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Karan Pal

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Aug 17

Your CPU Has More Cores Than Your Job Can Use

Some work splits cleanly across hundreds of cores. Other work is a chain of steps where every new step has to wait for the last one to…

Your CPU Has More Cores Than Your Job Can Use

Karan Pal

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Aug 17

Your Password Isn’t as Random as You Think

Crack-time calculators measure the size of a theoretical password space — not how people actually choose passwords or how attackers search…

Your Password Isn’t as Random as You Think

Karan Pal

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Aug 17

Google Maps Doesn’t Store Your Route. It Stores Something Smarter.

Instead of calculating every journey in advance, routing systems restructure the map so that a search can ignore almost everything and…

Google Maps Doesn’t Store Your Route. It Stores Something Smarter.

Karan Pal

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Aug 17

An AI Can Score Higher Without Knowing More

Most benchmarks give a wrong guess the same score as “I don’t know,” so a model can climb the leaderboard without learning anything new.

An AI Can Score Higher Without Knowing More

Karan Pal

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Aug 13

What Happens to Your Internet When an Undersea Cable Is Cut?

Three cables were cut in the Red Sea in 2024 and the traffic graphs did not move. Here is why that happened, and the two places where it…

What Happens to Your Internet When an Undersea Cable Is Cut?

Karan Pal

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Aug 13

Your Computer Isn’t Slow. It’s Waiting for Memory.

More RAM gives your machine more room, but it doesn’t make the memory it already has arrive any faster.

Your Computer Isn’t Slow. It’s Waiting for Memory.

Karan Pal

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Aug 12

Why Is ChatGPT Losing Money If Everyone Pays?

Every software business ever built rested on one property: the second copy is free. AI is the first product sold at scale where that…

Why Is ChatGPT Losing Money If Everyone Pays?

Karan Pal

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Aug 11

Why Is AI So Expensive to Run?

Google’s index is more than a hundred thousand times bigger than a large AI model, and the small one is the expensive one. Here is where…

Why Is AI So Expensive to Run?

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Aug 10

Why Does AI Write One Word at a Time Even on a Fast GPU?

It is not the model thinking. To write a single word the machine reads every number in the file, and the pipe carrying those numbers is…

Why Does AI Write One Word at a Time Even on a Fast GPU?

Karan Pal

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Aug 9

Why Does AI Ignore an Instruction That Is Still Sitting In The Chat?

It is resent on every single turn and read straight past. Instruction-following falls from 88% to 71% by your third message. The mechanism…

Why Does AI Ignore an Instruction That Is Still Sitting In The Chat?

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