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Fifty Millilitres of Everything
9+ hour, 50+ min ago (1104+ words) Vocal Fifty Millilitres of Everything How a syringe of seawater is quietly changing what it means to know what's living on the oceans seafloor I'm on deck, coveralls on, waiting for a sample of seawater to be lifted onto deck,…...
Video Essays Aren't Essays Anymore
8+ hour, 26+ min ago (247+ words) Everyone has come across a video essay before. There're everyone on YouTube - it says it right in the title! But even though a video may call itself an essay, doesn't that really mean it is one? The main different in…...
DeepSeek Is About to Face the One Question Its Models Can’t Answer
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (1098+ words) On September 9, market rumors said DeepSeek had entrusted CITIC Securities with preparing for a STAR Market IPO. 21st Century Business Herald learned from people familiar with the matter that the news is true. CITIC Securities has contacted DeepSeek and entered due…...
The Hodge Conjecture Rumor: OpenAI, a Viral Tweet, and the Math World’s Quiet Fury
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (794+ words) If true, this would mean three Millennium Prize Problems had been conquered within a single month. Chinese internet discussion quickly followed, and a related question on Zhihu received more than 40,000 views. The Clay Mathematics Institute issued no statement. OpenAI issued…...
Using AI Where It Actually Creates Business Value
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (299+ words) Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from an experimental technology to a standard business tool. For owners, the main challenge is no longer identifying where to use AI, but determining whether a specific application will deliver real business value or simply…...
They Solved a 90-Year-Old Math Problem in 88 Hours. Then the Accusations Started.
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (867+ words) On September 8, OpenAI’s server cluster finished what may have been the most expensive weekend sprint in the history of mathematics. 10,000 AI agents. 88 hours. Roughly $15 million in compute. The smoothness proof for the Navier–Stokes equations was broken into steps verifiable…...
I Used Four AI Models to Write a 10,000-Word Article in One Night. Here’s What It Cost Me.
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (468+ words) At 11:07 p.m. last Tuesday, I pasted a 10,000-word brief into my writing tool and hit go. Half an hour later, a red bar appeared: quota almost gone. I scrolled the draft. Correct. Boring. I deleted a sentence. Typed it again. Deleted…...
Stanislav Kondrashov on How Innovation Can Impose New Expectations Through Simpler Technology
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1100+ words) There is a curious pattern in technological history. The experience of using it often becomes simpler. Behind one button may sit thousands of operations. Behind a clean interface may be an elaborate technical architecture. A compact device may perform tasks…...
I Built a 256GB “E-Waste” AI Rig to Escape Token Fees. Here’s What Nobody Tells You.
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (531+ words) Many people say local deployment means token freedom. I ran mine for over half a year. Token freedom has three layers: physical, economic, and intelligence. The first two are free. The third is not. I have deployed DSV4F, DSV4F Exp, and Qwen3.8 27B locally....
The 0.02 Yuan Price Cut Is Not the Interesting Part
3+ day, 26+ min ago (638+ words) At 12:00 Beijing time on September 10, DeepSeek changed its Flash pricing. I opened the page and copied the numbers into a spreadsheet. Idle hours: cache-hit input 0.02 yuan per million tokens, cache-miss input 1 yuan, output 4 yuan. Peak hours double those. Cache-hit input…...