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Monday, July 27, 202658 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

Attention alone outran recurrence, at a cost its own table had already recorded

The 2017 paper that proved recurrence and convolution were unnecessary for translation also logged the O(n²) cost that the state-space models of 2021 to 2024 built their case against.

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Technical Practice · Expert Tools

Pydantic Monty pauses a running snippet mid-call and resumes it in a different process

Version 0.0.19 starts in microseconds and blocks the filesystem and network by default, but it still can't run a match statement or import itertools.

11 min read8 sources
Investing · Investing Course

A business can turn a profit and still run low on cash

Accrual accounting counts a sale as revenue before the cash arrives and spreads a big purchase's cost across the years it is used, so profit and cash rarely land in the same period.

10 min read10 sources
Investing · Company Analysis

Alphabet's free cash flow turns negative for the first time

Capital spending of $44.9 billion outpaced the $39.1 billion Alphabet's business generated in cash in the quarter that ended June 30, 2026, even as a $98.0 billion pre-tax investment gain pushed net income to a record $112 billion.

9 min read10 sources
Daily Reading · Tech News

Moonshot's Kimi K3 cuts the lag to frontier models to three to five months

Independent testing puts Kimi K3 in the same benchmark tier as Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol Max, and finds a hallucination rate near 51 percent that Moonshot's own charts leave out.

6 min read11 sources
Daily Reading · Current Events

Rogoff sues Trump over the 54-minute firing

The fired federal prosecutor argues the administration had no power to remove him before the Senate confirmed a successor.

3 min read8 sources
Daily Reading · Word of the Day

An unanswered infatuation can occupy a mind for years

The feeling runs on not knowing rather than on affection itself, which is why Dorothy Tennov gave it a separate name in 1979, one Merriam-Webster now defines two different ways.

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