The lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.
Instead, he volunteered to take the place of a man randomly selected to be starved to death in retribution for another prisoner’s escape. After several weeks without food, he was still clinging to life and leading other prisoners in prayer. The impatient guards finished him off by lethal injection…
When you can see moral beauty in others, you will find goodness in yourself as well.
By studying the millennia-old arms race between soil-dwelling microbes, scientists can pre-empt antibiotic resistance before it emerges in people.
I spent decades chasing down the Eastern European classic that defined my family's celebrations. A chance encounter led me to the source.
New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, has quietly become a blue refuge in the MAGA red West for Americans who are fleeing extreme conservative strongholds.
JupyterLab 4.4 has been released! This new minor release of JupyterLab includes 28 new features and enhancements, 76 bug fixes, 63 maintenance tasks and 34 documentation improvements. There were 56…
A portable containment device that can be dropped on a truck.
If you don’t mind massive ground antennas and fried birds, that is
These common Python functions seem simple… until they aren’t. Avoid subtle bugs by learning how to use them the right way.
The First Crusade was a pivotal event with lasting consequences on the political and religious relations of the medieval world.
Thermodynamic computing isn't just a rebrand of probabilistic computing
Normal Computing’s prototype chip, which they termed the stochastic processing unit (SPU), consists of eight capacitor-inductor resonators and random noise generators. Each resonator is connected to each other resonator via a tunable coupler. The resonators are initialized with randomly generated…
Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.
View recent discussion. Abstract: The rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs) has unveiled critical limitations in current hardware architectures, including constraints in memory capacity, computational efficiency, and interconnection bandwidth. DeepSeek-V3, trained on…
Note: The paper “Insights into DeepSeek-V3: Scaling Challenges and Reflections on Hardware for AI Architectures” presents a comprehensive analysis of the DeepSeek-V3/R1 model architecture and its AI infrastructure. It highlights key innovations aimed at addressing the critical limitations in current hardware architectures revealed by the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs). Architectural…
Steven Soderbergh was one of the earliest filmmakers to break out in what's now called the 'Indiewood' movement of the nineteen-nineties. He was early enough, in fact, to have done so in the eighties, with the Palme d'Or-winning Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
Inspired by my previous [llm-video-frames](https://github.com/simonw/llm-video-frames) plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so …
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An adaptive metal fill extraction technique dynamically adjusts the level of detail based on the design context, such as the density of...
CXL 3.1 and PCIe 6.2 are transforming AI with improved data transfer and memory pooling.
Learn to transform geographic data into actionable insights using GeoPandas. From basic maps to finding Chicago's health deserts — complete tutorial inside.
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Sports psychologists work with athletes to get their best performance on the field or court, but these tools are ones anyone can try.
Open-source examples and guides for building with the OpenAI API. Browse a collection of snippets, advanced techniques and walkthroughs. Share your own examples and guides.
GPT-4.1 is trained to follow instructions more closely and more literally than its predecessors
we recommend including three key types of reminders in all agent prompts
Platform created by the community to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.
How do you spot the wrong customer before they burn your roadmap? First Round Partner Meka Asonye digs into how now-massively successful startups cracked the code.
Many features of UCIe 2.0 seen as “heavy” are optional, causing confusion.
The spec is defined with so many variants that you can tailor it to your exact needs. It’s applicable for everything from automotive to high-performance compute to AI to mil/aero because it has so many flavors. That’s also a curse to an IP provider. How do you support all those flavors?”
the latter predominates, since virtually all projects underway are internal projects, with all chiplets being internally created and applied. Interoperability with externally sourced chiplets is therefore not a concern
Confused by AI agent frameworks? This article makes sense of A2A and MCP.
A2A is like a network cable linking multiple agents so they can collaborate.
MCP is like a universal connector (or “USB-C port”) between an agent and external tools
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As retailers slow down orders for foreign goods because of tariffs, companies that recirculate overstocked or returned items may help fill the gap.
The death of Parton’s husband, in March, called rare attention to a steadfast union that the fame-friendly country star had kept private for decades.
People with Williams Syndrome treat strangers as their new best friends. Now the condition is giving clues to our evolutionary past – and what makes us human.
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ZJIT has been merged into upstream Ruby. Learn about its architecture!
May 9, 2025 – “The Guide is either the train hopper’s Bible or an outdated relic, a must-have or a crutch, depending on whom you ask.”
The history, physics, and practical trade-offs behind a number every RF engineer knows.
One of the fundamental properties of a coaxial cable is its characteristic impedance often represented by Z0. It is the value of resistance seen when looking into a coaxial cable of infinite length. The value of Z0 is solely determined by the physical construction of the cable.
air-filled (εr=1),
When brilliant work leads to breakdowns
On Youtube, jazz enthusiast Jonathan Holmes declares: 'I can guarantee this is the cleanest sounding Louis Armstrong record you'll ever hear! With the original transfer supplied by Nick Dellow, here is the mother record which was shipped by Okeh to Germany for their Odeon…
Best known for basketball success under John Calipari 30 years ago, UMass has won 26 football games in 13 years in the FBS. Can it change?
Canadian photographer Carly Hughes-Horvath takes on a raw and sensual tour of a world where cameras are usually forbidden.
Six years after 41 people died aboard a Sukhoi Superjet on a Moscow runway, the full story of that horrible day can finally be told.
How to turn your time estimates into reliable predictions — and communicate them.
In more than thirty years as a writer, editor, and publisher, I have, to my best reckoning, introduced, abridged, issued or reissued, and read nearly every major work of inspirational literature produced or translated into English.
In today's world, having reliable at-home workout options isn't just convenient; it's practically essential.
The startup emerged from stealth with a goal of extending the range of EVs while also eliminating fossil fuels from home heating.
Micro-states like Saint Kitts and Nevis now earn more from selling passports than all other exports combined. While tech utopians dream of digital republics, the growing marketplace for citizenship is already virtualizing sovereignty from within.
As YouTube has risen over the past 20 years to the streaming giant it is today, the platform has changed the way people watch TV.
An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques.
Can't find a human to practice a language with? I've been there. Here's why most of my interaction with ChatGPT is in other languages.
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.