Ivy League undergraduate demographics in 2023

In 1968 there was a sudden outbreak of three unusual tick-borne diseases that sickened people living around Long Island Sound, an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of New York and Connec…

A collection of logical, lateral thinking brain training puzzles with answers for job interviews. Now with ChatGPT and Bard

The noscript says it: if you’re involved in drug or medical development and have experienced the FDA’s torpor, or vengeance, consider getting in touch; anonymously is fine. I want to make …

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

It's not the year of Linux on desktop; it's the year of Linux on a handheld.

The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are "bullshit" has been confirmed by a new study.

We're screaming with excitement as the original Wilhelm Scream — a classic sound effect used since the 1950s — has found its way to Soundly!

Esteemed sound designer Craig Smith discovered and restored the famous scream while converting an old tape-based…

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A few weeks back, we released pg_embedding, a new extension for Postgres and LangChain which introduced Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) indexes for vector similarity search. This new indexing method resulted in 20x faster queries at a 99% accuracy…

Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5

We made the rocks

In Switzerland, there's a new cryonics company: and they invited me to have a look around. I had questions: legal, practical, and ethical, and I want to be clear: this is not an endorsement. I just wasn't going to turn down that invitation. ■ Tomorrow Bio:…

The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

A blog about the ecosystem of PicoLisp - tutorials, real-world projects, functional programming theory.