Andrés Morales, author at El Solitario

Diagram of a trie showing nodes branching letter by letter

Programming

Trie: The Data Structure Behind Autocomplete

A trie is a tree that indexes words letter by letter instead of using a full hash. Here’s how the structure behind instant autocomplete, spell checking, and IP routing works internally, with code examples in JavaScript and Python.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months17 August, 2026 ago

Diagram of an AI model with less factual knowledge and more reasoning

Artificial Intelligence

Qwen3.5 Reasons Almost as Well as GLM-5.2 but Hallucinates 82% of Facts

AI labs are deliberately trimming factual knowledge from their models to gain pure reasoning power. GLM-5.2, Qwen3.5, and DeepSeek V4-Flash show the pattern with concrete numbers, and the trend points toward running a frontier model on a single consumer GPU.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 August, 2026 ago

NSF budget cut: National Science Foundation headquarters and its new AI-focused budget

Tech News

NSF Cuts Budget by 56% and Prioritizes AI Over Basic Science

The NSF budget cut brought the agency’s funding down to nearly half for fiscal year 2026. The freed-up money is being redirected to a federal plan for artificial intelligence applied to science, while thousands of basic research grants are left without funding.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 August, 2026 ago

Diagram of content blockers filtering ads in Firefox for iOS

Tech News

Firefox for iOS Blocks Ads with Apple’s Content Blocker API

On iOS, no browser can bring its own ad-blocking engine: Apple requires everyone to use WebKit and its content blocker system. We look at how that API works in Firefox, its technical limits, and how to enable it right now.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months16 August, 2026 ago

Computer science and philosophy students debating AI ethics in a classroom

Artificial Intelligence

William & Mary Creates a Minor Combining Philosophy and AI Ethics

William & Mary launched a formal minor combining computer science with applied philosophy, requiring students from both departments to take courses together. The program joins existing initiatives like Stanford’s Embedded EthiCS and MIT’s SERC, at a time of growing demand for professionals who can audit algorithmic bias.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months15 August, 2026 ago

Diagram of the US restricted party list used by Apple

Tech News

Apple Blocks a Real Developer Over a Fictitious 2009 Alias

Apple blocked an Irish developer over a name invented in 2009, while Nasdaq and DHL resolved the same restricted-list error within hours. The case exposes how automated name matching can trip up anyone with a common name.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months15 August, 2026 ago

Programming

RustDesk Enables Unattended Remote Access on Wayland

RustDesk releases a preview build with unattended remote access for Wayland sessions on Linux, supporting multiple monitors without needing to manually approve each connection. The feature is arriving first on Debian and Ubuntu, before expanding to other distributions.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months15 August, 2026 ago

Tech News

Qwen3.8-27B-FP8: Alibaba Releases the Model with Native FP8 and Reasoning Effort

Alibaba published Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 on Hugging Face, a 27-billion-parameter model with native FP8 quantization and reasoning effort control. We cover its chat template, how to use it with transformers, and its hardware limits.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months14 August, 2026 ago

Solar flare captured by a space observatory, signal detected by AI

Tech News

AI Detects Hidden Signs of Solar Flares Hours Before They Happen

A new artificial intelligence model identifies hidden signals in solar data that anticipate a flare with hours of lead time. The news, reported by Phys.org, adds to the wave of AI tools applied to space science. An early warning like this could change how satellites, airlines, and power grid operators prepare for space weather.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months14 August, 2026 ago

Python code showing a generator with the yield keyword, illustrating Python generators

Programming

Yield in Python: How Generators Work Under the Hood

Generators in Python let you iterate over large sequences without loading them fully into memory. This article explains how yield works, when to use it, and how it differs from a list or a regular function.

By Andrés Morales, 2 months14 August, 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.