We might think that an album measuring a metre in length would be a cumbersome thing to travel with, but it would probably be made less difficult if you had “100 boats, 87 elephants, 355 camels, 1,033 bullocks, and more than 3,000 attendants” to assist you…

Text compression for generating keyboard expansions - eschluntz/compress

Generative AI, and ChatGPT in particular have been catnip to the tech press, the mainstream media, and the conversations of professionals in nearly every

I came across a random tweet, found a Wikipedia page and bumped into some smart people and long story short, apparently compression is equivalent to general intelligence.

In the United States we have HIPAA regulations in place to (among other things) prevent healthcare providers, insurance providers, and any other entity that handles medical information from leaking

Google uses search takedowns to "moderate" users' privately saved links collections, used by some as bookmarks.

The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?

Inside Axon, the maker of Taser electroshock guns, workers take hits from the company’s weapons or get inked with its logos. Axon says it’s all voluntary.

How a team of spies in Mexico got their hands on Russia's space secrets—and tried to change the course of the Cold War.

The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children’s access

Let’s make Chess more fun in Single-Player.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are the go-to model for learning functions from data, such as image classifiers or language models.

Russia's Cinema Fund says it opposes piracy, in part due to “reputational risks." A furious cinema chief says the country needs pirated Barbie.

Notes on interstellar hitchhikers and the origins of life.

So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled…