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ever had a weird delay between when you play a video and when audio starts actually playing back on your #cachyOS install? i've solved it for my setup, here's how i did it: blog.sayan.page/cachyos-audi... essentially boils down to the audio devices going to a suspend mode that then needs to wake!
Fix audio delay in CachyOS
Do you have a delay when playing back audio from your AMD GPU over a display port cable? This should help fix it:
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spent some time learning mlx and write code the old way, by hand -- absolute joy! blog.sayan.page/gpt2-in-mlx/
Porting GPT-2 to MLX for fun!
what is MLX?
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Nils Rollshausen, Alexander Heinrich, Matthias Hollick, Jiska Classen: WatchWitch: Interoperability, Privacy, and Autonomy for the Apple Watch https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07210 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.07210
is it just me or does it start to worry you when you don’t hit your “learn something new” goals too many days in a row? #BuildInPublic #iosDev #SwiftUI
Just released! The Neurosynthetic Research Institute is launching the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 NeuroGolf Challenge. Implement ARC-AGI transformations by designing minimal neural networks. How simple can a model be and still solve the task?
Excited to launch the accompanying free RLHF Course for my book. To kick it off, I've released: - Welcome video - Lecture 1: Overview of RLHF & Post-training - Lecture 2: IFT, Reward Models, Rejection Sampling - Lecture 3: RL Math - Lecture 4: RL Implementation Landing page: rlhfbook.com/course
Course | RLHF Book by Nathan Lambert
Course lectures and talks on RLHF and post-training.
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Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852
ever wanted to use @duckduckgo.com style bangs but access it no matter what search engine you choose? now you can! go get Bangs! apps.apple.com/in/app/bangs... #iosdev #buildinpublic
Bangs! App - App Store
Download Bangs! by Sayan Goswami on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Bangs!.
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everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping 1/4
7yo: Dad can we go to Shake Shack for dinner? Me: No, we just went there on Monday 7yo: Pleeeeease Me: No, we're not going to do that 7yo: You're not hearing my feedback. Reopen this issue so that others can weigh in, and also commit to a timeline for reconsidering this Me: Who taught you that?
when youre coding & switch from listening to sad indie music to metal
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...
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that’s ingenious! tl;dr: someone used special characters in the branch name to escape the normal flow of github action steps and then injected a cryptominer in the published package.
Matt Keeter@mattkeeter.com · 2y agoabsolutely incredible attack vector
as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work
insane! this is one of the coolest demos i have seen in a while, would have loved if he booted it on stage too but impressive nonetheless. #framework youtu.be/l6khGznGeyY
Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage | Ubuntu Summit 2024
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu
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atproto aha moments: - you can host your data - it's just json - it's typed but any app dev can invent those types - records have URIs - records are signed so cacheable without trust - relay aggregates everyone’s events into a global stream - backends subscribe to relay and update local DBs
I remember reading this one of that series aphyr.com/posts/342-ty... and laughing too loudly at work. So fun and ridiculous.
Typing the technical interview
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Reminds me of MY favorite programming interview joke aphyr.com/posts/341-he...
Hexing the technical interview
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One of my favourite programming interview jokes: joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/f...
Joel Grus – Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
Posts and writings by Joel Grus
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Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos. Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
Here's some secret bluesky-only info: This is being filed with the USPTO TTAB tomorrow Don't share!
