Month: May 2025

In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, and a local-first experience. GitHub link Why I Built My Own Audio Player Like many people, I’ve picked up … Read more

I recently acquired Netatmo smart radiator valves to manage my rooms’ temperature remotely. I’m not skilled at manual tasks, but I could easily replace the old thermo-static valves. I then registered the smart ones in the Netatmo app. Finally, I integrated them in my Home Assistant via the dedicated Netatmo integration. Everything was very straightforward. … Read more

As AI models become more powerful, they also become harder to understand. While accuracy skyrockets, explainability often falls by the wayside. This post explores how explainable AI (XAI) is evolving to keep up with next-gen systems like large language models (LLMs) and generative tools — and why human-centered reasoning might be the next frontier. Can … Read more

Smarter AI is great — but AI you can actually trust? That’s the real game-changer. AI is now making decisions that affect everything from your bank loan to your job application. But there’s one big catch — most of the time, it doesn’t tell us why it made those decisions. That’s where Explainable AI (XAI) … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Theoretical Lenses 3.1. Handoff Model 3.2. Boundary objects 4. Applying the Theoretical Lenses and 4.1 Handoff Triggers: New tech, new threats, new hype 4.2. Handoff Components: Shifting experts, techniques, and data 4.3. Handoff Modes: Abstraction and constrained expertise 4.4 Handoff Function: Interrogating the how … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Blockchain 2.2 Transactions 3 Motivating Example 4 Computing Transaction Processing Times 5 Data Collection and 5.1 Data Sources 5.2 Approach 6 Results 6.1 RQ1: How long does it take to process a transaction in Ethereum? 6.2 RQ2: How accurate are the estimates for transaction … Read more

We design and benchmark a cross‑platform echo & chat server that scales from laptops to low‑latency Linux boxes. Starting with a Boost.Asio baseline, we add UDP and finally an io_uring implementation that closes the gap with DPDK‑style kernel‑bypass—all while preserving a single, readable codebase. Full code is available here: https://github.com/hariharanragothaman/nimbus-echo Motivation Real‑time collaboration tools, multiplayer … Read more

Every founder dreams of that big seed round, the Series A, the venture capital influx that propels their startup into the stratosphere. The headlines scream about massive valuations and unicorn status, making VC funding feel like the ultimate validation. But what those headlines often gloss over is the quiet cost of that capital: dilution. Every … Read more

If you have ever spoken about something out loud and then seen an ad for it a few hours later, you have probably had that familiar gut reaction: “Is my phone listening to me?” In reality, it is not just your phone’s microphone. It is everything – your searches, clicks, scroll speed, app activity, shopping … Read more

Listing your token is just step one. This piece compares how major exchanges like OKX, Gate.io, MEXC, Bybit, and WhiteBIT support projects after launch.

This is my sequel to the famous Transformers paper titled “Attention is all you need”. The technology described in that paper has led to almost every major breakthrough in AI in the past seven years, everything from ChatGPT to Google’s video generation model, Veo and everything in between.  The original paper was focused on helping … Read more