LastPass has claimed that it would take millions of years to crack a user's master password, but a rival company claims that the process won't take nearly that long, and could be done for a mere $100.

This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990-2019, we document the historical association between teen suicides and the school…

Listen musics from all around the world, then guess the language. Challenge yourself!

Over at MacRumors, Hartley Charlton pointed out something that hadn't crossed my mind: Historically, Apple released at least one new Mac model every year in the fourth quarter that runs between October and December, starting in 2001 with the launch of the…

Let's start with an example. In Advent of Code 2022 day 1 we get groups of numbers as input like:
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Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan.

What changed? Norway went on a 10-year marketing campaign to sell Atlantic salmon in the East Asian country. And the plan worked.

Here’s a story 🧵

I must admit that some previous years for C++ might feel a bit “boring” and “stable”. New features, new standard every three years, meetings, conferences… life as usual (apart from some additional World/Economy/public Health events…). This year seems different…

Flipper Zero: The Thread. I received a Flipper Zero a few days ago, and since I'm idling here at my parent's house, for the holidays, I spent a lot of time playing with it. This thread captures my impressions about the device.

The new book “Emergent Tokyo” looks at how the city was shaped not by disorder or grand design, but by the intermingling of small choices that create spontaneous patterns from the bottom up.

🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading - bigscience-workshop/petals

This year we are welcoming works from 1927 into the public domain in the United States, including books, periodicals, sheet music, and movies.  Big events of 1927 include the first transatlantic phone call from New York to London, the formation of The Academy…

Hello and happy new year! It’s 2023, and Windows 11 is finally a mature operating system that most people would be happy to use. Sun Valley has finally arrived, and it’s all about a lon…

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

Lessons Learned from the Book Effective Remote Work by James Stanier

2022 has seen many languages created to rival C++. Lucian Radu Teodorescu reports on the current state of the art.

A note in Ajami, a modified Arabic noscript, from Fallou Ngom's late father opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.

OG Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr says he has no idea how his PGP key was compromised but shared a wallet address that appears to hold 216 of his stolen Bitcoin.

A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate.