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In Nepal, Sacred Cattle Collide with Urban Realities – SAPIENS
Following the Life of an Abandoned Bull in Nepal
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts?
For reasons I can’t fully explain, people’s failure to return their carts bothers me more than it probably should. But then I realized I can do something about it.
Why do so many people think the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia?
Comparing Memory Systems for LLM Agents: Vector, Graph, and Event Logs
Learn how different memory systems affect multi-agent planning. Comparing Memory Systems for LLM Agents highlights key performance metrics.
Plain Vector RAG
sublinear scaling
Inside Cursor
Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn
How to Find Frequent Itemsets with the Apriori Algorithm in Python
Learn how to use Python's Apriori algorithm to find frequent itemsets in transaction data automatically.
Apriori uses a simple strategy: if a set of items appears rarely, any larger set containing those items will be even rarer. This allows the algorithm to skip large portions of the search space.
36 Hours on Kauai
With its pristine jungles and small towns, this Hawaiian island retains the unmanicured charm of Old Polynesia with few modern intrusions.
What exactly does word2vec learn?
The BAIR Blog
Strap Rail
The early history of the United States runs along with the first years of the railroad.
Polymath Investor (@polymathinvestor)
Sharing this quick list on How To Analyze An Income Statement. I think it covers the basics pretty well.
AddText — Captions for your photos, quick and easy
Easy-to-use tool for adding text and captions to your photos. Create memes, posters, photo captions and much more!
How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick | Quanta Magazine
A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Larissa MacFarquhar writes about the recent research into the neurodiverse syndromes known as aphantasia and hyperphantasia, their effects on our experience of trauma and memory, and the sense of identity that has grown up around them.
Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire
blindsight
The Blue Book Burglar
The 'Social Register' was a who’s who of America’s rich and powerful—the heirs of robber barons, scions of political dynasties, and descendants of 'Mayflower' passengers. It was also the perfect hit list for the country’s hardest-working art thief.
Concrete’s Greatest Weakness
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The Perils of Algorithmic Pricing
Hotels and landlords can mitigate legal risks by choosing decentralized revenue management systems that use public data.
How Drone Swarms Actually Work and What Industries Should Care
True drone swarms can cut costs and boost efficiency in agriculture, logistics and humanitarian demining, but software remains a hurdle.
Comparing the Top 7 Large Language Models LLMs/Systems for Coding in 2025
Compare the top 7 large language models and systems for coding in 2025. Discover which ones excel for software engineering tasks.
OpenAI GPT-5 / GPT-5-Codex Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet / Claude 4.x Sonnet with Claude Code Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct DeepSeek-V2.5-1210 (with DeepSeek-V3 as the successor) Alibaba Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Mistral Codestral 25.01
Core coding quality: HumanEval, MBPP / MBPP EvalPlus, code generation and repair quality on standard Python tasks. Repo and bug-fix performance: SWE-bench Verified (real GitHub issues), Aider Polyglot (whole-file edits), RepoBench, LiveCodeBench. Context and long-context behavior: Documented…
How Marlon Brando Changed Acting: Inside a Scene from On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando has now been gone for more than two decades, and so thoroughgoing was his impact on the art of film acting that younger generations of movie-lovers may have trouble pinning down what, exactly, he did so differently on screen.
In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
How I Use Every Claude Code Feature
A brain dump of all the ways I've been using Claude Code.
The 5 Most Significant Non-Abrahamic World Religions and Philosophies | TheCollector
Read on and discover five non-Abrahamic World Religions to better understand yourself and the world you live in.
commish app design
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges
Active Listening: Swiss Army Knife of Communication (with Examples)
Master the ultimate communication skill, useful in almost any scenario.
What is a YAML file? A guide from basics to practical use
YAML is a data serialization format used for configuration files and more. This article explains YAML fundamentals and practical applications in Kubernetes and other environments.
The Warehouse Worker Who Became a Philosopher
Eleven years ago, the podcast host Stephen West was stocking groceries.
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit on Rubber Chickens
Be Generous & Unique - Colossus
Kevin Kelly co-founded Wired magazine and is the author of the book Excellent Advice for Living. We cover his concept of the Technium, why rituals are an underappreciated part of society and family life, and the importance of developing your authentic self over a lifetime.
China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 - Yale E360
uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade - Blog - Dr. Emily L. Hunt
Released in 2024, uv is hands-down the best tool for managing Python installations and dependencies. Here's why.
The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
They’re no longer terrible—in fact, they’re often the draw.
Building Transformer Models from Scratch with PyTorch (10-day Mini-Course)
You've likely used ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok, which demonstrate how large language models can exhibit human-like intelligence. While creating a clone of these large language models at home is unrealistic and unnecessary, understanding how they work helps demystify their…
The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design
this section, I’ll focus on two key architectural techniques introduced in DeepSeek V3 that improved its computational efficiency and distinguish it from many other LLMs:
Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA)
Helion gives behind-the-scenes tour of secretive fusion prototype
In the city of Everett, inside a vault built with thick concrete blocks is Polaris, a machine that could change the world.
5 Effect Size Measures You’ll Actually Use
Learn to calculate and interpret five essential effect size measures with Python examples and clear guidance.
Cohen’s d — the standardized difference between two group means r (correlation coefficient) — the strength of a relationship between variables Odds ratio — how much more likely an outcome is in one group than another η² (eta squared) — how much of the total variance your variable explains Cliff’s…
15 English Words With Interesting Origins | TheCollector
From Greek constellations to Gaelic spirits, these 15 English word origins reveal how a Germanic language evolved into a global vocabulary.
The Strange History of Why North Is Always Up | TheCollector
South-up maps are challenging traditional views of the Earth—and the political and cultural beliefs that go with them.
Full details of how blockchain blocks are chained together
How blocks in the Bitcoin blockchain are chained together. Looking at an example at the the byte level to get the real story, past the oversimplifications.
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for the delay!” and I mean it. I use “This reminded me of something I once read—” as…
Marktechpost/AI-Tutorial-Codes-Included: Codes/Notebooks for AI Projects
Codes/Notebooks for AI Projects. Contribute to Marktechpost/AI-Tutorial-Codes-Included development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Outpost - New River Gorge
Newly renovated campground situated less than a ¾ of a mile hike from the New River Gorge Bridge. The Outpost offers a variety of lodging options from newly renovated rustic cabins, recently paved RV camper hookup sites, updated tent platforms, field camping spaces and a…
GenAI Image Editing Showdown
Useful collection of examples by Shaun Pedicini who tested Seedream 4, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Qwen-Image-Edit, FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], FLUX.1 Kontext [max], OmniGen2, and OpenAI gpt-image-1 across 12 image editing prompts. …
5 Common LLM Parameters Explained with Examples
Learn the 5 common LLM parameters explained with examples to optimize your model's performance and generate desired results.
max_completion_tokens, temperature, top_p, presence_penalty, and frequency_penalty
Max Tokens is the maximum number of tokens the model can generate during a run
The stunning Canadian island you can see but not touch
Hidden deep in the Rockies and only visible by boat, Spirit Island is one of Canada's most iconic places – and a sacred site for those who have sealed it off from the world.
Enormous: The Gorge Story (2019) - IMDb
1h 5m
The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
A detailed walkthrough of the Linux boot process from power button to kernel initialization
Right after reset the CPU jumps to a special address called the reset vector at 0xFFFFFFF0
it finds a disk whose very first 512‑byte sector ends with the marker bytes 0x55 and 0xAA, it treats that device as bootable. BIOS copies that sector to memory at 0x7C00 and jumps there.
Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code
Dithering is still a surprisingly applicable technique, not just for practical reasons (such as preparing a full-color image for output on a non-color printer), but for artistic reasons as well. Dithering also has applications in web design, where it is a useful technique for…
Dithering Sticky notes:Adding white noise to reduce errors from spurious signals
dithering is fundamentally about error diffusion.
The art of reading minds
Have you ever wanted to read someone's mind? Mentalist Oz Pearlman is billed as one of the world's greatest mind readers ... and yet, he says he doesn't have any special powers. In this spectacular talk meets psychic-inspired magic show, he demonstrates his skills on a live…