A blog about math by Nic Ford

American neurosurgeon Ali Rezai is pioneering ways to try to help people with drug addiction and with Alzheimer's disease. One experiment focuses beams of ultrasound on the brain.

"60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering…

Monks who failed to factor in the leap day placed spring equinox on the wrong day, which meant Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week and Pentecost were also marked on the wrong day.

The oil and gas giant is suing investor groups that want it to slash climate pollution. Interest groups on both sides of the case say it could lead to more lawsuits against activist investors.

This is a lukewarm little story with a few connected bits, but it might be interesting or even helpful. Follow the links in it, for full effect.

Intended audience: You are likely to enjoy this post the most if you are interested in Linux and/or Linux manual pages, or if you enjoy reading about esoteric programming projects.

Back in 2022 Cloudflare announced they were ditching Nginx for an in-house, Rust-written software called Pingora

Unearthing The Oldest Forest on Earth Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! The exploration of an ancient,...

New analysis finds money from Biden’s $1.2tn infrastructure bill has overwhelmingly been spent on widening highways for cars

The Emmy Computer Algebra System. Contribute to mentat-collective/emmy development by creating an account on GitHub.

The adapter is free if you order it before June 30 or $230 if you wait.

A workout tracking web application for personal use (or family, friends), geared towards running and other GPX-based activities - jovandeginste/workout-tracker

Even better than the first film, the stakes are exponentially higher, the power struggles even more mythic, the on-screen world-building richer and more exotically filigreed, and the visuals even more dazzling. I didn’t think this was possible.

A reactive notebook for Python — run reproducible experiments, execute as a noscript, deploy as an app, and version with git.

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

AI labs need to treat accuracy, honesty and unbiasedness as core values.