Three Chinese professors have taken a famous graph theory technique from Paul Erdős and enhanced it, according to Quanta: Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his technique even more powerful.

I found myself relating to kat’s post about “learning to code like it’s the ’90s” the more I read it: i know i’m undercutting my efforts to some degree, but it does feel like a reality that most of the code i’ve written comes with an asterisk of “i am not confident/good enough at understanding programming enough to have written this from scratch, without copying entire snippets from stack overflow.”

The search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves, later renamed Ask.com, shut down on 1st May. Truly an end of an era. Thanks for the memories.

llmfit gives you a list of hundreds of LLMs and providers and lists different criteria to find what will run on your devices (h/t jacky)