The media has made the drugs about body politics and our obsession with thinness. They’re telling the wrong story.

In the early 1980s, Drexel became the first university in the country to require all students to have a personal computer, a mandate made possible through a first-of-its-kind partnership with Apple Inc.

Discover the story of the K340A, a one-of-a-kind computer that powered the Soviet Union's ambitious Duga radar system during the Cold War. Designed in 1966 and based on the Residue Classes System, it achieved a performance of 1 million operations per second…

Most of us don’t eat as much fruit and veggies as we know we should, but that goal might now be a bit more achievable. Scientists in Spain have engineered a new “Golden Lettuce” with 30 times more nutrients than the regular green stuff.

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None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative…

Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.

WIP: Next-gen network protocol for reliable data transfer in lossy environments. Outperforms TCP/UDP in high packet loss scenarios. - nyxpsi/nyxpsi

Amazon's AWS cloud computing division already designs several chips for use in its data centers and has hired Intel to package at least one version.

Rearchitecting core services at X

Instructing the model to generate a sequence of intermediate steps, a.k.a., a chain of thought (CoT), is a highly effective method to improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) on...

A small business is suing Indiana after a box containing $43,000 was seized at Indy's FedEx hub.

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

Franzelio is a visual musical instrument where you draw lines and make music. Share your creation with others!

It's hard to make friends as an adult. One lonely man in his 30s finds a nonjudgmental and supportive community at a local spin studio.

A discussion of why I don’t intend to turn Gwern.net into a book, and how trying to write a book can harm writers.