New Zealand researchers aim to combine plasma thrusters and superconducting magnets

Children of Syrian refugees inherit the stress of civil war.

Micro event loop library to teach the basic concepts of python coroutines and how event loop libraries might be implemented - micro_events.py

A while back my machine was so messed up that I could barely ssh onto it. 3,200% CPU utilization - all 32 cores on the host were fully utilized! Compare that to my last bug where it only used 1 core, 100% Fortunately, it was using Java 17 runtime which...

I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I…

Traffic trends from WebMD, Quora, Stack Overflow, Chegg, G2, CNET, Reddit, Wikipedia, and Substack!

For some time, I’ve argued that a common conception of AI is misguided. This is the idea that AI systems like large language and vision models are individual intelligent agents, analogous to human agents. Instead, I’ve argued that these models are “cultural…

When Brent Chapman’s doctor first pitched him on the idea of having one of his own teeth surgically embedded in his eye to restore his sight, he says he felt “a little apprehensive.”

The Ukrainian leader was told to leave the White House after an angry exchange with the US president.

Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence - salesforce/Merlion

Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting.



I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it.


Troubleshooting is often learned tacitly, in…

Given the [immense]([url](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mozilla-responds-to-backlash-over-new-terms-saying-it-s-not-using-people-s-data-for-ai/ar-AA1A07gz)) fallout [from]([url](https://www.androidauthority.com/firefox-data-sharing-change-3530771/))…

Molecular Psychiatry - The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence

How much more proof do we need that this administration is completely compromised? There is zero reason for the US to relax any offensive digital actions against Russia. If anything, we should be applying more.

Martin Matishak over at The Record writes that…

At Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

Pure scaling in shambles

More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society

olmOCR is an open-source tool for converting PDFs to text with high accuracy, preserving reading order and supporting tables, equations, and handwriting.