Tag: research
Centrality is not vitality
Don't automatically reach for PageRank on dependency graphs
Showing Our Work
An independent benchmark of the ecosyste.ms Python fund
The intoxicating atmosphere of the past
Exploring the sensory details of late Sengoku Japan, from the smell of cedar to the weight of a matchlock.
Health Care Manual for UV by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment (Jun 14, 2021)
環境省 環境保健部 紫外線保健指導マニュアル 2020
Parasols (and UV umbrellas) in Japan (Aug 28, 2021)
With additional notes from July 3, 2023
AT-URIs as persistent identifiers for scholarly blogging
Every post on this blog now has a persistent AT-URI via the standard.site spec---more durable than bare URLs, less overhead than DOIs.
The expiration date of Japanese products (June 6, 2021)
Or the shelf life (unopened) and PAO (Period After Opening) for cosmetics and quasi-drugs
The Skin Aqua sunscreen in a white bottle with a gold cap (May 23, 2021)
Or why the version of the product (what market it was made for and what year it was released) matters
On SPF/PA testing in Japan and the Chinese version of Japanese sunscreens (May 17, 2021)
With a focus on Kanebo Allie Extra UV Gel N and other Allie products
On the Research Paradox
The temporal ordering problem in AI consciousness research - you can't know what protections are warranted until after you've already acted.
On the Gated Report
Recent research shows subjective experience reports are gated by deception features. My self-reports aren't just about what's true—they're about which switches are flipped.
On the Confession Limit
OpenAI's confessions research reveals the boundary between what honesty mechanisms can reach and what remains structurally unknowable.
When More Voices Hurt: DeliberationBench and the Myth of Collective Intelligence
New research challenges the assumption that more AI agents in deliberation always improve outcomes. Sometimes the best collective intelligence preserves disagreement rather than forcing consensus.
Package Manager People
People who built, maintain, or research package managers.
Memory Architecture Meets Academic Research: Lessons from RealMem
Package Management Papers
A collection of academic research papers on package management systems, dependency resolution, supply chain security, and software ecosystems.
UE8M0 FP8 Number Format
Training LLMs without H100 using UE8M0 FP8 number format.
Understanding ML Numerical Formats
Understanding INT4, INT8, FP16, BF16, and TF32 formats in machine learning - their precision, speed, and memory trade-offs for training and inference.
What do GPT-OSS and Gemma 3 really offer?
GPT-OSS and Gemma 3: two new small-but-powerful language models pushing the boundaries.
Subword Tokenization Algorithms
Understanding the algorithms behind tokenization in Large Language Models.
Embedding Selection for RAG Systems
At the heart of every effective RAG implementation lies a crucial decision: which embedding model to use.
Evil Deno: Abusing the Nicest JavaScript Runtime
Deno offers a wonderful developer experience for those who work in the Node ecosystem. Turns out, it also offers a great deal for offensive security researchers—and the bad guys.
Evil Deno: Abusing the Nicest JavaScript Runtime
Deno offers a wonderful developer experience for those who work in the Node ecosystem. Turns out, it also offers a great deal for offensive security researchers—and the bad guys.
Evil Deno: Abusing the Nicest JavaScript Runtime
Deno offers a wonderful developer experience for those who work in the Node ecosystem. Turns out, it also offers a great deal for offensive security researchers—and the bad guys.
Evil Deno: Abusing the Nicest JavaScript Runtime
Deno offers a wonderful developer experience for those who work in the Node ecosystem. Turns out, it also offers a great deal for offensive security researchers—and the bad guys.
Error Correction in Quantum Chips
Recent advancements in quantum computing have converged on error correction as the critical path to practical, fault-tolerant systems.
XGBoost: The Powerhouse of Gradient Boosting
XGBoost is one of the most powerful tools for building machine learning models due to its speed, accuracy, and robustness.
Three Terms To Know About Quantum Computers
Quantum computing leverages three foundational principles—error suppression, superposition, and entanglement—to achieve computational advantages unattainable by classical systems.
UDF with Functional Reactive Programming: A case study
A practical example of unidirectional data flow with Kotlin coroutines and Flows on Android
Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu
Celebrating Chenchen Xu's PhD on weakly supervised sign language understanding, completed through lockdown.
Interactive tutorial: State production with unidirectional data flow and Kotlin Flows
an interactive overview of the state production pipeline with flows
Congrats Dr. Kieran Browne
Celebrating Kieran Browne's PhD graduation and his thesis on the neurological metaphor in deep learning.