10. Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware (www.hpcwire.com)

Nvidia is primarily known as a hardware company thanks to the wild success of its GPUs. But Nvidia is also a force in the world of software, thanks to its CUDA programming language that has become the defacto standard for AI and HPC developers. Now a group of CUDA experts at Spectral Compute are looking […]

11. Just Let Me Write Digits (gendx.dev)

Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years.They have also brought many controversies: age ...

12. Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection (ryanjk5.github.io)

If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a boilerplate-heavy library like Boost.TypeErasure or Folly.Poly. rjk::duck uses the magic that is C++26 reflection to remove these pain points while preserving all of the customization and performance.

16. Our Amish Language (www.thedial.world)

As my community modernized, we used Pennsylvania Dutch less and less. Now I

20. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (gwern.net)

I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the user’s values and preferences in order to amplify the principal—not replace them. I discuss a package of techniques and proposals to accomplish such ‘guardian angels’; dynamic evaluation of LLMs combined with active learning and elicitation and heavy inner-monologue search/data-augmentation.

22. Microsoft Deletes User's 25-Year-Old Account with Thousands Spent on Games (xcancel.com)

Microsoft DELETED my account AND OneDrive!!?? After ACKNOWLEDGING that I’m the owner of the account and that it was compromised???

25 fucking years of data, thousands of euros spended on games?? My son’s baby pictures? GONE!

All because MICROSOFT couldn’t bring back a compromised account??
One of the biggest companies ever coulnd’t do that so they just deleted that shit like it was nothing?? Fucking shame on you!! @microsoftnl @MicrosoftHelps @MicrosoftHelpt @Microsoft
#microsoft #hacked

24. Coding agents think ahead of time (arxiv.org)

A coding agent solving a software-engineering task spends dozens of steps reasoning, editing code, and running tests, yet little is known about what the underlying language model internally represents about the program it is working on. We show that the residual streams of language models under coding agents linearly encode properties of the evolving program: a logistic-regression probe on hidden states is able to decode whether the current code parses, passes its test suite, reduces the number of failing tests, and introduces regressions, reaching AUC up to 0.83 for correctness across two models and two benchmarks. Our second finding is more surprising: these representations run ahead of the agent's own edits. Probes trained to predict the outcome of future edits (before they are materialized and written on disk) achieve performance above chance up to roughly 25 steps in advance. We call this the agent's latent programming horizon. As a proof of external validity, we show that the probes transfer across benchmarks without retraining. Our positive results open calls for more research in mechanistic interpretability of coding agents.

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