We’ve noted repeatedly that while “AI” (language learning models) hold a lot of potential, the rushed implementation of half-assed early variants are causing no shortage of headac…

How did ancient Greek music sound?

Listen to the first choral performance with reconstructed aulos of reconstructed ancient scores of Athenaeus Paean (127 BC) and Euripides Orestes chorus (408 BC), with the evidence presented and explained by Professor…

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

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A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at K'anwitznal (Ucanal) and the making of a new era of political rule - Volume 98 Issue 399

The origin story of a 3D Modeler made very quickly

About better aliasing semantics for `Box`

Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around OpenAI tech.

Why gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food

Hacking on PostgreSQL is really hard. I think a lot of people would agree with this statement, not all for the same reasons. Some might poin...

Welcome to the second part of the series where I am trying to identify how much is “enough” to retire early in San Francisco. Two years ago I had determined that my “Enough Number” was $4,000,000. This number always assumed I would leave San Francisco. While

Programming blog of Eugene

V5.30 arrives – with RPi Wi-Fi support

A high-performance, "quantum-inspired" Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) library written in pure and safe Rust. - QuState/PhastFT

The deal would allow J&J to resolve the lawsuits through a third bankruptcy filing of a subsidiary company, LTL Management. 

How I learned to stop worrying and love the burn.

In medieval England, land was conventionally held in return for either rent (in the form of money or other items) or service (acts performed by one party to the other). These items could range from token gifts like a rose or an arrowhead to valuable crops…

He was represented by the same legal company as Dean Barnett, who died from a gunshot.