From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Study co-led by Mass General Brigham found that one in four patients with severe brain injury who appeared unresponsive responded to instructions covertly. Understanding this phenomenon can help guide decisions about life-sustaining treatment, goals of care…

The new version of the Underground map created by Maxwell Roberts has proved to be a hit.

Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.

In this paper we present a new method for automatic transliteration and segmentation of Unicode cuneiform glyphs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Cuneiform is one of the earliest known writing system in the world, which documents millennia…

Haxe-based language for defining 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns.

Efficient filtering of polygonal shapes with closed-form solutions based on Green’s theorem with piecewise-polynomial filters (e.g. box/bilinear/bicubic).

Hilary Mantel: Journeys Into the Interior - A Life of One's Own by Joanna Field; An Experiment in Leisure by Joanna Field

Diy Rc Submarine: In this instructable, I will show you how I made a cool submarine that you can control in water.
Dive into an underwater adventure as you build your very own RC submarine from scratch!
 Hi, my name is Ben, and I’m 15 years old. This is my…

MIT researchers used large language models to efficiently detect anomalies in time-series data, without the need for costly and cumbersome training steps. This method could someday help alert technicians to potential problems in equipment like wind turbines…

US findings suggesting ageing is not a slow and steady process could explain spikes in health issues at certain ages

A rich set of functions for working with date, time and durations.

After years of legal proceedings, New Zealand's Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has approved Kim Dotcom's extradition to the United States.

A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better

Symbolica is a blazing fast and easy-to-use computer algebra library for Python and Rust.

The ideas behind Product Market Fit (PMF) were first articulated by Marc Andreessen in a detailed blog post around 2007 [https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html].

A fun, hands-on guide to writing your own compiler for a real-world programming language.