How I scaled One Million Checkboxes to handle half a million users

Once a secretive Google X project, the startup Skip is debuting an exoskeleton designed for hiking, alongside outdoor gear legend Arc’teryx.

In this post, I’ll iteratively optimize an implementation of matrix multiplication written in CUDA.My goal is not to build a cuBLAS replacement, but to deepl...

Investigators identified 16 human-caused fires on the Mescalero Apache Reservation near Ruidoso. They linked six of the fires to a couple, including the destructive Salt Fire.

Hi, I'm Lex (they/them)
I made a very silly fax service.
In the video it is running on York Hackspace's internal phone system.
It also ran at EMFCamp 2024 on the copper telephone network.

Source code is here: https://github.com/lexbailey/compilerfax

Enjoy…

1. Listen to the birds. That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they...

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.

Let's design some procedurally animated animals!

This video is a tutorial/explanation for a simple procedural animation technique I recently learned about. Essentially, it's animation rigging using a 2D chain simulation. I provide an animated explanation…

Digital audio processing is a complex yet fascinating subject. Getting a deeper understanding requires knowledge in multiple technical disciplines, including physics, electrical/electronical engineering, and some software engineering when it comes to parts…

I've always wanted to understand color theory, so I started reading about the XYZ color space which looked like it was the mother of all color spaces. I had no idea what that meant, but it was created in 1931 so studying 93-year old research seemed like a…

Supplemental video for the SIGGRAPH 2024 Best Paper "Repulsive Shells" by Josua Sassen, Henrik Schumacher, Martin Rumpf, Keenan Crane.

For more information see https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RepulsiveShells/index.html

Abstract: This paper develops…

Visual programming and textual code should co-exist next to each other, not replace one another

Poorly designed laws are forcing global firms to leave.

Last year we rebuilt our well-loved Stamen basemaps from scratch, re-creating them on a totally new tech stack in partnership with Stadia Maps. This was a bittersweet and challenging process, trying to build new styles that matched the aesthetics of the old…

For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars.

Officials seized documents from NSO Group in effort to stop handover of information about notorious hacking tool, files suggest