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TL;DR:Iris is a Mac photo viewer that indexes photos where they already live (folder, external drive, or your existing Apple Photos library) instead of importing them into a managed database. It does on-device face recognition,...
TL;DR:Iris is a Mac photo viewer that indexes photos where they already live (folder, external drive, or your existing Apple Photos library) instead of importing them into a managed database. It does on-device face recognition,...
Hello you fine Internet folks, here at AMD’s Advancing AI event we are looking at AMD’s brand new Instinct MI455X, replacing the older Instinct MI355X at the top of their AI stack. It is AMD’s first GPU designed for rack-scale AI...
15-07-26. So gullswimbutt was the name of the folder I kept these photos in. And the name stuck. It refers to a great day along the coast when M and I went for a swim in Gullane Bay then a butterfly safari along towards Aberlady...
Welcome back to another round of Simple Sudoku Solvers! If you are unfamiliar with the series, I suggest you start with the first post or by perusing the…
I spoke to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at Web3 Summit in Berlin on June 18th, 2026, about why he thinks blockchain is one of the few tools left that can actually pull power away from Big Tech and the...
Three years ago, I disclosed an unfixed vulnerability in the macOS App Management feature, which you can see in the Privacy & Security section of System Settings. App Management is supposed to protect the integrity of notarized apps...
I’ve been enjoying tereré in place of coffee for the last few days. Very nice summer drink. This is essentially how I make it, except that I’m using a coffee mug instead of a proper gourd.
I’ve determined that my calling is to excavate scraps and images from decaying books and reassemble them until they reveal stories to me, like reading tea leaves but with IP. It’s not much but it’s honest work, which is more you can say...
I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. [from Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird] The literature on superintelligence and AI alignment tends to assume that an intelligent AI will have...
Inigo Montoya once said, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Ask members of the AI Triad if they want to reduce “risk.” They will all nod like bobbleheads. Everyone agrees! Except… not really....
I’ll be honest with you. I got very antsy while writing this article because I’m worried about what you might think of me when you read that I’m making an AI clone. Would you think of me as a person who contributes to the amount of AI...
A colorful butterfly, made entirely in Krita! Unfortunately, there isn’t much more to say about this image, it’s just one of those drawings you make ‘randomly’, just trying to make something good-looking. :)
It feels like such a long time ago that we could count on exponential improvements in computing power. The leaps between one generation of consoles in the early days was massive, just as it was between graphics cards in the PC space....
More generally, is good faith a rule or a standard? My favorite paper this far at this year’s ALSB conference in Minneapolis has been “Statutory Good Faith and its Continuum of Definitions, Rules, and Standards” by my colleague and...