This post belongs in the ‘highly speculative’ category. It contains ideas that I’ve yet to flesh out and properly pin down. Reader beware!

Colaboratory notebook

Earth is on average ten times closer to Mercury than Jupiter, but missions to both planets can take a similar amount of time to reach their science orbits. Why is that?

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The Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve — it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium…

I wrote a book — The newline Guide to Bash Scripting! I’ll let the intro speak for itself:

A 2,500 year old ancient olive tree on the island of Evia was destroyed today in the ongoing wildfires consuming the region.

I was preparing to knock off work on a recent Friday evening when a curious and annoying email came in via the contact form on this site: “Hello I go by the username Nuclear27 on your site Briansclub[.]com,” wrote “Mitch,”…

What’s new in v2, and the least painful farewell in the history of JS.

Just 25 big cities – almost all of them in China – accounted for more than half of the climate-warming gases pumped out by a sample of 167 urban hubs around the world, an analysis of emissions trends showed on Monday.

A thorough introduction and tutorial to bpftrace: a high-level eBPF tracer

They describe themselves as “apolitical” hackers who want to end Belarus’ “terrorist” regime and ensure equal rights for all. But the actions of Cyberpartisans, a group of Belarusian hackers who claim to have secured access to the passport data of millions…

An argument that it is time to re-think our approach to natural language understanding, since the ‘big data’ approach to NLU is implausible and both technically and theoretically flawed..

Recover old Snaps that have “disappeared” from Snapchat - sdushantha/snaprecovery

"To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

Dawid Ciężarkiewicz aka `dpc`

A very low memory-footprint, self hosted API-only torrent search engine. Sonarr + Radarr Compatible, native support for Linux, Mac and Windows. - sergiotapia/torrentinim

Black-box transactional safety checker based on cycle detection - jepsen-io/elle