A map of torii gates located outside of Japan (except for US military presence), created by Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz (Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture).

Or, the early history of Intel Corporation

During a Thursday meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, a source said.

I’m a firm believer in text labels. Interfaces are over-stuffed with icons. The more icons we have to scan over, the more brain power we put

Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.

A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could play out.

Most employees will receive about 10% less equity options this year

Using PeerDB open source to reliably replicate data from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse.

SVDQuant supports NVFP4 on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 3× speedup over BF16 and better image quality than INT4. Try our interactive demo below or at https://svdquant.mit.edu/! Our code is all available at https://github.com/mit-han-lab/nunchaku.

Using data to prevent gun violence at schools.

Notes on using the Z3 constraint solver with the Clang Static Analyzer

Exploring how to fix optimistic concurrency failures and bugs in Lucene using Fray. We'll be making concurrency debugging less painful by using open-source tools.

Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns, unicorns, or mermaids

Power testing a consumer continuous glucose monitor

This surely won't make me seem like a crank.
Further watching:

@HGModernism on addiction to scrolling and the Skinner box mechanism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOol5OTasw
@acollierastro on the AI hype cycle and how professionals understand there's…

A comprehensive list of things that grind the gears of most software engineer, especially the seniors