Open Source

Watercolor illustration of a Victorian island colony at sea, with glass houses, horses, a nanobot swarm dome, and branching foundations below.

Sci-Fi Saturday

The Seed and the Feed

Neal Stephenson imagined abundance with a root. The modern fight over open weights asks who gets to stand between the model and the person trying to use it.

The Quantization Underground: How a 4-Line Hack Taught AI Models to Forget Selectively

How a GitHub issue about variable bit rates spawned an underground compression movement that lets 7-billion-parameter models run on a phone.