The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
DeepSeek-R1's epic pull request (News)
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
Xuan-Son Nguyen opened a low-level code PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1, Adam Wathan announces the release of Tailwind CSS 4.0, Matheus Lima opens up the Computer Science history books to create list of influential papers, Namanyay Goel thinks AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers & Russell Baylis shares what he's learned about optimizing WFH lighting to reduce eye strain.
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What up, nerds? I'm Jared, and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, January 27th, 2024. On one hand, there's the Stargate Project, a joint venture by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and Friends. that's aimed at investing $500 billion over four years to build out infrastructure that will, quote, secure American leadership in AI.
On the other hand, there's DeepSeek R1, a Chinese AI lab's MIT-licensed reasoning model that gives OpenAI's O1 a run for its money and only cost $5.6 million to train. It's big money versus big brain. I'm jealous of both. Okay, let's get into this week's news. DeepSeek R1's epic pull request.
Speaking of big brain, Zan Sun Nguyen opened a pull request to Georgi Gaganov's Lama.cpp repo that doubles the speed of Wasm by optimizing SIMD instructions with the following PR comment. Quote, surprisingly, 99% of the code in this PR is written by DeepSeek R1. The only thing I do is to develop tests and write prompts with some trials and errors.
Indeed, this PR aims to prove that LLMs are now capable of writing good, low-level code to a point that it can optimize its own code. End quote. I can't judge whether this is good, low-level code or not because I don't know what good, low-level code looks like. But Gyorgy and Zan Sun sure are impressed. Zansun also shared the prompts they used to get the desired results.
This, of course, resulted in a long X-thread where both humans and robots debate and meme whether or not it's over for folks like us, or not quite yet. Tailwind CSS version 4 is official.
Here's Adam Wavin, quote, Tailwind CSS version 4 is an all-new version of the framework optimized for performance and flexibility with a reimagined configuration and customization experience and taking full advantage of the latest advancements the web platform has to offer, end quote. This looks like it was a massive undertaking.
It has a new high-performance build engine, simplified installation, automatic content detection, Reimagined, CSS First Config, and too much more to list here. The most influential papers in computer science history. Matthias Lima opens up the history books to create this admittedly subjective list of influential papers dating all the way back to 1936.
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