Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe.

A friend recently asked how to get started watching Gundam, and as I tripped all over myself, equal parts excitement and not wanting to sound like a

A very WIP port of https://www.github.com/n64decomp/sm64 for the PlayStation 1 - malucard/sm64-psx

Analyze ALPR/Flock camera coverage across US counties. See how many routes to essential services pass by surveillance cameras.

ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.

Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform - hashicorp/terraform-cdk

For decades, procedural worlds have been built on procedural noise functions such as Perlin noise, which are fast and infinite, yet fundamentally limited in realism and large-scale coherence. We...

Status for all planned and unplanned events for Apple Services.

In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...

With ill-advised and dangerous age verification laws proliferating across the United States and around the world, creating surveillance and censorship regimes that will be used to harm both youth and

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.

Novel

There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...

Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for
several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and
have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations
were marked in the...