Posts
About DeepSeek Sparse Attention
DeepSeek Sparse Attention, some considerations about it after reading the paper.
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is defined as an experimental sparse-attention model. Its architecture is the same as …
Qwen3-Max and other Qwen releases
Qwen3-Max has been released from Qwen team. It’s their largest and most advanced large language model to date. It competes against GPT-5 and Grok 4.
The base model has over 1 trillion parameters …
Go has added Valgrind support
Go has added Valgrind support. While reading the commit, I saw this:
Instead of adding the Valgrind headers to the tree, and using cgo to call the various Valgrind client request macros, we just add …
GPT-5-Codex and Codex improvements
New model in town! GPT-5-Codex is a version of GPT-5 specifically realized for agentic coding in Codex. Here’s what you need to know:
- It dynamically adapts its thinking based on the complexity …
Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
One year ago, the Safe C++ proposal was made. The goal was to add a safe subset/context into C++ that would give strong guarantees (memory safety, type safety, thread safety) similar to what Rust …
Qwen 3 Next
Qwen team released two new models: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Both are already present on HuggingFace. Qwen also published a post on their blog.
Compared to the MoE …
iPhone Air
Apple presented the iPhone Air, the thinnest iPhone ever. This is the only new release from Apple that got my interest during their presentation event.
Its design is interesting: the entire logic …
npm debug and chalk packages compromised
Yesterday, a lot of npm packages have been compromised with malicious code. Following, a list of affected packages:
- ansi-styles@6.2.2
- debug@4.4.2 (appears to have been yanked as of 8 Sep 18:09 CEST) …
Fil-C, a memory safe implementation of C and C++
Yesterday, Fil-C popped up to the top of Hacker News. This time the submission got a fair amount of traction, sparking a lot of interest in the community, including a comment from Andrew Kelley. In …
The more you fuck around, the more you find out
There is a very interesting law that I think is worth sharing:
I am Sicilian and I support Strait of Messina Bridge
I’m Sicilian, and I support building the Strait of Messina Bridge.
Premise: I don’t vote for Matteo Salvini, the current Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and promoter of the project. Even …
Helm: what I like and dislike
I have been working with Helm for some time now and I’ve developed a love-hate relationship with it. It seems to have become the de-facto package manager for K8s, and there are good reasons for …
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) explained
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are a class of neural networks designed to process sequential data, such as time series, text, audio, or any other type of sequential data. RNNs were developed to …
Applying Deep Learning to detect Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment
Retinal detachment is an eye disease and is one of the most serious ocular emergencies. It occurs after a layer of the retina - essential tissue for vision - is lifted from the pigmented epithelial …
A generic introduction to Clinical Decision Support Systems
A Clinical Decision Support System is defined as an “active knowledge system, which uses two or more patient data elements to generate case-specific advice” (DSS, 2001). This implies that …