I love learning something that flips my head upside down. So, let’s look at one of the coolest head-flippers I’ve found: Japanese addresses.

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Chapters

00:00 Overview
01:28 What is Freenet
03:13 Distributed Key Value Store
06:07 User Interface
07:51 Searching in a Small World
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Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my public art making, so it’s been interesting to combine…

Juvenile social play predicts adult reproductive success in male bottlenose dolphins, a new study has found.

To be young today is to face the future – the planet’s as well as one’s own – at a time when social safety nets...

It's exactly what it sounds like

If you read my previous blog post, you probably already know that I like my smart home open-source and very local, and that certainly includes any voice assistant I may have. If you watched the video demo, you have probably also found out that it’s……

He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer

Seattle is still considered an "ideal breeding ground for future unicorns," according to Startup Genome. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023.

This father has been using spaced repetition (Anki) to teach his children how to read several years earlier than average. Michael Nielsen and Gwern tweeted about the interesting case of a reddit user, u/caffeine314 (henceforth dubbed “CoffeePie”), who has…

The spacecraft has resumed full science operations after a technical issue began creating complications in November 2023.

Next generation FPGA connectivity

A major lunar standstill is about to occur. The phenomenon happens every 18.6 years when the moon rises and sets at its most extreme points on the horizon, while also climbing to its highest and lowest point in the sky.