In recent years, a number of prominent computer scientists, along with academics in fields such as philosophy and physics, have lent credence to the notion that machines may one day become as...

Baba Is You is a philosophical video game that facilitates the kind of thinking needed for frontier topics in the sciences of life and mind.

Perplexity AI claims it sends a user agent and respects robots.txt but it absolutely does not

Going in depth into the Address Sanitizer internals.

A Tesla was in its self-driving mode when it crashed into a parked patrol vehicle responding to a fatal crash in Orange County Thursday morning, police said. The officer was on traffic control duty…

This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) i…

Rickrolling is an Internet cultural phenomenon born in the mid 2000s. Originally confined to Internet fora, it has spread to other channels and media. In this paper, we hypothesize that...

ESASky is an application that allows you to visualise and download public astronomical data from space-based missions.

Preface NOTE: I have created a whole book, loosely based on this article! You can read more about it at odinbook.com. For comparison: This article contains 12400 words, the book contains 76000 words.
This article is an introduction to the Odin Programming…

Yifeng Chen has been at the helm of dozens of photovoltaic advances

Virtual environments play a key role in benchmarking advances in complex planning and decision-making tasks but are expensive and complicated to build by hand. Can current language models...

On his way to be sworn in as the most powerful man in the world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to…

Embedded Swift brings the safety and expressivity of Swift to constrained environments. Explore how Embedded Swift runs on a variety of microcontrollers through a demonstration using an off-the-shelf Matter device. Learn how the Embedded Swift subset packs…

What kind of R-and-D team do you want to build?

The tumor-seeking radiopharmaceuticals are charting a new course in oncology, with promise for targeted treatments with fewer side effects

Sonos has amended its T&Cs and deleted an important clause that prohibits the sale of customer data. Anyone who wants to continue using their Sonos devices is forced to accept the T&Cs.

At the risk of stating the obvious even more obviously than I usually do: sometimes the perfect approach involves tolerating imperfection.


Imperfection?! Yes. Specifically, the more macroscopic one’s view becomes, the more microscopic imperfections may…

Instead of the Game & Watch, the US got the Mego Time-Out. We recovered the original commercial.

Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune

Original source code for Impulse Tracker, a music tracker for DOS - jthlim/impulse-tracker