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In Kyrgyzstan it’s as common to kidnap your future wife as it is in America to meet her on a dating app

New systems like chatGPT are enormously entertaining, and even mind-boggling, but also unreliable, and potentially dangerous.

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

The keyboard works of The Well-Tempered Clavier sound more novel and luminous 300 years later than in their composer’s day.

A walkthrough of 46 lines of code that render a 3D ASCII donut using signed distance functions.

Deep work
Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to working in a continuously interrupting environment. Smartphone notifications, hundreds of e-mails, open spaces, and meetings slicing our workday. We are feeling busy, and overworked, but are we more productive?…

Listen now | The Bank of Japan sudden change of heart has important global implications

Software for Pre-CAD systems design

In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…

I've cleared out a storage unit and am going through old papers, etc. Happily, I found an extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self. The scan is here: https://levien.com/dijkstra-letter.pdf

This is in response to my somewhat juvenile ideas…

Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.

There is a high cost to being poor. What are some of the actual added costs when you can't pay for basic necessities outright?

U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co on Tuesday set a 2025 deadline to stop producing PFAS, the forever chemicals used in anything from cell phones to semiconductors that have been linked to cancers, heart problems and low birth weights.

I used the #StableDiffusion 2 Depth Guided model to create architecture photos from dollhouse furniture.

By using a depth-map you can create images with incredible spatial consistency without using any of the original RGB image.

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A chemical produced by the microbiome sends a signal from the gut to the brain, triggering a dopamine release into the brain’s motivation center.

I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...

In the latest initiative of an ongoing bid to clean up Amsterdam's seamy image and improve safety for residents, city officials recently announced policy proposals "to limit tourism growth and nuisance" and combat overcrowding.

In a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that attackers gained access to its GitHub repositories this month and stole the company's source code.