For over half a century, the CIA’s World Factbook has been one of the most quietly useful things the federal government has ever produced. A comprehensive, regularly updated, freely available…

This prospective cohort study investigates whether coffee and tea intake are associated with dementia risk and cognitive function in female participants from the Nurses’ Health Study and male participants from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.

This is the most complex automaton I’ve ever attempted: a fully articulated archer designed to draw arrows from a back quiver, load them, and shoot with believable technique. What began as an ambitious idea quickly became a long battle with friction, cable…

Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?

Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.

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The Open Source control plane for self-managed, BYOC, and on-prem deployments. Everything you need to distribute applications to self-managed customers out of the box. - distr-sh/distr

Qin et al. demonstrated the chondroprotective effects of semaglutide in obesity-related
osteoarthritis. Mechanistically, these effects are independent of body weight loss
and involve metabolic reprogramming of chondrocyte via the GLP-1R-AMPK-PFKFB3 signaling…

A theoretical and practical deep dive into Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and it’s applications in Large Language Models from scratch. - ashworks1706/rlhf-from-scratch

How Cycling Mikey's quest for road safety divided London

A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests—we need artifacts …

US AI-Related Investment Keeps Breaking Records, With Total Software, Computer, & Data Center Spending Now Exceeding $1T Per Year

Virtual texturing is not about supporting larger textures, but about aligning memory residency with what can actually be visible on screen. This article explains the system end-to-end, from addressing to feedback and residency decisions.

How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.

One of the hottest commodities in the military, or even for civilian contractors, is having a vehicle down range when you are deployed in the Middle East. Anyone who is someone has their own Ford

In year 8, I discovered it takes longer than I think to write a book, found alignment with my business, and regained my love for life as an indie founder.