Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time

[The wordpress markdown inclusion does a very bad job, it seems, there have been some idiotic formatting errors. I hope that these are fixed, now.] A years-long effort led by Kayvan Memarian and Pe…

Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.

“Mansfield Park” continues to complicate the writer’s legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel’s dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.

Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak

High-Performance Implementation of OpenAI's TikToken. - M4THYOU/TokenDagger

When visiting the dentist, you might remember being poked and prodded by a thin metal instrument to check your teeth and gums. This technique, called periodontal probing, is used to look for signs of ...

Entry-level jobs have taken a major hit, dropping by nearly a third since the advent of widely available generative AI tools.

This question is increasingly central to debates about the future of work and closely tied to the growing interest in the four-day workweek

China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong space station Two Chinese astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, marking their second spacewalk in five weeks.

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a pretty well-known bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES where some stages have spinning barrels that don’t work properly. One of the earliest pictured here, in the first stage of Krem Quay (third world):
After you jump into the barrel…

The Research Pipeline is Stalling



The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in roughly…

Test and compare performance of different AI language model APIs

LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets

Vercel recently announced BotID, an anti-bot meant to protect against bots without requiring manual intervention. This post reverse-engineers the noscript and takes a peek inside.

See my follow-up article: “A Fast, Growable Array With Stable Pointers in C”
I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere1. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll…

Most numbers that are representable as machine integers are not exactly representable as floating point numbers.