On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge

This is the 100th episode!
And the release date of Kirby's Dream Land.
To commemorate (?) this milestone, I'll be sharing a presentation I gave in the past.

Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques …

OSI Deprogrammer Re-conceptualizing cyberspace ___ By Robert Graham 2023-10-01 (@erratarob, @erratarob@infosec.exchange) Original doc here. 1. Abstract
9 2. Introduction
10 2.1. Reader requirements
17 2.2. Organization of this document
18 2.3. About…

Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.

I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up …

Detector IceCube, the South Pole neutrino observatory, is a cubic-kilometer particle detector made of Antarctic ice and located near the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It is buried beneath the surface, extending to a depth of about 2,500 meters. A surface…

I learned a lot about the heart over the last 2 weeks, and discovered an amazing similarity between our heart and distributed computer systems. Let me show you how our heart deals with the CAP theorem.

Here's my story:

Starting in August, I increased my…

Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc.…

Given a set $$$S$$$ of $$$n$$$ points in the 2D plane, the Voronoi diagram is a partition of the plane into regions. The region associated with a point $$$p\in S$$$ contains precisely the points $$$q$$$ such that $$$q$$$ is closer to $$$p$$$ than any other…

Colaboratory notebook

Flawless is an execution engine for durable computation. It will run your code until completion even in the presence of hardware or software failure.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

In a randomized controlled clinical trial, heated yoga sessions led to reduced depressive symptoms in adults with moderate-to-severe depression.

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