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Tech Notes on Cubic Bezier Curves, Perlin Noise, and Minimal Rotation Frames

A thing I have been working on, on and off, for many years now, is a set of headers and helper routines for programming DOS machines directly on the hardware in assembly and C. As you may recall, m…

GROUNDHOG-DAY.com is the leading Groundhog Day data source: cataloging North America’s prognosticating animals and their yearly weather predictions.

LOS ANGELES, CA, December 20, 2022 — Deep Voodoo, the artificial intelligence entertainment startup formed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, announced today that it has secured a $20 million investment led by Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between…

A group of four men has controlled 86% of Tether Holdings, a company that operates a stablecoin at the heart of crypto’s alternative financial universe.

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 first quarter ended December 31, 2022.

Tokay Lite - Versatile, battery-powered Edge AI camera with nightvision, motion detection and TensorFlow Lite support

On January 30, the GitHub blog carried a
brief notice that the checksums of archives (such as tarballs)
generated by the site had just changed. GitHub's engineers were seemingly
unaware of the consequences of such a change — consequences that were
immediately…

It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.

Here’s a recent result I’ve been meaning to highlight. Most readers here will have heard of CAR-T therapy, chimeric antigen receptor T-cells. That’s the technique where you take T-cell precursor cells from a patient and modify them to where they’re “tuned…

More on the iOS/Android cultural divide: Technology is not enough.

Dr. Jack ReVelle disarmed two hydrogen bombs that accidentally fell near Goldsboro during the Cold War. But a military career of cleaning up nuclear accidents may have cut his life short.