Terms and Endearment - Yemenia Expat Contract: Full Info - A carrier which is very rarely mentioned on here, I’m going to give you an insight into what it is like to work for them under one of those famous expat contracts that have floated about here and…

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Thank you to Bucknell University for inviting me to be this year's commencement speaker. And congratulations to the Class of 2025! 











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Recent impressive results from large reasoning models have been interpreted as a triumph of Chain of Thought (CoT), especially of training on CoTs sampled from base LLMs to help find new reasoning...

When Large Language Models are used as judges for decision-making across various sensitive domains, they consistently exhibit unpredictable and hidden measurement biases, making their verdicts unreliable despite common prompt engineering practices.

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The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

A fast and light-weight multithreaded file processing library for Java. - GitHub - MayankPratap/Samchika: A fast and light-weight multithreaded file processing library for Java.

Type inference has a reputation for causing unhelpful error messages from the compiler when there is a type error. For example, here’s a typical comment:

Superpower for Your Memories Worth Keeping.

The country is just emerging from a period of political turmoil with a new prime minister in place. But now Alberta, a conservative Western province, is planning a referendum to break away.

How to setup emacs dired-mode in xdg-mime, specifically for file management.

We present a universal construction of Diophantine equations with bounded complexity in Isabelle/HOL. This is a formalization of our own work in number theory.
Hilbert's Tenth Problem was...

This Guide is a birds-eye-view of all the optical systems and lens design forms out there, and will be an essential tool for any lens designer's toolbox.

The secret life of wind tunnels

You've probably wondered where these otherworldly pixel-art images seen across the web are coming from. The answer is the PC-98.