The Washington Post writes The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? This article has some good data, but I think misses the point with sub-heads like “Shine …

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Mozilla claims that Microsoft doesn't give Windows users the freedom of choice when selecting the default browser on Windows.

I am trying to capture “through the optics” pictures of the AVP, and it is unveiling both interesting information on how the AVP works and the second test pattern I tried “broke&#…

A 2024 plea for lean software

Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it.

Scientists in the Netherlands have sought to understand the reason for unexpected gains in vertical PV systems and found that these installations have a much higher heat transfer coefficient than their horizontally deployed counterparts.

NYU and TII researchers get robots into the air with fast simulations on a consumer laptop

Until earlier this week, the support website for networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks was exposing potentially sensitive information tied to customer products, including the exact devices each customer bought, as well as each device's warranty status…

Why one tiny newspaper in Whitesburg, Kentucky still screams for press freedom despite arson, abuse from the public and financial challenges.

Welcome to the 2030s.

Assortment of technology startup infrastructure recommendations

+256,000,000 points per plot, +60 Fps on shity laptop. Only limit is the size of your RAM. - branc116/brplot

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(Enjoy the blog? Please consider donating – there’s a PayPal button at the top right of the site!) Over the past several years of spending far too much time and money on stationery, I’ve learned a thing or two — about mistakes I make over and over, about…

Some patterns are only made practical thanks to Rust's memory safety, and too dangerous to use in C++. Here's a concrete example.

[Special thank you to Ian Kivlichan for many useful pointers (E.g. the 100+ year old Nature paper “Vox populi”) and nice feedback. 🙏 ]
High-quality data is the fuel for modern data deep learning model training. Most of the task-specific labeled data comes…

Our co-founder Akshay talks to Skiff co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg about their startup's vision and journey to Notion.