Northwestern University engineers have developed VoxeLite, a bandage-like haptic device that achieves 'human resolution' in recreating touch sensations. It uses an array of tiny, individually controlled nodes to simulate texture and tactile sensations with high clarity, detail, and speed.
This article details how the author successfully ran OpenAI's Codex CLI against a gpt-oss:120b model hosted on an NVIDIA DGX Spark, accessed through a Tailscale network. It covers the setup of Tailscale, Ollama configuration, and the process of running the Codex CLI with the remote model, including building a Space Invaders game.
Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL are charting a more "modular" path ahead for software development, breaking systems into "concepts" and "synchronizations" to make code clearer, safer, and easier for LLMs to generate.
MIT researchers are proposing a new software development approach centered around "concepts" and "synchronizations" to address issues of complexity, safety, and LLM compatibility in modern software.
Concepts are self-contained units of functionality (like "sharing" or "liking") with their own state and actions, whereas synchronizations are explicit rules defining how these concepts interact, expressed in a simple, LLM-friendly language.
The benefits include ncreased modularity, transparency, easier understanding for both humans and AI, improved safety, and potential for automated software development. Real-world application: has been demonstrated by successfully restructuring features (liking, commenting, sharing) to be more modular and legible.
Future includes concept catalogs, a shift in software architecture, and improved collaboration through shared, well-tested concepts.
MIT researchers are proposing a new software development approach centered around "concepts" and "synchronizations" to address issues of complexity, safety, and LLM compatibility in modern software.
Concepts are self-contained units of functionality (like "sharing" or "liking") with their own state and actions, whereas synchronizations are explicit rules defining how these concepts interact, expressed in a simple, LLM-friendly language.
The benefits include ncreased modularity, transparency, easier understanding for both humans and AI, improved safety, and potential for automated software development. Real-world application: has been demonstrated by successfully restructuring features (liking, commenting, sharing) to be more modular and legible.
Future includes concept catalogs, a shift in software architecture, and improved collaboration through shared, well-tested concepts.
A recent study shows that one large language model (LLM) demonstrates impressive linguistic analysis abilities, rivaling those of human linguistics graduate students. Researchers tested LLMs on complex linguistic tasks, including recursion and phonological rule inference, revealing that OpenAI’s o1 model performed significantly better than others, challenging conventional views on the limits of AI in understanding language.
Learn about interactive fiction and the Z-Machine with this guide, covering history, tooling, and creating your own text adventure game.
A discussion about finding pictures of ITS machines, with users sharing links to images and information about PDP-6 and PDP-10 systems.
- Raph Levien, who is an expert in Rust and rendering on GPUs, who founded Advogato, and who designed Inconsolata, a great monospace font. His talk's title is *I Want a Good Parallel Language*.
- Jeff Shrager will give a talk on reviving early AI programs like ELIZA and IPL-V. His talk's title is *RetroAI: Reanimating the Earliest AIs in the Lost Languages that Predated Lisp*.
- Jeff Shrager will give a talk on reviving early AI programs like ELIZA and IPL-V. His talk's title is *RetroAI: Reanimating the Earliest AIs in the Lost Languages that Predated Lisp*.
An exploration of the role of an ontologist, covering skills, tasks, differences from taxonomists, training resources, and the future of the field.
Educational interactive simulations created with generative AI tools and p5.js
An article detailing the history of LISP machines and the SCHEME-78 microprocessor, designed to closely match the LISP language, developed by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman. It discusses the motivations behind creating dedicated LISP hardware, its eventual decline, and its relevance to modern AI hardware.
