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NVIDIA: WTF?

SUPPORT THE AI DYSTOPIA REPORT SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopiaWe have corroborated rumors of a draw-down in NVIDIA consumer GPU supply into...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified

Projects with hardware in the water stopped due to Department of Defense fears.

arstechnica.com · Ars Technica

The Illustrated Transformer

Discussions: Hacker News (65 points, 4 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (29 points, 3 comments) Translations: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) 1, Chinese (Simplified) 2, French 1, French 2, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Vietnamese Watch: MIT’s Deep Learning State of the Art lecture referencing this post Featured in courses at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, CMU and others Update: This post has now become a book! Check out LLM-book.com which contains (Chapter 3) an updated and expanded version of this post speaking about the latest Transformer models and how they've evolved in the seven years since the original Transformer (like Multi-Query Attention and RoPE Positional embeddings). In the previous post, we looked at Attention – a ubiquitous method in modern deep learning models. Attention is a concept that helped improve the performance of neural machine translation applications. In this post, we will look at The Transformer – a model that uses attention to boost the speed with which these models can be trained. The Transformer outperforms the Google Neural Machine Translation model in specific tasks. The biggest benefit, however, comes from how The Transformer lends itself to parallelization. It is in fact Google Cloud’s recommendation to use The Transformer as a reference model to use their Cloud TPU offering. So let’s try to break the model apart and look at how it functions. The Transformer was proposed in the paper Attention is All You Need. A TensorFlow implementation of it is available as a part of the Tensor2Tensor package. Harvard’s NLP group created a guide annotating the paper with PyTorch implementation. In this post, we will attempt to oversimplify things a bit and introduce the concepts one by one to hopefully make it easier to understand to people without in-depth knowledge of the subject matter. 2025 Update: We’ve built a free short course that brings the contents of this post up-to-date with animations: A High-Level Look Let’s begin by looking at the model as a single black box. In a machine translation application, it would take a sentence in one language, and output its translation in another.

jalammar.github.io

Django Software Foundation

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

www.djangoproject.com · Django Project

Renting is for Suckers - Andrew Kelley

andrewkelley.me

US is ‘demolishing its scientific leadership with a wrecking ball,’ says chief EU research diplomat

In a parting shot before her retirement, the European Commission’s top science diplomat has castigated the US for destroying its reputation as a global scientific leader. Signe Ratso, who is in charge of negotiating global access to the EU’s €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, said on December 17 that the US was “still our most important research partner” but was “currently demolishing its scientific leadership with a wrecking ball.” 

sciencebusiness.net · Science|Business

archipylago

A friendly neighbourhood Python community in Turku.

archipylago.dev · archipylago

Django Software Foundation

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

www.djangoproject.com · Django Project

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut | Jeff Geerling

www.jeffgeerling.com

US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified

Projects with hardware in the water stopped due to Department of Defense fears.

arstechnica.com · Ars Technica

Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2025-12-23

2025年12月23日公開の覚え書き@kazuhitoの記事「Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2025-12-23」です。

kidachi.kazuhi.to

2025年に買ってよかったもの3選

2025年12月23日公開の覚え書き@kazuhitoの記事「2025年に買ってよかったもの3選」です。

kidachi.kazuhi.to

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes

It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!

webkit.org · WebKit

Optimizing CLS for Infinite Scroll and Load More

Even though Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) has been a well-known metric for about five years now, I still frequently encounter negative scores on major websites during my web performance audits. The most frequent causes of CLS I encounter fall into two categories: Promotional banners at the top

calendar.perfplanet.com · Web Performance Calendar

Simon Willison on delivering AI generated code

Quotes from ["Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/).

www.stefanjudis.com

Release v0.15.0 · askama-rs/askama

(❗ = breaking change) New features ❗ add caller pattern from jinja❗ by @pollend in #422 ❗Add new reject filter❗ by @GuillaumeGomez in #430 ❗Treat caller() as variable with support for aliasing❗ b...

github.com · GitHub

GitHub - dabeaz-course/practical-python: Practical Python Programming (course by @dabeaz)

Practical Python Programming (course by @dabeaz). Contribute to dabeaz-course/practical-python development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com · GitHub

Early signs of EAA enforcement across Europe - Deque

As 2025 comes to a close, we wanted to be sure you’re aware of some recent EU and European Accessibility Act (EAA)-related news items that may be of use in your conversations with internal risk and legal teams.

www.deque.com · Deque

Japan’s H3 suffers second-stage anomaly, QZS-5 satellite lost

Japan’s H3 suffers second-stage anomaly, QZS-5 satellite lost Japan’s flagship H3 rocket suffered issues with its second stage late Sunday resulting in the loss of the Michibiki 5 (QZS-5) navigation satellite.

spacenews.com · SpaceNews

US is ‘demolishing its scientific leadership with a wrecking ball,’ says chief EU research diplomat

In a parting shot before her retirement, the European Commission’s top science diplomat has castigated the US for destroying its reputation as a global scientific leader. Signe Ratso, who is in charge of negotiating global access to the EU’s €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, said on December 17 that the US was “still our most important research partner” but was “currently demolishing its scientific leadership with a wrecking ball.” 

sciencebusiness.net · Science|Business

Calibrating A Printer With Computer Vision And Precise Timing

[Dennis] of [Made by Dennis] has been building a Voron 0 for fun and education, and since this apparently wasn’t enough of a challenge, decided to add a number of scratch-built improvements and mod…

hackaday.com · Hackaday