What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?

ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program. - chrxh/alien

1) Foundational math. 2) Classical machine learning. 3) Deep learning. 4) Cutting-edge machine learning.

The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field.
In 2000, the first edition was widely…

Introducing BMX, an iteration on the industry standard BM25 search algorithm. Through the incorporation of entropy-weighted query-document similarity and weighted query augmentation, the algorithm can increase search performance on the most relevant information…

Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft.

FlightAware has exposed pretty much all user data on the open web.

🍃spring-rs is a application framework written in rust inspired by java's spring-boot - spring-rs/spring-rs

I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up everything, had my goodbyes. In the spirit of SRE (as an ex-SRE), I thought it would be fun to write a little retrospective in the form of a postmortem.
Introduction…

If you're getting plenty of leafy greens, dark chocolate, nuts, and beans, you're probably doing fine. But if your diet is lacking, you might want to pay attention to this new eye-opening study that links a mineral deficiency issue to DNA changes.

Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps

A freak diagnosis led me to a renowned neurosurgeon—and his decades-long quest to develop medical treatments that use sound.

GMB union urges Health and Safety Executive to investigate ‘shocking’ figures revealed by the Observer

Getting started with Zig's meta programming capabilities by leveraging a few useful functions

Unlock the mysteries of the seemingly random pie, alien, or eyeball you can spot in the corner of your favorite Bizarro cartoon.

Let's try to understand what the TypeScript guys mean when they talk about reverse mapped types.

Transforms complex documents like PDFs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows. - opendatalab/MinerU

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.