Andrés Morales, author at El Solitario

Open Book Touch, open source e-reader with e-paper display and front light

Open Book Touch: Open Source E-Reader Raises $46,393 on Crowd Supply

Open Book Touch surpassed its funding goal on Crowd Supply with $46,393 raised. The open source e-reader by Oddly Specific Objects reads EPUB, runs without Linux, and draws less than 1 milliamp.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month17 July, 2026 ago

Scientific AI chips in China: Huawei Ascend cluster manufactured by SMIC

China Accelerates Its Scientific AI with Homegrown Chips Despite the US Ban

While Washington restricts the export of advanced GPUs, Chinese labs are accelerating the use of AI in scientific research with homegrown hardware like the Huawei Ascend. The strategy combines domestic chips, efficient models like DeepSeek, and a state policy pushing AI applied to science.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month17 July, 2026 ago

EEG electrodes on the scalp recording brain activity during auditory attention

Noticias Tech

EEG Confirms the Brain Processes Two Voices at Once When Switching Attention

An EEG study published in PLOS Biology shows that the human brain briefly encodes two competing voices when the focus of auditory attention shifts. The transition is accompanied by a drop in alpha power and suggests the brain resets its lexical context after the switch.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month17 July, 2026 ago

Decoy Font letters showing a real message and a decoy message overlaid

Noticias Tech

Decoy Font: the TTF Font That Hides Text with Hybrid Images

Mixfont released Decoy Font, a free TTF typeface that hides a fake message for artificial intelligence inside every letter that remains visible to humans. The technique, based on hybrid images, fooled ChatGPT and Gemini 3.5 with Thinking in its own creators’ tests.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month17 July, 2026 ago

Diagram of singular value decomposition SVD and PCA in data mathematics

Inteligencia Artificial

SVD and PCA: The Math That Compresses Thousands of Dimensions Into a Few

SVD and PCA are the mathematical foundation that makes it possible to compress high-dimensional data without losing relevant information. A new academic book on arXiv organizes all this theory, and here we explain it with Python code from scratch.

By Andrés Morales, 1 month16 July, 2026 ago

Comic Chat client interface showing comic characters in an IRC chat

Programación

Microsoft Open-Sources Comic Chat, the Origin of Comic Sans

Microsoft released the source code of Comic Chat, the 1996 IRC client that drew every conversation as a comic strip. The GitHub release lets you study how the software automatically generated expressions, gestures, and panels from typed text, and how that interface helped popularize the Comic Sans typeface.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 July, 2026 ago

Kimi K3 interface showing the Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and Kimi Claw products

Noticias Tech

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3 and Splits It into Work, Code, and Claw

Moonshot AI redesigned kimi.com around Kimi K3, splitting the assistant into three products: Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and Kimi Claw. There is still no public technical spec sheet for the model.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 July, 2026 ago

Diagram of the data tools lifecycle: ETL, warehouse, and BI

Programación

ETL, warehouse, and BI: the data tooling map for developers

A developer who lands on a data team hears ETL, warehouse, lakehouse, and reverse ETL in the first meeting and understands none of it. This article maps the full data lifecycle, from source to dashboard, with code examples in SQL, Python, and dbt so any engineer can grasp what each tool does and when to use it.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 July, 2026 ago

Diagram of a job queue with producer, broker, and workers

Programación

Job queues: how retries, idempotency, and DLQs work

Job queues decouple the producer from the consumer, but they hide hard problems: duplicate retries, non-idempotent jobs, and messages that never resolve. This article walks through each piece with code examples in BullMQ, SQS, and RabbitMQ.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 July, 2026 ago

Google Cloud data center representing scientific AI models

Inteligencia Artificial

Google Cloud Launches Specialized AI Models for Science

Google Cloud added a catalog of scientific AI models specialized in biology, materials, and climate to Vertex AI, according to Bloomberg. The announcement comes as China accelerates its own AI-assisted science despite limited access to advanced chips.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 July, 2026 ago

Andrés Morales

Developer and AI researcher. Writes about language models, frameworks, developer tooling, and open source releases. Covers ML papers, the tech startup ecosystem, and programming trends.