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The number pi has an evil twin! It's a number called ϖ with many properties similar to π. There are even mutant trig functions connected to this number, called sl and cl.

So maybe while you were studying trig in high school, some…

Artificial intelligence could reveal how animals of the land, sea and sky talk to others of their species.

Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models

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CFO and co-interim CEO David Zinsner, along with the company’s former CEO, misled shareholders about the financial performance of Intel’s foundry unit, shareholders allege.

The new direct daytime route, via Strasbourg, sweeps through enchanting landscapes from vineyards to forests. But some say it needs to be quicker still if the train is to be more attractive than flying

An evolutionary anthropologist tackles the mystery of the butt

I’ve been using Rust for hobby projects since 2016 and have been working professionally in Rust since 2021, so I tend to consider myself pretty knowledgeable about Rust. I’m already familiar with all the common limitations of Rust’s type system and how to…

A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search - karakeep-app/karakeep

Today I learned the city of Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free for anyone to download 👀

Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'

We attack the state-of-the-art Go-playing AI system KataGo by training adversarial policies against it, achieving a >97% win rate against KataGo running at superhuman settings. Our adversaries do...

Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a solution to this?

A few months ago I saw a talk on buildit, https://buildit.so/ a really neat project that achieves staged metaprogramming as a C++ library. I love the central tenets of being in a mainstream language and not requiring a modified compiler. Right on, brother.…

From psychics to extraterrestrial communication, new temporary and permanent exhibits at the National Cryptologic Museum will have you scratching your head.