Inside the Glitter Lab
"How the tiniest trace of red shimmer helped solve one of California’s most brutal crimes."
my_library
Can We Build a Pancreas? These Bioengineers Think We’re Almost There
How a father’s love, entrepreneurship and tech advances could lead to a working artificial pancreas
Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones
Ethereum’s consensus layer elliptic curve
Introduction to the BLS12-381 curve used in Ethereum's consensus layer. Focus on concrete calculations to make the curve more tangible.
Modern Linux Tools - Gamedev Guide
Programming notes for Unreal Engine, Houdini, Game Development, Math, & Graphics
Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toy play - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toy play
Pidgin vs. Creole: What’s the Difference? | TheCollector
Pidgin and creole languages share a common origin, arising from interactions between groups lacking a common language. However, they also differ in significant ways.
OpenAI’s Windows Play
OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI: the all-encompassing platform that controls both hardware supplier and software developers.
A Liver on Ice
How a liver goes from a brain-dead donor to a living recipient.
Note: liver transplants
Miller–Urey experiment - Wikipedia
Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference
Generate random points inside a sphere
Generating random points inside a sphere of any dimension.
The customary way to generate points on a sphere in n dimensions is to generate points from an n-dimensional normal (Gaussian) distribution and normalize by dividing by the length. And the way to generate samples from an n-dimensional normal is simply to generate a list of n one-dimensional normals…
Instead, the thing to do is to set
How Visual Cues Drive Sales: Practical Strategies for Retailers
Step into a flagship on Oxford Street or a pop-up in Manchester and the same truth applies: what shoppers see first shapes what they do next. Visual cues, whether bold colour blocking, angled shelving, or lighting accents, are the quiet persuaders of retail. They do more than…
Streaming services like Netflix rely on hero carousels and thumbnail previews to guide viewers quickly to featured titles. The platform does not overwhelm users with choices. It uses visual hierarchy to make decisions feel effortless. Social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok use colour…
The Psychology of Choice: How Much Freedom Do Customers Really Want?
Retailers have long assumed that the bigger the range, the happier the customer. Endless shelves, multiple variants, and every possible option should, in theory, increase satisfaction. Yet the evidence is more nuanced. Recent research shows that in some contexts, larger…
The most famous demonstration of the paradox of choice remains the “jam study” by psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper in 2000. When shoppers were presented with 24 flavours, many stopped to browse, but only 3% bought. Faced with six fewer browsed, but 30% purchased.
Buckle Up, There’s a New Gem Server in Town: gem.coop
New modern Ruby infrastructure coming online by the folks who were unceremoniously kicked out of Ruby Central.
The Competitive Advantage of SRAM PUF Technology
Discover SRAM PUF’s security benefits and how Synopsys combines it with OTP memory for advanced, secure key storage in embedded systems.
Explaining Gibrat's Law: Why Growth Creates Lognormal Distributions
Gibrat's Law explains why proportional growth processes create lognormal distributions across economics, biology, and social systems.
NASA's Voyager 1 Revealed A Stunning Discovery At The Edge Of Our Solar System - BGR
After decades of exploring, NASA's Voyager 1 hit the edge of the solar system and passed through a great "wall of fire," better known as the heliopause.
Designing with Psychology to Make Products Stick
Product design has a lot to do with psychology. It’s less about how people should behave and more about how they actually do. In this piece, we’re sharing some principles that can be useful to keep in mind. The names might sound quite technical at first, but once you see the…
Floating electrons on a sea of helium
Yes, it’s another potential qubit. But it’s also some very cool physics.
which involves lone electrons floating on top of liquid helium.
transmons
Indefinite Backpack Travel – Jeremy Maluf
The Cascade
Sharing CSS tips, tricks, and best practices
Community Detection in Networks: Finding Hidden Groups with Python
Discover hidden group structures in networks using Python's NetworkX library with Louvain and Girvan-Newman algorithms.
Start by loading the karate club network and examining its basic properties
spring layout algorithm positions nodes so that connected nodes are drawn closer together while disconnected nodes are pushed apart
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?
He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?
Scientists are searching for the secret in Doug Whitney’s biology that has protected him from dementia, hoping it could lead to ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s for many other people.
Beyond Von Neumann: Toward a unified deterministic architecture
The mechanism behind this is a time-resource matrix: A scheduling framework that orchestrates compute, memory and control resources across time. Much like a train timetable, scalar, vector and matrix operations move across a synchronized compute fabric without pipeline stalls or contention.
By predicting exactly when data will arrive — whether in 10 cycles or 200 — Deterministic Execution can slot dependent instructions into the right future cycle. This turns latency from a hazard into a schedulable event, keeping the execution units fully utilized and avoiding the massive thread and…
10 Best Boxed Wines
Thoughtful winemakers, motivated by environmental concerns, are turning to boxes.
Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With , , And CSS Media Queries — Smashing Magazine
SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he builds what he calls “adaptive SVGs” using ``, ``, and CSS Media Queries.
A Gentle Introduction to TypeScript for Python Programmers
Why every Python developer should give TypeScript a serious look (and how to get productive fast)
Weights & Biases: A KDnuggets Crash Course - KDnuggets
A hands-on guide to tracking experiments, versioning models, and keeping your ML projects reproducible with Weights & Biases.
Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine
The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.
Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
Plus prompt injection attacks against Sora 2 cameos and notes on DSPy and Litestream 0.5.0
Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)
Multiple-Choice Benchmarks, Verifiers, Leaderboards, and LLM Judges with Code Examples
four common ways of evaluating trained LLMs in practice: multiple choice, verifiers, leaderboards, and LLM judges
training loss, perplexity, and rewards, but they are usually used internally during model development.)
44 TRX Band Workouts: Boost Your Fitness Routine Today
Explore 44 TRX band workouts that might transform your fitness routine. From beginner to advanced, these moves may enhance strength and stability.
Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System
Announcing my latest open-source project.
China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks
Built for millions but left mostly empty, Ordos in Inner Mongolia is now a testbed where companies run fleets of robotrucks on its wide, quiet roads.
Inside the Interconnection Queue
Electric power in the US is provided by the electrical grid, a huge network of power plants, transmission lines, and transformers that moves electric power from where it's generated to where it's consumed.
What is Knot Theory? Solve These Puzzles to Find Out
Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way
10,000 Pushups And Other Silly Exercise Quests That Changed My Life
A few thoughts regarding my climb from 0 to 10,000 pushups in less than a year.
Characterizing and Optimizing Realistic Workloads on a Commercial...
Compute-in-SRAM architectures offer a promising approach to achieving higher performance and energy efficiency across a range of data-intensive applications. However, prior evaluations have largely relied on simulators or small prototypes, limiting the understanding of their…
A Coding Guide to Build an Autonomous Agentic AI for Time Series Forecasting with Darts and Hugging Face
A Coding Guide to Build an Autonomous Agentic AI for Time Series Forecasting with Darts and Hugging Face. A Step by step guide
Generate a Full EDA Report in One Line of Python Code
In this article, I'll explain how to automate 80% of the initial analysis and generate an EDA report with just one line of Python code.
Modern Font Stacks
System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.
LoRA Without Regret
How LoRA matches full training performance more broadly than expected
What a Lack of Social Contact Does to Your Brain
To many of us, the concept of solitary confinement may not sound all that bad: finally, a reprieve from the siege of social and professional requests. Finally, a chance to catch up on all the reading we've been meaning to do.
OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real
The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
How we spent under half a million dollars to build a 30 petabyte data storage cluster in downtown San Francisco
An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!
The "Critical Minerals" Crisis of 100 Years Ago
I review a fascinating dissertation on interwar metals trading and the "Age of Alloy Steel"
21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
Parties are a public service; here's how to throw them.