A look at the diversity of tones in PMR transmissions, and my home listening station. Melody detection, CTCSS, DCS, STE.

Calculating the mean of a list of numbers Consider the following problem:

You have a list of floating point numbers. No nasty tricks - these
aren’t NaN or Infinity, just normal “simple” floating point numbers.

Now: Calculate the mean (average). Can you…

Hi, I'm Darius Kazemi and I'm CS&S's Mozilla Fellow. Here are some of the things that I've been researching, building, and planning around the decentralized internet.

"Taking omega-3 fish oil supplements may increase the risk of aggressive prostate cancer by 70%," the Daily Mail reports. The story, covered widely in the media, comes from a large and well designed study that also found that high…

Full-text search is a powerful machine learning algorithm, especially relevant for web developers. This article teaches you the basics, from scratch.

But cable TV still rakes in more money.

Forty years of boxing matches — as many as 55,000 individual fights — have been painstakingly preserved in a video archive. In the age of YouTube and cloud storage, is it worth anything?

The Vessel, a sixteen-story monument nestled in the midst of the now complete “neighborhood” (read: real estate scheme) of Hudson Yards, is a structure that invites parody.

Historically, the assertion that homosexuality is contra naturam—against nature—has been made in order to justify that persecution. Whatever the nature of homophobic bigotry, science is not on your side. As we have seen, homosexuality is natural, and it’s…

The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it

How 11 Deaf Men Shaped NASA's Human Spaceflight Program

🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM. - valeriansaliou/sonic

From Pong to Red Dead: Can video game music change the way you play?

Several websites including Voat, ZeroHedge, Archive.is, LiveLeak, and others have been blocked in Australia and New Zealand in direct contravention to

Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens. Updated January 2023.