arXiv preprint suggests December 23, 178 BCE; others think it was summer 204 BCE.

Teletypes may have killed a lot of forests by emitting every line to hard copy instead of a screen, but there's something to be said for t...

@GergelyOrosz We just got this from Atlassian😳😬: "We were unable to confirm a more firm ETA until now due to the complexity of the rebuild process for your site. While we are beginning to bring some customers back online, we estimate the rebuilding effort…

In an email exchange with retired DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) analyst, William (Chip) Sayers, he sent me this account. I asked him if we could publish it, as I think it is a wonderfully unfil…

Welcome to Fennel AI’s blog! We publish high quality technical content on building realtime recommendation systems. Subscribe for free to get all posts delivered straight to your inbox. Training a collaborative filtering based recommendation system on a toy…

Exploring why Rust is our preferred language for a core WebRTC library

In the 1970s & 80s, anthropologists working in small-scale, non-industrial societies fastidiously noted down what people were doing throughout the day. I’ve been exploring the data & am struck by one of the most popular activities: doing nothing. [thread]

A criticism of some of my writing is that it’s too mercenary. Some see my advice as coldly calculating, too focused on individual outcomes over collective ones, and implicitly distrustful of others. I think this is fair criticism! It’s not exactly what I’m…

How to create minimal wasm module with plain C/C++ - ern0/howto-wasm-minimal

Why does lining up two scales of a slide rule let you multiply numbers?

The drug found in magic mushrooms could treat depression in a unique way, researchers say.

Excerpt from Bioastronautics Research http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwRdcv8azvk

#AIRBOYD #AvGeek

Elementary is a library for building high performance, portable audio applications with functional, declarative JavaScript.

Intuit is now asking all MC employees pay medical costs out of pocket until their health insurance retroactively becomes available. As COVID rages on, as kids return to school. You have to pay medical costs and hope it gets reimbursed quickly.

Classified data prevented scientists from verifying their discovery for 3 years.

Update: 2022-04-15
I typically average around 100 unique visitors to this site per day. Below is a screenshot from my Plausible analytics setup showing the traffic spike up to almost 14k unique visitors from HackerNews (and other sources).


Update: 2022…