An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar - Volume 33 Issue 3

New World capuchin monkeys are well-known by their ability to solve problems using stone tools that have the characteristics and morphology of some human-made stone tools. The aim of the present contribution is to carry out brief comparisons between the Pleistocene…

A countdown to the end of 32-bit unix time

When Philip Poniz opened Box 105 at his local Wells Fargo, he discovered it was empty — and that he was totally unprotected by federal law.

Remember the paper that made the rounds on Twitter after readers discovered that the error bars in one of its figures were really just capital Ts?  Well, it’s now been retracted, with the noti…

As a seasoned software engineer, I've discovered that there's so much more to the field than what's taught in school. From the importance of understanding business needs and the value of soft skills, to the necessity of continuous learning and the reality…

Lately a lot of my interaction with music—listening, sharing, discovering, and making it—has been mediated through cassettes. So maybe I ...

In ancient Athens, the richest people paid taxes to support what the residents considered the salvation of the city. These taxes earned them social and political clout more valuable than money.

In this blog post, we'll examine the virtualization obfuscation used by Nike

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

The Jan. 6, 2023 episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Thelonious Monk had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop.

Lisp in Life is a Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.

Gabor Maté CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma, and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including…

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models for AI art generation from first principles in Julia. This is part 1 of a 3 part series on these models.

Ever since the famous “Open Sesame” line from One Thousand and One Nights, humanity was doomed to suffer from the scourge of passwords. Courtesy of SwiftOnSecurity Even in a world where…

Finding someone still singing CGIs praises is surprising, and some alliteration.

Espressif is expanding its current portfolio to address the high-performance computation needs of IO-Rich, HMI, and AIoT applications.