Category
AI

The AI category covers machine learning engineering and practical applications of artificial intelligence. It focuses on understanding how models work and deploying them in real-world contexts:

  • Model Architecture: How neural networks are designed, trained, and optimized.
    • Topics: Transformers, quantization, inference frameworks, scaling laws.
  • Edge AI: Running models on consumer hardware, browsers, and mobile devices.
    • Topics: bitnet.cpp, WebGPU inference, on-device fine-tuning, memory optimization.
AI

May 2026

The Phase Shift Attack: How Fourier Math Strips an AI Watermark
May 9, 2026

The Phase Shift Attack: How Fourier Math Strips an AI Watermark

How a Fourier transform exposes an AI watermark's frequencies, and how a phase shift drops SynthID detection by 91% at 43 dB PSNR.

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Talkie-1930: An LLM That Has Never Heard of Computers Just Learned to Code
May 2, 2026

Talkie-1930: An LLM That Has Never Heard of Computers Just Learned to Code

Talkie-1930 is a 13B language model trained only on text published before 1931. It has never seen a computer. Given a few Python examples, it writes code anyway. Here is what that means for the reasoning vs memorization debate.

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April 2026

Run a 1-Bit LLM on Your Mac with bitnet.cpp
April 13, 2026

Run a 1-Bit LLM on Your Mac with bitnet.cpp

A first-person walkthrough of running BitNet b1.58 on an M1 Pro: real benchmarks (22.5 tok/s), five real gotchas, a 3B model in under 1 GB of RAM, and the GPU never touched.

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How SynthID Was Broken: Three Attacks That Defeated Google's AI Watermark
April 12, 2026

How SynthID Was Broken: Three Attacks That Defeated Google's AI Watermark

Researchers broke Google's SynthID watermark 3 ways. Spectral analysis drops detection by 91.4%, diffusion re-nosing overwrites it, and synonym swaps defeat text marking.

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BitNet b1.58: The 1-Bit LLM That Matches Full-Precision Models
April 9, 2026

BitNet b1.58: The 1-Bit LLM That Matches Full-Precision Models

BitNet b1.58 replaces every Transformer weight with -1, 0, or 1, cutting energy use by 71.4x while matching FP16 quality at 3B+ parameters. Here is how.

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