August
Links
- https://ioccc.org/2024/index.html The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
- https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref So you want to parse a PDF?
- https://midnight.pub midnight.pub
- https://kaggle.com/game-arena AI Chess Exhibition Tournament Final Winners
- https://blog.google/technology/ai/kaggle-game-arena/ Rethinking how we measure AI intelligence
- https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
- https://cacm.acm.org/research/alloy/ Alloy: A Language and Tool for Exploring Software Designs
- https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Lessons-from-Building-Manus Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest Keynesian beauty contest
- https://huggingface.co/blog/tomaarsen/attention-sinks Attention Sinks in LLMs for endless fluency
- https://collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/08/06/writing-a-rust-gpu-kernel-driver-a-brief-introduction-on-how-gpu-drivers-work/ Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work
- https://baseten.co/blog/sota-performance-for-gpt-oss-120b-on-nvidia-gpus/ How we run GPT OSS 120B at 500+ tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs
- https://simulation-argument.com The Simulation Argument
- https://xbow.com/blog/alloy-agents Agents Built From Alloys
- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/ GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card
- https://mitxela.com/projects/fluid-pendant Fluid Simulation Pendant
- https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/tenMinutePhysics/index.html Ten Minute Physics
- https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/ How to Scale Your Model
- https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/gemma-3n-how-to-run-and-fine-tune Gemma 3n: How to Run & Fine-tune
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07284 A Robust, Open-Source Framework for Spiking Neural Networks on Low-End FPGAs
- https://matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the ARC Challenge
- https://lesswrong.com/posts/fPvssZk3AoDzXwfwJ/universal-basic-income-and-poverty Universal Basic Income and Poverty
- https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/from-gpt-2-to-gpt-oss-analyzing-the From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
- https://grapheneos.org GrapheneOS
- https://xlerobot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ XLeRobot
- https://apple1registry.com/en/list.html Newton Apple-1 Registry List of all known 92 (almost) verified Apple-1
- https://petewarden.com/2015/04/20/why-gemm-is-at-the-heart-of-deep-learning/ Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning
- https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/ What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
- https://yosefk.com/blog/llms-arent-world-models.html LLMs aren’t world models
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science List of pioneers in computer science
- https://xvw.lol/en/articles/why-ocaml.html Why I chose OCaml as my primary language
- https://ninoristeski.github.io/blogs/how-i-started-contributing-to-tinygrad.html How I Started Contributing to tinygrad — My First 4 Merged PRs
- https://blog.comma.ai/rlcontrols/ RL for car controls
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA-ES Covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES)
- https://blog.ezyang.com/2025/08/state-of-torch-compile-august-2025/ State of torch.compile for training (August 2025)
- https://tokenbender.com/post.html?id=avatarl avatarl: training language models from scratch with pure reinforcement learning
- https://jamierubin.net/2024/08/05/a-pilgrimage-to-john-von-neumanns-birthplace/ A Pilgrimage to John von Neumann’s Birthplace
- https://ai.meta.com/blog/dinov3-self-supervised-vision-model/ DINOv3: Self-supervised learning for vision at unprecedented scale
- https://seangoedecke.com/model-on-a-mbp/ What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
- https://osec.io/blog/2025-08-11-compiler-bug-causes-compiler-bug Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity
- https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2024/ml-in-go-with-a-python-sidecar ML in Go with a Python sidecar
- https://sander.ai/2025/04/15/latents.html Generative modelling in latent space
- https://kaggle.com/competitions/google-code-golf-2025 NeurIPS 2025 - Google Code Golf Championship
- https://arcprize.org/blog/hrm-analysis The Hidden Drivers of HRM's Performance on ARC-AGI
- https://drobinin.com/posts/how-i-accidentally-became-puregyms-unofficial-apple-wallet-developer/ How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch Pfeilstorch
- https://seangoedecke.com/good-system-design/ Everything I know about good system design
- https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154624000391?via%3Dihub Cognition is an emergent property
- https://gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-neural-networks Tversky Neural Networks
- https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19420862.2025.2545601 What does AlphaFold3 learn about antibody and nanobody docking, and what remains unsolved?
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19722 JetFormer: An Autoregressive Generative Model of Raw Images and Text
- https://mrgreene09.github.io/computational-neuroscience-textbook/ Computational Neuroscience
- https://www.math.toronto.edu/ivan/mat327/?resources MAT327 • TOPOLOGY
- https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05%2F12_gemma3 Gemma 3 270M From Scratch
- https://michalpitr.substack.com/ From Scratch - Substack
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral Ulam spiral
- https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2025/08/19/how-we-exploited-coderabbit-from-a-simple-pr-to-rce-and-write-access-on-1m-repositories/ How We Exploited CodeRabbit: From a Simple PR to RCE and Write Access on 1M Repositories
- https://motherduck.com/blog/semantic-layer-duckdb-tutorial/ Why Semantic Layers Matter — and How to Build One with DuckDB
- https://arcprize.org/blog/arc-agi-3-preview-30-day-learnings ARC-AGI-3 Preview: 30-day learnings
- https://press.asimov.com/articles/cell-weight The Weight of a Cell
- https://github.com/xforcered/PhrackCTF Phrack 40th Anniversary CTF Challenge
- https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/gpus/ How to Think About GPUs
- https://www.nmichaels.org/musings/d4d4/d4d4/ D4D4
- https://blog.comma.ai/010release/ openpilot 0.10
- https://kindxiaoming.github.io/blog/2024/kolmogorov-arnold-networks/ Philosophical thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theorem Universal approximation theorem
- https://craigmccaskill.com/ai-bubble-history The Bubble That Knows It's a Bubble
- https://rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone-101/ Burner Phone 101
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16204 Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion
- https://austinvernon.site/blog/standardthermal.html Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV
- https://guangxuanx.com/blog/stacking-swa.html Why Stacking Sliding Windows Can't See Very Far
- https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/r.vandenboomgaard/MachineLearning/LectureNotes/ProbabilityStatistics/probDistributions.html 2.6. Probability Distributions
- https://mordecwhy.substack.com/p/chapter-1-introduction AI: How We Got Here—A Neuroscience Perspective
- https://www.vimgolf.com/ Vim Golf
- https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/conservation/monument-pigeon-aldo-leopold/ On a Monument to the Pigeon, by Aldo Leopold
- https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf Essential Coding Theory
- https://t3x.org/lfn/index.html LISP FROM NOTHING
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/nanotron/ultrascale-playbook?section=high-level_overview The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters
- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668173v1 Scaling down protein language modeling with MSA Pairformer
- https://algassert.com/post/2500 Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?