When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told—until now.

REON POCKET is a wearable thermal device that can directly cool or warm the part of the body that the device is in contact with.

This document presents new time-based UUID formats which are suited for use as a database key.


A common case for modern applications is to create a unique identifier for use as a primary key in a database table.
This identifier…

Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

My ElixirConf EU 2024 keynote is up on youtube. I'm hoping it will help folks gain the confidence to go out and... ship it!

I often say 'machine learning...

A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres. - pgmq/pgmq

Software for knitting. Contribute to alefore/knit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ofcom sets out how we expect online services to meet their legal responsibilities to protect children online.

Web-crawled pretraining datasets underlie the impressive "zero-shot" evaluation performance of multimodal models, such as CLIP for classification/retrieval and Stable-Diffusion for image...

Opal Sandy, aged 18 months, was born completely deaf due to condition auditory neuropathy

Conventions MiB = Megabytes (2^20 bytes) Gb = Gigabits (2^27 bytes, or 128MiB) GiB = Gibibytes (2^30 bytes) Background on HBM2 HBM2 is a type of stacked memory, with each stack containing multiple DRAM dies (chips), and each die supporting 2 channels. Every…

A Hertz Presidents Circle customer was charged a fee of $277.39 for not filling up the gas on a Tesla model 3 in Los Angeles. This is an obvious, impossible claim because it’s a Tesla that doesn’t run on gas. But Hertz customer service is so bad, that they…

"I urge everyone to continue to look for ways to appropriately use US person queries..."

Personality trait similarity among ordinary relatives is surprisingly low, with parent-offspring and sibling-sibling correlations usually r ≤ .15. We explain why these correlations are biased in typical single-method studies and argue that this problem can…

It sure looks like Tesla has a hiring freeze after weeks of "hardcore" layoffs.

Posted by Long Zhao, Senior Research Scientist, and Ting Liu, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research An astounding number of videos are av...

ESP32 DRUM SYNTH MACHINE. Contribute to zircothc/DRUM_2004_V1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Andrew Huberman, neuroscientist and podcast superstar, shares misinformation about cannabis, but the experts hit back with data and research

OpenAI's Preferred Publisher Program offers media companies licensing deals.