An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…

Only 6 of the 94 SPACs have a positive return.

For many, the idea of having a few dozen hookworms set up shop in your gut sounds more like a Survivor challenge than a beneficial health therapy, but scientists see a bright future in this human worm farm for treating many chronic conditions.

Bun gets debugger support, fetch streaming, and `bun update`. ReadStream and WriteStream from `node:tty` are implemented, including raw mode on `process.stdin`. SvelteKit now works in Bun. Plus bug fixes and stability improvements.

Success and Litigation

Russian state media has said eight bodies have been found following the crash 60 miles north of Moscow, and that the mercenary leader's name was on the passenger list - two months after his failed coup attempt against Vladimir Putin.

Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?”. I’ve been working with web components for a few years now, so I…

In a VentureBeat Q&A, Princeton University's Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, authors of the upcoming "AI Snake Oil," discuss AI hype.

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes

an interpreter for a turing-complete programming language based on Spotify playlists - h313/spet

Child groups asked the FTC to investigate YouTube ad placements on kids' videos.

On October 3, 2023, Backblaze is making some updates and upgrades to our products and pricing. Read the full announcement here.

Here is a Go function, if_max(). It finds the max value of an array of integers. Simple enough:

Using quasars as ticking cosmic clocks, scientists took a journey back in time, discovering time progressed five times slower just after the Big Bang.

The sweet dessert is an important part of the culinary identity of so many places that people sometimes dispute claims to its origins

Kellogg’s is desperate to save Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam from Mexico’s healthy food rules — rules the U.S. may soon copy.

Arrays are unique objects inside the JVM, and understanding their structure makes for better coding.

Following up on the work from our previous blog post, we are releasing today an arXiv paper noscriptd “Giraffe: Adventures in Expanding Context Lengths in LLMs”. Giraffe is a new family of models that...