The Last American Reed Switch Maker
GE killed their biggest competitor. Russia lost another. A Nebraska family kept making the component nobody thinks about, and now they basically own the market.
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YouTube is a Research Library. Here's How to Search It Like One.
30 YouTube tools to find exactly what you need, and the verification framework underneath all of them.
The Nut That Holds the Guardrail
A 97-year-old fastener manufacturer in Albion, Michigan, trading below book value with zero analyst coverage, just paid a special dividend.
Tolerances: Expectations for Industrial 3D Printing
In the world of additive manufacturing, “What tolerance can you guarantee?” is the question everyone asks -- and the one no responsible shop should ever answer with a promise. Industrial 3D...
Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up | Quanta Magazine
By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far bigger program to understand why numbers behave the way they do.
What It's Like to Be...a Custom Harvester - By Dan Heath - Behavioral Scientist
Harvesting five million bushels of wheat and corn from Texas to Montana, outrunning hailstorms that decimate a year's income in 20 minutes, and running a multimillion-dollar convoy of equipment down the highway with Josh Beckley, a third-generation custom harvester from Kansas.
Your North Star Metric is Lying to You
The measurement philosophy that blinds the room it’s supposed to illuminate
The Old Grey Thinker (@theoldgreythinker)
Neighbour asked if I'd "found my purpose yet" in retirement. Felt like being asked if I'd located the meaning of existence between Tesco runs. I've spent forty years at sea, fifteen in emergency services, and now apparently need a purpose beyond not dying and keeping the…
A satellite company supporting Ukraine appears to be in Russia's crosshairs - Ars Technica
This capability is not common for satellites conducting typical missions."
An Essential Guide to Croatia's Dalmatian Coast—Which Now Has Direct Flights From the US
How to explore the best of the region's Roman ruins, Mediterranean cuisine, and white pebble beaches.
Black Gold and Grey Markets
Adventures in energy trading
Snippets from Spain
Baffled in Madrid’s Oldest Hardware Store
Best AI Agents for Software Development Ranked: A Benchmark-Driven Look at the Current Field - MarkTechPost
The AI coding agent field in 2026 is more capable, more fragmented, and harder to benchmark than it looks. Claude Code leads on code quality at 87.6% SWE-bench Verified. GPT-5.5 tops Terminal-Bench at 82.7%. But the benchmark OpenAI itself declared contaminated in February 2026…
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Why radioactive molecules threaten CERN’s next particle accelerator
To solve the mystery of why the universe exists, physicists have long assumed they need bigger, pricier machines. A radical proposal suggests cheap radioactive molecules could do the job instead
What's the Sticker Price of Exorbitant Privilege?
If you buy into this Pflueger/Yared perspective, then the price of exorbitant privilege is outspending your military adversaries. And the US has outspent other advanced economies by a large margin when you express defense spending as a fraction of GDP. I took its NATO partners…
Bash Arithmetic: Integer and Floating-Point Math
How to do arithmetic in Bash with the (( )) operator, $(( )) expansion, the let builtin, and bc or awk for floating-point math the shell cannot do natively.
How the Cold War Superpowers Tried to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation | TheCollector
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between US President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev were a milestone in the Cold War arms race.
Original Prusa MK4S, the More User-Friendly 3D Printer Than Bambu
Looking for a 3D printer brand more welcoming to owners' tinkering after the Bambu Labs uproar? Let me introduce the Czech Republic's Prusa.
Synthesize Realistic 3D Medical Images at Scale to Ship Pre‑Trained Models | NVIDIA Technical Blog
High‑quality 3D medical imaging data is the foundation of modern radiology AI, but access to it is often constrained by data scarcity, privacy restrictions…
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A Scientist Spent Decades Studying Laughter and Found Something Weird About Humans
Psychology professor Robert Provine spent decades studying laughter and learned a lot about humans along the way.
Qwen Introduces Qwen3.7-Max: A Reasoning Agent Model With a 1M-Token Context Window - MarkTechPost
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max is a reasoning agent model with a 1M-token context window, scoring 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
George Town, Penang, Malaysia: Trains, Ferries, and Life in Little India
We went to Malaysia for the first time in December 2025 on a bit of a whim.
MLE (max likelihood estimation) (@probabilityandstatistics)
Maximum Likelihood Estimation is the quiet engine underneath almost everything in ML, DL, and RL. Most people learn it once in a stats class and move on. They shouldn't. It's not just a parameter-fitting trick — it's the philosophical foundation of why our models work at all…
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century
Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
I spent 31 hours on the math behind TurboQuant so you don't have to
A deep dive by Baseten's research team breaking down the math behind TurboQuant
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
The open-source 3D printing community is lining up to fund a war against Bambu Lab, after it threatened a developer who modified its open-source code.
Meet Turbovec: A Rust Vector Index with Python Bindings, and Built on Google's TurboQuant Algorithm - MarkTechPost
turbovec is a Rust-built vector index using Google Research's TurboQuant that compresses 10M documents from 31 GB to 4 GB.
Chad Wallace (@chadwallace1)
Silicon photonics is one of the hottest and fastest moving markets to address high speed data demands in co-packaged optics (CPO) in AI data centers. In this post I cover a few important high-level details to better understand silicon photonic circuits. These include: Link…
The invention of buses - Works in Progress Magazine
Map of Metal
An interactive map of Metal history and the influential bands that helped shaped the genres we know today
Imec Semiconductor Technology Roadmap: CFETs in 2033
We’re only 7 years from the next evolution in transistors
An Overview of AI Accelerators: MAC Operations, DRAM/SRAM, Performance Metrics, and Architecture
Learning from a classic AI accelerator - Eyeriss
Surprising Ways to Reduce Turnover in High-Pressure, High-Skill Jobs
A study of ICU nurses over more than two years reveals how hospitals may be misreading the retention problem.
Overload drains people; meaningful responsibility anchors them
This does not mean hospitals should simply pile more work onto nurses
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llm-wiki. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Housewives Nameplate
Express yourself at work or bring some fun to a colleague or friend's desk with a quotable desk sign. Let everyone know that you've got the receipts! proof! timeline! screenshots! So that no matter how busy you are, you'll always make time to discuss the Real Housewives • Black…
Where did all the good sculptors go?
Episode 17 is about carving a new sculpture tradition.
How to Install Podman on Ubuntu: Rootless Container Alternative to Docker
Step-by-step instructions for installing Podman on Ubuntu, running rootless containers, building images with Buildah, and switching from Docker.
The case for and against clipping
Clipping is the creator growth hack of the year, but there are strong arguments for and against the practice. We break them down.
Numerical Python 3rd edition
This book demonstrates how to work with mathematical modeling and solve problems with Python's numerical, symbolic, and visualization techniques.
New magnetic chip design could outperform today’s AI accelerators
Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a magnetic switching device that operates at speeds up to 1,000 times faster
If You Feel Guilty All the Time, You Probably Have a High IQ. Here’s Why.
High IQ people can be haunted by guilt in a way most people just don’t understand. It follows you into moments where nothing is technically wrong.
The night clerk
At 2:30 in the morning, the night clerk at the hotel is a great help if you’ve locked yourself out of your room. But if you want to complain about the hours of the gym, the hotel’s envi…
Meet the children’s literature startup that wants to unseat Scholastic as the king of the book fair
Literati has spent years rebuilding the elementary school book fair into something closer to an art installation. Now, with an acquisition by private equity, it's ready to scale fast.
A field guide to quantum computer qubits
Here are six ways to build a quantum computer
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Verification Could Help Secure Crypto Networks
Vitalik Buterin said mathematically verified software may help protect cryptographic infrastructures as AI improves both code generation and vulnerability discovery.
A System Architecture Breakdown of a DSP-Based Modern Wireline Transceiver
How high-speed data requirements influence chip architectural complexity
Why Your Second Brain is Dead Weight
Your Notes Aren't the Bottleneck
alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books
A curated list of best cuda programming books