic-weak-form/ ## [Turkish cats and other spectacles](https://tekhne.dev/spectacles-001/) _2026-08-15 · tekhne · tékhnē.dev_ A few things I saw lately ## [Making RL Work Out-of-the-Box (WIP)](/talk/rlc26-autorl-out-box/) _2026-08-15 · Antonin Raffin | Homepage_ ## [The First Scaling Theory](https://imagine27.com/post/the-first-scaling-theory/) _2026-08-15 · imagine27_ How a mind scales when the interpreter can evaluate PDF version The claim. Work scales as evaluation. Write it as math — terms, equations, substitution that preserves meaning — and run it on a runtime: agent, record, checks. Scale is then specification quality, not headcount. That is the breakthrough. It is already running. A stranger can check it; they do not have to take… ## [Python Challenge – Speed, Distance & Time Calculator](https://www.101computing.net/python-challenge-speed-distance-time-calculator/) _2026-08-14 · Administrator · 101 Computing_ Whether you are calculating the speed of a car, estimating how far a sound wave has travelled, or working out how long it takes light to reach the Earth, the relationship between speed, distance and time is used in many … Read more › The post Python Challenge – Speed, Distance & Time Calculator first appeared on 101 Computing . ## [Fun with AI](https://www.junkcharts.com/fun-with-ai/) _2026-08-14 · Kaiser Fung · Junk Charts_ Dario debates Altman ## [Neural appearance models in Three.js](https://ben3d.ca/blog/neural-appearance) _2026-08-14 · Ben Houston's Website_ A material lives in a small learned latent texture and a shared decoder MLP instead of hand-authored PBR channels. This walks the whole system — why conventional mipmapping breaks, the auto-decoder architecture, distillation from a MaterialX teacher, hand-written WGSL backpropagation, the runtime, and what still doesn't work. ## [Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop?](https://www.adspthepodcast.com/2026/08/14/Episode-299.html) _2026-08-14 · ADSP: The Podcast_ In this episode, Conor and Bryce discuss the role of humans in the loop with AI and code review in the age of AI. ## [Darkness is losing its war with the light](https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/darkness-is-losing-its-war-with-the-light/) _2026-08-13 · Simon Allison · Coda Story_ Nothing on Earth is as sure as night following day. An American tech start-up with military backing wants to change that. Not everyone thinks a brighter future is such a good idea. The post Darkness is losing its war with the light appeared first on Coda Story . ## [Cloudflare redirect ruleset auth error: the permission I couldn't find](https://www.simonpainter.com/cloudflare-redirect-permissions) _2026-08-13 · Simon Painter · Simon Painter Blog_ I hit a Cloudflare authorisation error while creating a redirect ruleset in Terraform. The error was correct: the token did not have enough rights. ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aXNA5q9XndC7) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions](https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2026-lobsters-submissions/?mtm_campaign=feed) _2026-08-12 · Abhinav Sarkar · All Posts & Notes on abhinavsarkar.net_ I have been a Lobsters member since June 2018. In the eight years since, I have submitted 220 stories to the site. I downloaded my entire submission history via the Lobsters API, and here’s what I found when I analyzed it. Contents Growth over Years Yearly Overview Most Upvoted Stories Most Discussed Stories Score Distribution Comment Distribution Score vs Comment Count Story Tags Authored vs… ## [Protective DNS: An Essential Security Control for Hybrid Cloud Networks](https://www.simonpainter.com/protective-dns) _2026-08-11 · Simon Painter · Simon Painter Blog_ DNS sits at the heart of every internet transaction, translating human-readable domain names into the IP addresses that actually route traffic. It's so fundamental that most organisations barely think about it until something goes wrong. But DNS is also foundational in a different way for attackers: it's the layer where malware reaches out for instructions, where phishing links resolve, and where… ## [Transmogrifying](https://yaqeen.me/blog/transmogrifying) _2026-08-11 · Abdulmumin Yaqeen_ ## [With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios](https://news.mit.edu/2026/ai-models-simulate-wider-range-of-real-world-scenarios-0810) _2026-08-10 · Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL · MIT News - Artificial intelligence_ “GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately. ## [The manufactured crisis of Ceuta](https://www.codastory.com/polarization/the-manufactured-crisis-of-ceuta/) _2026-08-10 · Irina Matchavariani · Coda Story_ Rumors and disinformation spread through social media and an attempt to twist the narrative for political ends are at the heart of Europe’s panic about migration and sovereignty. The post The manufactured crisis of Ceuta appeared first on Coda Story . ## [Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance goes GA](https://www.simonpainter.com/azure-virtual-network-routing-appliance-ga) _2026-08-10 · Simon Painter · Simon Painter Blog_ Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance has moved from awkward public preview to general availability. That matters because the preview post left a few open questions: how it would be priced, whether metrics would exist, how much capacity it could really take, and whether it was even remotely ready for production use. ## [Fast Haskell Scripts on GitHub Actions](https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/fast-haskell-scripts-on-github-actions/?mtm_campaign=feed) _2026-08-10 · Abhinav Sarkar · All Posts & Notes on abhinavsarkar.net_ Magix is a neat tool that lets us run Haskell programs as scripts 1 . We put a shebang on top mentioning Magix, list the Haskell packages we need, and ./script.hs just works. This post is about running such a script fast(er) on GitHub Actions . ## [Bitcoin Algorithm Report #0002](https://algorithm.substack.com/p/bitcoin-algorithm-report-0002) _2026-08-09 · Algorithm · Algorithm_ "An autopilot rally...". ## [News for July 2026](https://ptreview.sublinear.info/2026/08/news-for-july-2026/) _2026-08-09 · Akash · Property Testing Review_ Last month saw seven papers covering a reasonable range of topics in property testing. Our line up contains diversions in distribution testing, graph property testing and quantum. Let us start with a result from the quantum land on spectrum estimation. (And oh, let me add that all em-dashes in this post are human generated). Spectrum \[…\] ## [AI for humans](https://alex.smola.org/posts/49-ai-for-humans/) _2026-08-09 · Alex Smola_ Tomorrow I am giving one of the invited talks in the Applied Data Science track at KDD 2026 in Jeju, Korea. It’s a builder’s tour of some of the audio stack at Boson AI in three parts: how we train models that can hold a conversation, how we design benchmarks that tell us whether the next model is actually better, and how we decide which benchmarks are worth running at all. There’ll be a show and… ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Dp0a2yXAKGKd) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## TheoremDB — A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit _2026-08-09 · janmr.com_ TheoremDB — A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit https://theoremdb.org ## [philosophy major](https://devnonsense.com/posts/philosophy-major/) _2026-08-09 · /dev/nonsense_ I majored in Philosophy at UC Berkeley. People sometimes ask about my philosophy training and say things like, “there should be more Philosophy majors in tech.” I’m never quite sure what they mean by that. I do know that I loved studying Philosophy. Here’s a picture of me from 2007 in Tours, France, thrilled to have found a statue of Descartes (and also to have finished the… ## [The Politics of the Dropdown](https://ozgur.ca/notes/the-politics-of-the-dropdown) _2026-08-09 · Oz Gultekin_ A complaint arrived through the contact form of blogroll.blog about the wrong flag on a listed blog. The flag was drawn by a standard, the standard follows the United Nations, and the United Nations inherited a fight from 1971. There is no neutral country list. The dropdown has already chosen. ## [The Architecture of Alienation](https://ozgur.ca/notes/the-architecture-of-alienation) _2026-08-09 · Oz Gultekin_ The flight into solo work is sold as freedom. Read through Marx, Wilde, Luxemburg, and the wages-for-housework feminists, it looks more like an old machine rebuilt inside the home, where the worker now pays to work, teaches the machine to replace them, and calls it independence. ## [The Quantum Mechanics of Discrete Optimization I](https://iagoleal.com/posts/quantum-optimization/) _2026-08-09 · Iago Leal de Freitas · Iago's Blog_ How to reformulate a classical discrete unconstrained optimization model into a quantum mechanical system. ## [Linklog | A Tale of Dynamic Programming](https://iagoleal.com/posts/dynamic-programming/#fn1) _2026-08-08 · Nicolas Chagnet's Homepage_ A very rich blog post on dynamic programming, very pedagogical too! ## [Book review: Parable of the Sower](https://shivankaul.com/blog/parable-of-the-sower) _2026-08-08 · Pistachio Musings_ Originally published at https://shivankaul.com/blog/parable-of-the-sower . Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Given how seminal Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler is as a work of speculative and dystopian fiction, it’s surprising it took me this long to get to it. I think I was put off by how bleak I’d heard it to be. Also, while I’d loved Bloodchild , it had taken me a week to… ## [Adding Native Gaussian Splatting Support to Three.js](https://ben3d.ca/blog/gaussian-splatting-for-threejs) _2026-08-07 · Ben Houston's Website_ How I added Gaussian Splatting to Three.js with WebGPU, TSL, a reusable GPU counting sort, SPZ v3/v4 and interoperability loaders, and SH1-SH3 view-dependent color. ## [Coin Parity with a Balance Scale](https://snwagh.com/blog/2026/coin-parity/) _2026-08-07 · blank_ You have 2ⁿ visually identical coins, each weighing 0 or 1 gram. In at most n weighings on a balance scale, you can always determine whether the count of zero-weight coins is even or odd. The key is a binary search over a swap path. ## [Episode 298: Design of APIs, UIs & Algorithms](https://www.adspthepodcast.com/2026/08/07/Episode-298.html) _2026-08-07 · ADSP: The Podcast_ In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about the design of APIs, UIs & algorithms! ## [Four Questions Every SEO Project Should Answer](https://www.seo-theory.com/four-questions-every-seo-project-should-answer/) _2026-08-06 · Michael Martinez · SEO Theory_ \[ Summary \] Use four questions to guide every SEO project: What are you saying? How will people discover it? Why should anyone trust it? Who is it really for? Align publisher intent, useful content, discovery systems, reputation, and audience purpose. Avoid formulas, keyword-driven filler, and shallow tactics. Build relationships that help people find meaningful... ## Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Example of Weak Solution to the Poisson Problem _2026-08-06 · janmr.com_ Introduction to the Finite Element Method: Example of Weak Solution to the Poisson Problem https://janmr.com/posts/finite-element-method/continuous/poisson-weak-example/ ## [A novel method for input privacy from LLMs](https://snwagh.com/blog/2026/stained-glass-transform/) _2026-08-06 · blank_ The Stained Glass Transform is a transformer-based network trained to scramble token embeddings while preserving their utility under LLM inference. The output is somewhat magical: the model still produces coherent output but the original prompt is unrecoverable. ## [What AI First Engineering Orgs Look Like](https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/ai-first-org) _2026-08-06 · Arpit Bhayani_ Every process a software team runs was built to manage a scarce resource. For twenty years that resource was engineering time. Waterfall managed it with sequencing. Agile managed it with short cycles and constant renegotiation. Both approaches assume the same thing: writing code is the expensive step, so protect it with process. ## [Heard at JSM](https://www.junkcharts.com/heard-at-jsm/) _2026-08-05 · Kaiser Fung · Junk Charts_ On dropping missing data ## [Why you can no longer spot a poker bot at the table](https://poker-ai.org/why-you-can-no-longer-spot-a-poker-bot-at-the-table/) _2026-08-05 · Andrew Kuznetsov · Tech blog of Andrew Kuznetsov_ TL;DR. Throw out the guides. Seriously, delete them. The ones about identical timing or silence in chat are dead weight. It s 2026. You sit at a table and you cannot tell a top-tier bot from a live player. Not by eye. Not anymore. Modern engines randomize their pauses — and not dumb randomization, the pauses scale \[ \] The post Why you can no longer spot a poker bot at the table appeared first on… ## [Top-down mergesort with sorted check has mergecost (H+3)n](https://www.wild-inter.net/posts/mergesort-sorted-check) _2026-08-04 · Sebastian Wild's Site_ Simple proof that standard mergesort with a single extra comparison is run-adaptive in a rather strong sense. We consider standard top-down recursive mergesort, where we do a single comparison before calling merge, to check whether the two recursively sorted subproblems happen to already be correctly ordered. (If so, we can skip the merging step.) We show that for any input $A\[0..n)$ consisting of… ## [Solving the solvent problem](https://news.mit.edu/2026/solving-solvent-problem-sodium-metal-batteries-0804) _2026-08-04 · Steve Nadis | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering · MIT News - Artificial intelligence_ By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option. ## [Vibe-mathing: the Generalized Vanishing Conjecture](https://royvanrijn.com/blog/2026/08/vibe-mathing-the-generalized-vanishing-conjecture/) _2026-08-04 · royvanrijn_ I am a developer . Right now it is difficult to ignore the argument around “ vibe coding .” People who could not have written an application in the traditional way are describing what they want to an AI, running the result, reporting what broke, and iterating. Some of the resulting software is fragile . Some of it is surprisingly capable. Either way, the phenomenon is real . The uncomfortable part… ## [MCP is Now a Stateless Protocol](http://localhost:8000/mcp-is-now-a-stateless-protocol.html) _2026-08-04 · Lex Toumbourou · NotesByLex.com_ A new MCP specification that removes handshakes and mandatory sessions.