ar5iv offers a modern web view for arXiv's preprints. An open community resource, on a quest to a full collection of high-quality documents.

In October 2021, I ran a concierge search engine called Genius Search. That’s a fancy way of saying that I asked my friends to pay me $10/month to research an unlimited number of open-ended questions. I would write and send them a summary of each topic as…

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The OS I learned to program on meets the language I helped create.

A site about mathematician, magician, musician and author Raymond M. Smullyan (1919 – 2017).

Large study hints that taking metformin before conception could raise risk of birth defects

We've been making compromises to the limits of fossil fuels for so long that we've forgotten they're compromises.

Just one communications network using the technology could result in hundreds of metric tons of mercury released into the upper atmosphere.

This post has nothing to do with JIT-like techniques for patching machine code on the fly (though they are cool!).
Instead, it describes a cute/horrible trick/hack you can use to generate source code if you are not a huge fan of macros.
The final technique…

Slack is where work flows. It’s where the people you need, the information you share and the tools you use come together to get things done.

Spam feels more invasive and alarming when it’s from you.

When developing my Nintendo 64 game Voidblade, an important step was rendering the triangles. The basic building block of any modern 3D pipeline is a triangle, even to this day (according to Brian Karis’s latest SIGGRAPH talk, it will probably take “many…

The state pumps too much groundwater, especially during droughts. Now, it's learning to refill the overdrawn bucket. "It's the simplest math in the world," says one scientist.

The Debian project has been voting on a general
resolution that would allow secret voting on future issues. The results have
been posted in unofficial form, and the winner was "proposal B": "Hide identities of
Developers casting a particular vote and allow…