(Update 2023-03: I wrote this in 2020 when GPT-3 was highly hyped, but ultimately made only <1% of the splash that the monstrous ChatGPT made 3 years later. If I had to rewrite this today, I’d 1) think more kindly about defensibility, especially through deep…

The drawing app to express, grasp, and organize your thoughts and ideas

Researchers have provided more evidence that eating earlier in the day might be good for you—and eating all of your meals within a 10-hour window could be healthier, too.

In 2007, John Galvan was about 21 years into a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit when he saw something on the prison television he thought might finally help him prove his innocence and secure his freedom: A re-run of an episode of the Discovery…

Russia has blamed a truck bomb - but examination of the footage seems to contradict that.

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Simon Weckert, a Berlin-based artist, tricked the renowned app into thinking that a completely empty street is bursting with traffic.

A discussion of some of the downsides of Zig

Change the way of firmware development, collaborate with others and share knowledge.

The airplane that many called “the flying barrel” is also widely considered the ugliest plane ever built. However, [Dark Skies] in the video you can see below argues that the Stipa-Capr…

Fractal Garden - An Exhibition Of Mathematical Beauty: A page to collect fractal renderings, and teach people about the awesome connections between different fractals and how they are drawn. Also, they look pretty.

The decades-old Sullivan’s conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster, was thought to be out of reach for three bubbles and up — until a new breakthrough result.

why 23.976 and not 24 fps? And when should I set the camera and the monitoring out option for the BNC for one or the other?

Joint work with Saul Schleimer. In this short video we show how various models of hyperbolic geometry can be obtained from the hemisphere model via stereographic and orthogonal projection.

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US factories are humming, and manufacturers are scrambling to find workers as the pace of hiring hits levels not seen in decades.

Crash Detection is mistaking rollercoasters for car accidents.

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This photo collection of vintage ads gives a glimpse into how the computer industry developed in the early 1980s.