Tag: open-source
All the articles with the tag "open-source".
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Unsung Hero: The Professor Whose Free Lectures Trained a Generation of Database Engineers
Andy Pavlo runs CMU's database research group. His free YouTube lectures have trained more database engineers than most universities. His research influenced DuckDB, CockroachDB, and every modern analytical database.
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Unsung Hero: The Professor Who Open-Sourced Legged Robots for Everyone
Boston Dynamics gets the viral videos. Professor Sangbae Kim at MIT built affordable legged robots and gave the designs away for free. The entire quadruped robot industry traces back to his lab.
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One Year After DeepSeek R1: What Actually Changed?
A year ago, a Chinese lab nobody was watching released a model that crashed NVIDIA's stock and challenged every assumption about how much compute you actually need. I was watching them before the explosion. Here is what I think really happened.