The Attention Matrix You Never Write Down
Attention was never compute-bound; FlashAttention makes it exact and fast by never writing the N-by-N score matrix to GPU memory, holding the whole computation in on-chip SRAM through tiling and an online-softmax recurrence.
The Firing Power: Should the President Be Able to Remove Independent Regulators at Will?
In overruling a ninety-year-old precedent to let the President fire Federal Trade Commission members at will, the Supreme Court reopened a question serious constitutional thinkers still split on: whether democratic accountability or expert insulation better serves the public.
Two Hundred and Fifty Acres, Seated
At the New York Botanical Garden the narrated tram turns a 250-acre July walk into a shaded, seated loop past the largest old-growth forest left in New York City, the rare big-garden day that asks almost nothing of a newborn.
A shut strait, a wary Fed, and quantum weirdness you can hold
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz after a third round of US strikes, the Fed's first report under Warsh calls inflation 'stepped up,' and labs deliver a crack-proof battery clue, tabletop entanglement, and DNA written on a chip.
The Tools Got Concrete, the Guarantees Got Softer
A training-free decoder, a benchmark that grades agents step by step, and a release an agent debugged itself, set against a safety index that tops out at C+ and a lab reinforcing the trust that can seat its board.