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

When I recently interviewed Mike Clark, he told me, “…you’ll see the actual foundational lift play out in the future on Zen 6, even though it was really Zen 5 that set the table for that.” And at that same Zen 5 architecture event, AMD’s Chief Technology…

All good things must come to an end. I've decided to end the Funtoo Linux project. Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to move on to other things.…

Tailscale's CEO, Avery Pennarun, explores the future of the internet, discussing the evolution of networking, the issues with today's complex systems, and how Tailscale is simplifying connectivity for developers with a new, more efficient approach. Discover…

The course provides a systematic framework to understand the most challenging issues in sustainability in the real estate industry. It examines economic mechanisms, technological advances, business models, building design, and investment and financing strategies…

Layers of Optimization

I got some fancy new speakers last week.
They’re powered speakers and they have streaming service integrations built in, unlike the 35-year-old passive speakers I’m upgrading from. Overall they’re great! But they’re so loud that it’s difficult to make small…

Customs and Border Protection insists that it can search electronics without a warrant. A federal judge just said it can't.

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent email verification needed to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder to third-party services that allow logins through Google's…

Intel finally provides a clearer overview of Raptor Lake instability issues No recall, no fix for affected CPUs, investigation still ongoing.  Intel has responded to press inquiries about the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen Core processors.…

I recently took delivery of a new replacement logic board for the ubiquitous classic Casio F-91W from Sensor Watch. The F-91W needs no introduction. It’s probably the most popular quartz watch in the world with something like 90 million total units sold.

An interactive HTML pretty-printer for machine learning research in IPython notebooks. - google-deepmind/treescope

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