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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the

Reading Time: 2 minutesImagine you have a projector pointing at a scene, which you’re photographing with a camera aimed from a different point. Using the techniques of modelling

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf the term ‘NLWeb’ first brought to mind an image of a Dutch internet service provider, you’re probably not alone. What it actually is –

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Persil Smartwash fully disassembled. (Credit: Zerobrain, YouTube) Interestingly, the heart of the main PCB is an ESP32-D0WD-V3, flanked by an ESP-PSRAMH 64 Mbit pseudo-static

Reading Time: 11 minutesJay Alammar, director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere, joins Ben Lorica to talk about building AI applications for the enterprise, using RAG effectively, and the

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next best

Reading Time: 2 minutesLet’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good power supply design, start whipping

Reading Time: 4 minutesMany of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward—get the water boiling, drop

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a well-known factoid that batteries keep getting cheaper while capacity increases. That said, as with any market that is full of people who are

Reading Time: 11 minutesJay Alammar, director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere, joins Ben Lorica to talk about building AI applications for the enterprise, using RAG effectively, and the

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn my recent Live with Tim O’Reilly interview, I spoke with Marily Nika, author of Building AI-Powered Products and one of the most thoughtful voices

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and