Seeing Like a Sedan—Asterisk
Waymos and Cybercabs see the world through very different sensors. Which technology wins out will determine the future of self-driving vehicles.
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Train Your Brain to Handle Hard Things Without Wanting to Quit
A Harvard doctor filmed an entire video without leaving plank position. The neuroscience behind it will change how you think about discomfort.
‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party | Quanta Magazine
Hundreds of physicists (and a few journalists) journeyed to Helgoland, the birthplace of quantum mechanics, and grappled with what they have and haven’t learned about reality.
Understanding the PDK Generation Process - Technical Articles
In this article, we'll walk through the steps of generating a Process Design Kit (PDK) for digital standard cell libraries.
Vector Databases Explained from Scratch | Aman Kharwal
In this article, I’ll explain vector databases from scratch and build a simple semantic search engine in Python for free.
What Shoulda Matchers Is Actually Doing For You
Rails model specs full of setup and error-message checks? There’s a reason so many teams replace them using shoulda-matchers. We’ll look at what those expectations are doing, how they make your tests more resilient to changes, and a lot less noisy.
This Kevlar Medical Brace Folds Flat Like Origami and Might Finally Kill the Plaster Cast - Yanko Design
What do Swiss timepieces and sailing rigging systems have in common with orthopedic braces? More than you might think. The engineers at Osteoid drew inspiration from these precision mechanical systems to create Bracesys, a revolutionary approach to fracture immobilization that…
Breakthrough Metal Could Revolutionize Chip Cooling And Thermal Management
A multi-institution research team has discovered a metallic material that conducts heat nearly three times more efficiently than copper or silver.
Understanding Standard Deviation vs Standard Error
Understand the key differences between standard deviation and standard error with clear examples and practical applications.
The standard deviation measures the spread of individual data points in a sample from a population.
The standard error measures how well a sample mean represents the actual population mean—in other words, how uncertain we are about the sample mean.
Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there
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Hawaiian Pidgin: The History of a Creole Language | TheCollector
The grammatical features of the Creole language known as Hawaiian Pidgin tell us of a society built on the efforts of its multicultural workforce.
6th Annual John Prine Night | Marathon, TX | Oct 11, 2025
John Prine Night is an annual gathering at The French Co. Grocer in Marathon, TX to celebrate the life, music, and spirit of John Prine. Hosted by Sam Stavinoha, the owner and proprietor of The French Co. Grocer, and emceed by Austin-based artist, writer and musician M. Walker…
What are Context Graphs? - MarkTechPost
Explore the concept of Context Graphs and their role in improving Knowledge Graphs for better AI applications.
Knowledge Graphs
They organize information as triples—a head entity, a relation, and a tail entity—forming a graph-like structure where entities are nodes and relationships are edges
The Psychology Gap: Why Teams Misinterpret User Behavior - UX Magazine
Your product isn't failing because of bad design. It's failing because your team is designing in clarity while your users are drowning in chaos. The gap between how you think users behave and how they actually feel their way through your product is quietly breaking every flow…
The extraordinary story of a soccer coach, a kidnapping and a Saudi job that didn’t exist
Adrian Heath was duped into thinking he was on the verge of a new job – only to be held at knifepoint in Morocco. Turns out he's not alone
How Recommendation Systems Learned to Think
Recsys Series Part 2: From collaborative filtering breakthroughs to generative AI agents that can chat about your preferences and explain their reasoning
MIT’s new ‘recursive’ framework lets LLMs process 10 million tokens without context rot
While standard models suffer from context rot as data grows, MIT’s new Recursive Language Model (RLM) framework treats prompts like code variables, unlocking infinite context without the retraining costs.
the MIT team reframes long-context reasoning as a systems problem. By letting models treat prompts as something they can inspect with code
RecSys Fundamentals: The Art and Science of Digital Matchmaking
Recsys Series Part 1: Master the three core approaches that power every modern recommendation engine
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Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents - Microsoft Research
Argos improves multimodal RL by evaluating whether an agent’s reasoning aligns with what it observes over time. The approach reduces visual hallucinations and produces more reliable, data-efficient agents for real-world applications:
Argos is a verification framework for multimodal reinforcement learning
Argos evaluates how those behaviors were produced.
Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.7-Flash: A 30B-A3B MoE Model for Efficient Local Coding and Agents - MarkTechPost
Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.7-Flash: A 30B-A3B MoE (Mixture of Experts) Model for Efficient Local Coding and Agents
Why American needs fewer bus stops
Removing them can turn a service people tolerate into one they’re happy to use.
The VC Corner | Ruben Dominguez | Substack
The VC Corner is where founders stay ahead: sharp news, fundraising strategies, battle-tested playbooks, and the tools to grow. Click to read The VC Corner, by Ruben Dominguez, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
How to build team spirit | Psyche Guides
The glue, or spirit, that binds certain teams is not mystical – you can cultivate it by changing how you work together
How a small island capital reimagines the bureaucratic state | Aeon Essays
Buka Town in Bougainville shows how bureaucratic states could be reimagined, not as concrete buildings but as living gardens
Why Satyendra Nath Bose was more than Einstein’s sidekick | Aeon Essays
The life of Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose illuminates how scientific genius can emerge from the most unexpected quarters
Smashing Newsletter #542: UX Research Strategies and Tools
The 3-Stage Funnel Behind Every Modern Recommender System
Two-Tower models, vector databases, cross-encoders—and how they work together at scale
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh offline control, rate limits, and the rising cost of AI coding tools.
Add Reasoning Skills to Your LLM Apps | Aman Kharwal
In this article, I’ll walk you through a guided project to add reasoning skills to your LLM apps. Add Reasoning Skills to Your LLM Apps.
The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
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Double Take - Orion Magazine
Are people crying Bigfoot when it’s really a bear?
What We Get Wrong About Technology
Blade Runner (1982) is a magnificent film, but there’s something odd about it. The heroine, Rachael, seems to be a beautiful young woman. In reality, she’s a piece of technology — an organic robot …
The toilet-paper principle suggests that we should be paying as much attention to the cheapest technologies as to the most sophisticated.
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Table for One: Why McDonald’s Solo Seats Are Viral in China
The design taps into a growing demand for low-pressure public spaces, as digital life reshapes how people interact.
The Backcountry Rescue Squad at America’s Busiest National Park
In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and rafting adventures go wrong, Paige Williams writes.
How to Get Unstuck: Simple Somatic Regulation Practices - Ness Labs
Somatic regulation is the practice of using your body to change cognitive and emotional states instead of relying on top-down thinking alone.
Somatic regulation is the practice of using your body to change cognitive and emotional states instead of relying on top-down thinking alone.
Creative work benefits from variability
How to Speak with Confidence When You’re Put on the Spot
Stanford’s Matt Abrahams offers practical advice for communicating clearly and calmly under pressure.
1,000 CFETs, SK Hynix Next-Gen NAND, Interconnects Beyond Copper, 2D Materials, and More
IEDM 2025 Round-Up
For leading fabs, this is a 3xx-layer 3D NAND process, which yields on the order of 20-30 Gb/mm2 of memory.
321-layer process has 44% more memory per wafer than the previous generation 238-layer technology
Why Levi’s is teaching high schoolers how to mend their clothes
The denim brand is launching a high school curriculum to teach students how to stitch up tears and replace buttons.
The Approval Economy
Why every purchase is a performance “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.” — Thomas Cooley About a month ago, I published what has become my mo…
This dead simple prompt technique boosts accuracy on LLMs by up to 76%
The researchers found that simply repeating the input query—literally copying and pasting the prompt so it appears twice
look at the architectural limitations of the standard Transformer model.
The Complete Guide to Logging for Python Developers
Stop using print statements and start logging like a pro. This guide shows Python developers how to log smarter and debug faster.
Network Clustering and Triadic Closure: Revealing Relationship Patterns with Python
Learn how to measure network clustering and triadic closure in Python to identify tightly-knit groups and bridge nodes.
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How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming service much further still.
Why 52 Cards Is the Perfect Number for Poker—Mathematically
A traditional card deck happens to dodge a tricky poker paradox. Other poker variants aren’t so lucky
How to Self-Host n8n on Docker in 5 Simple Steps
This tutorial will guide you through the complete process of self-hosting n8n on Docker in just 5 simple steps, with detailed explanations and code samples, regardless of your technical background.
Pay As a Local
Pay As a Local How Airbnb rolled out 20+ locally relevant payment methods worldwide in just 14 months By: Gerum Haile, Bo Shi, Yujia Liu, Yanwei Bai, Bo Yuan, Rory MacQueen, Yixia Mao Across the more …
Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic’s Cowork brings Claude Code–style AI agents to the desktop, letting Claude access and manage local files and browse the web—boosting productivity while raising new security and trust risks.
Why Mexican Coffee Is Becoming More Popular in Texas
I took a trip to the heart of the country’s coffee-growing scene to learn more about the beans that turn into an easy-drinking brew.