Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI
Today, we’re releasing Devstral 2—our next-generation coding model family available in two sizes: Devstral 2 (123B) and Devstral Small 2 (24B). Devstral 2 ships under a modified MIT license, while Devstral Small 2 uses Apache 2.0. Both are open-source and permissively licensed to accelerate distributed intelligence. Devstral 2 is currently free to use via our […]
Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them
Tests grow to thousands All make their claim on fixtures Frozen by demands An ancient Japanese Haiku about a common problem with software test fixtures Act 1: The problem, frozen fixtures Fixtures have a lot going for them: super fast, clearly structured, reusable across tests … That last one is also the source of a […]
SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens
SSE sucks I’m just going to cut to the chase here. SSE as a transport mechanism for LLM tokens is naff. It’s not that it can’t work, obviously it can, because people are using it and SDKs are built around it. But it’s not a great fit for the problem space. The basic SSE flow […]
ZX Spectrum Next on the Internet: Xberry Pi ESP01 and Pi Zero Upgrades
Getting my ZX Spectrum Next onto Wifi and the Internet, plus Pi Zero Accelerator I’m enjoying my Xberry Pi ZX Spectrum Next, but I have to say the ‘simple’ upgrade of getting it onto Wifi via the cheap and cheerful ESP 8266 was not fun. While I had every intention of setting up my Speccy […]
How Google Maps allocates survival across London’s restaurants
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power. I needed a restaurant recommendation, so I did what every normal person would do: I scraped every single restaurant in Greater London and built a machine-learning […]
The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
The Renaissance Period We are living through a Saturn renaissance. Buckets of titles previously locked away in Japan are seeing new audiences, thanks to the herculean efforts of small but dedicated teams of enthusiast translators, removing the veil of Japanese illiteracy from before our tired eyes. Interestingly, the majority of efforts are being directed at […]
A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)
As of midday today (GMT), New Year’s Eve, Longplayer has been playing continuously, without repetition, for 25 years. Playing since the cusp of the new millennium, at midnight on 31 December 1999, the composition will continue without repetition (if circumstances permit it to) until the last moments of 2999, when it will return to the […]
The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets
The nature of time is one of the most profound and longstanding problems in physics – one that no one can agree on. From our perspective, time seems to steadily progress forward with each tick of the clock. But the closer we look, the more bizarre time becomes – from equations that state time should […]
Modern Cassette Walkmans
Affordable modern portable cassette tape player & recorder with 2 track, stereo playback. Good sound quality, plays all (I-IV) cassettes. Frequency response : 40Hz-11KHz (Type I), Signal-to-noise ratio 50dB, Distorsion 1%, Wow & Flutter 0.3%, Headphone output power: 2×2 mW into 32 ohms
The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf]
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