Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix)

"Screenshots won't get you in", but Chrome DevTools will.

Behold the $150,000 Dog

Part cuddly. Part vicious. All status symbol.

OranLooney.com

Renew my Passport Online

This page includes information about our online passport renewal system, and instructions to complete your application.

The Evolution of Trust

an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other

Radios, how do they work?

A brief introduction to antennas, superheterodyne receivers, and signal modulation schemes.

What happens if you shoot down a delivery drone?

As deep-pocketed companies like Amazon, Google and Walmart invest in and experiment with drone delivery, a phenomenon reflective of this modern era has

Eight Books That Will Change Your Perspective

One of the joys of reading is encountering someone else’s awakening on the page.

Beyond GPUs: Innatera and the quiet uprising in AI hardware

The brain-inspired architecture gives neuromorphic systems distinct advantages, particularly for edge computing applications in consumer devices and industrial IoT.

How the Solar System led planet-hunters astray

The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.

How to Catch a Lab Leak

"Hey boss, I've just managed to kill a whole bunch of people here"

AI’s $600B Question

The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. As we continue to follow the GPUs, navigating what comes next will be essential.

Physics — Susan Rigetti

Spanish Translation - S1 EP1 - Space Ghost Coast to Coast

After declaring his fondness for Mexican food, Space Ghost asks diet guru Susan Powter what super powers help "stop the insanity." Comedian Kevin Meaney discusses the virtues of wearing tight pants and the Bee Gees stop by for a short, bizarre visit.

Shipt’s Pay Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back - IEEE Spectru

When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer

The alchemy of air : a Jewish genius, a doomed tycoon, and the scientific d

2024 Top Streaming Stats

We live in world where almost all the entertainment we consume is online, and these streaming stats prove it.

Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles

People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.

384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chines

Many website admins, it seems, have yet to get memo to remove Polyfill[.]io links.

Crawlers And Agents And Bots, Oh My: Time To Clarify Robots.txt

Perplexity is an up-and-coming AI company that has broad ambition to compete with Google in the search market by providing answers to user queries with AI as its core technology. They’ve been…

Building an LLM Router for High-Quality and Cost-Effective Responses

Anyscale is the leading AI application platform. With Anyscale, developers can build, run and scale AI applications instantly.

A cool guide to the subregions of Oceania : r/coolguides

154 votes, 19 comments. 5.5M subscribers in the coolguides community. Picture based reference guides for anything and everything. If it seems like…

What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days

What is a honeypot?A honeypot detects and records attacks when an attacker tries to break into a system. The honeypot we will discuss here is an SSH honeypot. Environment12OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_6

Why toggle switches suck (and what to do instead)

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Patti Hamilton: Will you still feed me when I'm 64? (Opinion)

Aging has been on my mind lately following the 100 year birthday celebration our family held for Aunt Jo, my late dad’s younger sibling by one year. Our dad died

A Roaringish phrase search algorithm

How phrase search works in search array by intersecting roaring-like numpy arrays.

HH70, the world’s first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves f

ZIRP explains the world

A Margins' theory of everything

Fabricated Knowledge Q2 2024 Quarterly Review

Here's everything that happened this quarter, and some thoughts and ideas.

LVMH: Guardians of Tradition, Engineers of Desirability

From royal connections to succession plans, explore LVMH's journey in mastering desirability and achieving global dominance in the luxury industry.

The Art Of Annoyance

When it comes down to it, it’s best to think of advertising as a coordinated, decades-long campaign to annoy the heck out of you. And it works pretty well.

Layer 8: A Semantic Networking Layer for the Age of AI

Layer 8 and existing application delivery infrastructure will pave the way for more intelligent, context-aware networks that adapt to AI-driven applications.

Building the Bell System

If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top.

From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts - imbue

We would like to thank Voltage Park, Dell, H5, and NVIDIA for their invaluable partnership and help with setting up our cluster. A special…

The Queen's Doll's House

On the freaky model world of the Dollomites; plus—more lucid dreaming and a roundup of recent favorites.

AMD’s Instinct MI300X AI Throughput Performance & Latency Improved By 7x Wi

Nscale has tested AMD's flagship Instinct MI300X AI accelerator utilizing the GEMM tuning framework, achieving 7x faster performance.

Run Charts - Improvement | theCompleteMedic

Create your first run chart and start interpreting your data using just four rules. Your go-to QI resource.

Is the mobile phone starting to die?

The smartphone market can no longer grow and AI is promising to revolutionize our habits. Experts say that voice commands and virtual assistants will gain prominence over screens. For the moment, new devices such as glasses, buttons or watches will coexist with the cellphone

Inside a 1 dollar radar motion sensor

Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?

“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”

Hysteresis Loss: Estimation, Modeling, and the Steinmetz Equation

The hysteresis effect is one of the main sources of loss in ferromagnetic materials. In this article, we learn to calculate the hysteresis loss of a magnetic core and work through some example problems.

Firefly is building fast and breaking things on path to a reusable rocket

“For our base design, we’re designing around return to launch site propulsive landing.”…

StarCoder2-15B: A Powerful LLM for Code Generation, Summarization, and Docu

Experience the leading models to build enterprise generative AI apps now.

A Comprehensive Overview of Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

Prompt engineering is crucial to leveraging ChatGPT's capabilities, enabling users to elicit relevant, accurate, high-quality responses from the model. As language models like ChatGPT become more sophisticated, mastering the art of crafting effective prompts has become…

ChatGPT Prompt for an Evidence-Based Narrative | by Brad Porter | Jun, 2024

Amazon trained me to write evidence-based narratives. I love the format. It’s a clear and compelling way to present information to drive…

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer

Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures more reliable

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

There is such a thing as a free lunch

Return to the Rails Way: Installing Ruby on Rails in 2024

Do a 'full fat install' of Ruby on Rails and see what's changed since its heyday of Web 2.0 — and how it has inspired modern frameworks.

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

From Shirley Jackson's ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’, of course.

Brutal birth

Indonesia’s emergence was both more violent and more pioneering than commonly imagined