What caused the large AWS outage?
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage
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How to make a Smith chart
Deriving the basic mathematical properties of the Smith chart from electrical engineering
Why In-Memory Computation Is So Important For Edge AI
Researchers focus on limiting data movement to reduce power and latency in edge devices.
Charting The Frontiers Of Photomask Technology And Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
Modeling, simulation, and digital twins enable EUV innovation.
Ancient Taoism Quietly Answers the Chaos of Modern Life | TheCollector
The timeless wisdom of Taoism provides enduring guidance for modern individuals seeking ways to live without stress, stay healthy, and achieve happiness.
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The vertical GaN transistor: Time for take-off - Compound Semiconductor News
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
User:Birdman86 - Wikimedia Commons
The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices | Quanta Magazine
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
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PoE basics and beyond: What every engineer should know
Here is a short primer that walks you through the basics of Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology.
iKlips S: Thumb-Sized Fingerprint SSD That Moves 1GB in 3 Seconds – Yanko Design
Sodium Batteries Are Coming
Batteries are an increasingly important technology to our civilization. If I could wave a magic wand and make one specific non-medical technology advance 10-20 years in a day, it would be battery technology. Batteries are used in our everyday devices, like phones and laptops…
Lithium is the best salt for battery chemistry because Li is the lightest salt on the periodic table (3 protons). Nothing can ever beat it for theoretical best specific energy (energy storage per mass). Sodium (Na) is right below it at 11 protons, so it’s an obvious choice for a possible Li…
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Life on Display: A Reading List on Museums
A reading list on how museums reflect culture.
How to Remove a Web Page from Google
The reasons for deindexing a page haven't much changed over the years, although the tools and tactics have evolved.
How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America
The Bowlin family knew they had a history of malformations in the brain. But they had no idea how far back it went.
Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve | CSS-Tricks
Looking at the CSS Masonry discussions and what they can teach us about the development of new CSS features. What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?
Qwen3-VL· Ollama Blog
Ollama now supports Alibaba's Qwen3-VL.
Abstract or die why ai enterprises cant afford rigid vector stacks
Pumpkin Maple Muffins
These muffins are just the right amount of sweet, lightly spiced and deeply orange, thanks to the addition of ground turmeric. Browning the butter beforehand may seem like a fussy step, but it provides a vaguely nutty, deeply caramelized flavor that makes for a superlative…
AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
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Verbalized Sampling (VS)
Generate 5 responses with their corresponding probabilities, sampled from the full distribution
A classified satellite network is emitting a mysterious signal : NPR
An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.
It's unclear what the satellite constellation is up to. Starlink, SpaceX's public satellite internet network, operates at much higher frequencies to enable the transmission of broadband data. Starshield, by contrast, is using a much lower frequency range that probably only allows for the…
How Sam’s Club became the ‘Netflix of shopping’
CEO Chris Nicholas aims to double sales at the Walmart unit with a focus on driving “disruptive value.”
The Quest to Resurrect a Texas Ghost Town
A journey to find a true ghost town reveals vanishing histories and locals working to bring them back to life
How to Fingerprint Websites With WhatWeb - A Practical, Hands-On Guide
Another one of our simple, hands-on pen-testing tutorials. This one teaches you to finger a website for status code, server info, CMS etc.
Imagine you’re curious about what powers a website: the CMS, web server, frameworks, analytics tools, or plugins behind it. WhatWeb can tell you all that right from the Linux command line. It’s like getting a quick peek under the hood of any site.
Backblaze, owner of 317,230 HDDs, says HDDs are “lasting longer”
Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates.
An Introduction to Multisets
Multisets are sets that allow repetition of elements. As such, multisets pave the way to a number of interesting possibilities of theoretical and applied nature. In the present work, after revising the main aspects of traditional sets, we introduce some of the main concepts and…
Multisets are sets that allow repetition of elements.
generalization to take into account vectors and matrices
Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization
Marcin Jakubowski is compiling a DIY set of society’s essential machines and making it open-source.
The Airlift Operation That Has Transformed Pet Adoption
Euthanasia in an under-equipped shelter used to be the fate of many dogs in Texas. Then chartered planes started bringing them North.
Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand.
The Nocturnals
While most people are fast asleep, some ultra-introverts are going about their lives, reveling in the quiet and solitude. They challenge a core assumption of psychology: that all humans need social connection.
65 Essential Children’s Books
Illustrated titles that teach kids to love literature
Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.
suggests that some people consider it a “win” to lean in to known falsehoods.
The strongest predictor of whether someone believed in COVID-19-related misinformation and risks related to the vaccine was whether they viewed COVID-19 prevention efforts in terms of symbolic strength and weakness. In other words, this group focused on whether an action would make them appear to…
Atomic-Scale Protein Filters
How aquaporin and potassium channels filter hundreds of millions of water molecules or ions each second, by positioning the correct amino acid in the perfect place.
MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor gets $11M to build more power-efficient AI chips - SiliconANGLE
The 'cool Camino': Why hikers are heading north
Every summer, Spain's iconic Camino bakes under extreme heat, but Norway's St Olav Ways offer pilgrims a quieter, cooler path to redemption.
Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic
Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, at least according to a statistic often cited in recent years. But what, exactly, comes to their minds — or those of any other believers around the world — when they imagine one?
Inside the Texas Crime Lab That’s Cracked Hundreds of Cold Cases
"The killing of Catherine Edwards, in Beaumont, long remained unsolved. Then came Othram, a start-up whose breakthroughs in DNA technology are helping identify bodies and solve decades-old murders and rapes."
Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering | Peter Steinberger
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
A Detailed Guide on httpx
Fast and practical guide to using the httpx tool for web reconnaissance, probing, filtering, and fuzzing with real-world examples.
Classical Thermodynamics and Economics – Yuxi on the Wired
How to think like a classical thermodynamic-economist, delivered with many illustrations and some sci-fi metaphors. Particular emphasis on what traditional pedagogy gets wrong. Prerequisites: multivariate calculus and mathematical maturity.
The essay contains: three laws of thermodynamics, entropy, Helmholtz and Gibbs free energy, nonextensive entropy, Caratheodory’s axiomatic thermodynamics, Vladimir Arnold’s contact-geometric thermodynamics, Paul Samuelson’s area-ratio thermodynamics, Le Chatelier’s principle, chemical equilibrium…
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Machine Learning Mastery
Making developers awesome at machine learning.
Two billion humans are doing something bizarre right now: sleeping | Aeon Essays
It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest
A Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs using LoRA
In this article, I'll take you through a step-by-step guide to fine-tuning LLMs with LoRA. A Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs using LoRA.
Interconnect Innovations In High Bandwidth Memory: Part 2
Bump technologies are being pushed beyond what was thought to be their physical and performance limits.
7 LLM Generation Parameters—What They Do and How to Tune Them?
Seven LLM generation parameters: max tokens, temperature, top-p, top-k, penalties, stop sequences, tuning guidance, defaults
stop sequences
presence penalties
Do You Know What I Know?
Joshua Rothman writes about common knowledge and the book “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .,” by Steven Pinker.
Where to begin? Brown bagging is one of those social practices that continues to feel senseless even after it’s been explained.
Common knowledge, he explains, isn’t just what we know but what we know is known. It’s different from “mutual knowledge,” which is held by multiple people but not openly.