Henry Disston (1819-1878)
Some more on a Philadelphia success story and institution.
my_library / Reviewed
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
Beyond Conventional Ring Oscillators: Purpose-Built Process Detectors For Deeper Silicon Insight
How design-aware monitor analytics connects production measurements with device behavior and pre-silicon expectations.
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/japan-sewer-day-manhole-cover-sale/
Why it helps to see impatience as an emotion, not a trait | Psyche Notes to Self
Watching Penelope’s heroic wait in The Odyssey made me lament my impatience. But maybe I’ve been thinking about it wrong
T-Mobile rips into Starlink's mobile 'threat'
https://searchengineland.com/google-top-ranking-factors-survey-131-seo-professionals-487723
Spotify Just Hit 300 Million Subscribers. Here’s What We’ve Learned.
Gustav Gyllenhammar, Spotify’s Senior Vice President, Markets & Subscriptions, reflects on the journey.
I Haven't Lost a Customer Service Fight in Seven Months
How consumer claims became the highest-ROI thing I do with AI agents, from a $10 mac-and-cheese coupon to a $6,800 IRS reversal.
What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks @ tautology.town
tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.
Casablanca: How an Unproduced Play Marched Into Movie History | TheCollector
Of all of Hollywood’s beloved classic films, the Warner Bros. studio’s heart-rending wartime hit Casablanca might rank first in the hearts and minds of fans.
Vanilla-Thyme Crème Anglaise It... - SAVEUR Magazine
Vanilla-Thyme Crème Anglaise It doesn’t get more decadent than this sweet, custardy vanilla-thyme crème anglaise recipe, which pairs perfectly with desserts of all kinds. Read more below. ⬇️
David Marlow (@ikiquest)
This picture speaks volumes…
How to be a word detective | Psyche Guides
Etymology unravels the mysteries of language and the hidden webs that link people across the world. Here’s how to dive in
You can now spend the night 80 feet up in a West Virginia fire tower - West Virginia Explorer
An 80-foot fire lookout in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest has opened for overnight stays starting at $100.
CUDA from First Principles
Understanding Threads, Warps, Streaming Multiprocessors, and the Complete Kernel Execution Pipeline
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
Why We Can’t Get Enough Juicy Art Heist Stories
The books and movies—Ocean's 8, The Mastermind, Topkapi, How to Steal a Million, Inside, Artifact—all offer mixed messages.
This Bottle of Dijon Mustard from Costco is Crazy Hot. A Months-Long Investigation Rrevealed the Surprising Reason Why. - Longreads
"The search for an answer took us to a mustard dynasty in France, a Hamilton mustard mill and Palliser’s Triangle."
Powering High Precision Lasers
Today, no one can imagine life without the vast number of laser applications, ranging from milliwatt-class lasers to high-power processing.
Bits & Boxes: Where Intelligent Software Meets Physical Fulfillment: The Orchestration Gap
People think his team got robbed at Michigan. His response was a ‘masterclass’
WMU coach Lance Taylor could have joined the chorus of angry responses to a controversial loss at Michigan, but he chose a different path.
https://stratechery.com/2026/write-things-down/
A Pricing Model That Defies Logic, Confuses Economists, and Can Really Work
“Pay-what-you-want” isn’t just for museums and churches.
Smart Outlier Detection
Just because a chip is deemed good doesn't mean it will work as expected.
How the Japanese Practice of "Forest Bathing"—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease
When the U.S. media began reporting on the phenomenon of “forest bathing” as a therapy for mental and physical health, the online commentariat—as it will—mocked the concept relentlessly as yet another pretentious, bourgeois repackaging of something thoroughly mundane.
The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — examples
The Kitchen a Cook Would Build
no designer needed
Fourteen Thousand Omelettes
It takes ten years to make a chef, a man told me once. it took me two just to learn how to make an omelette.
TPU Inference Externalization Full Steam Ahead - InferenceX
InferenceX, Up to 50% Better Performance per Dollar, Rapid Externalization of TPU stack, Growing Customer Base, Ironwood, TPUv8i, Reducing CUDA Moat
Methods for random gradients
An overview of techniques I’ve used to generate random gradient images.
GPT-6 Astra and the Fourth Exponential
AI computer tool use is a big deal.
Ngram error rate
An example illustrating the large amount of error in Ngram data.
Why music is a powerful tool to quiet stress in the brain
Music doesn’t just mask stress, it guides our brain back to a calm state
Possible Production Chokepoint In Large Titanium Castings Vital To U.S. Defense Industry In Oregon
The notion that the U.S.'s large titanium castings capability is concentrated in one 70-mile corridor in Oregon is a production risk scarier than the Bigfoot himself
Field Guide to What Gold Is Actually Doing Part I
Two tribes dominate every conversation about gold, and both lose money reliably.
How to Outlive Your Bucket List
When you’re young, making a bucket list – things you want to do before you die -- feels like you’re choosing prizes that will arrive in the mail later. I’ll take fl...
The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes • wild man life
The forgotten castles of the Garamantes lie buried beneath the Libyan Desert, the ruins of a civilisation that built cities, traded with Rome, and raised pyramids in the Sahara.
Solar Superstorm Knocked US GPS Off By Up To 10 Meters, Study Finds - Dataconomy
Researchers in the United States said a solar superstorm on Nov. 11, 2025 caused coast-to-coast disruption across the United States,
Markdown in Ruby on Rails with RedCarpet
What is Markdown
History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight - Isar Aerospace
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
Elder Braz da Silva
2.5K likes, 215 comments. "hay baling fun"
China's AI Chip Landscape: A Complete Map of Who's Building What
From Huawei's Ascend to a wave of GPU startups — thirteen companies racing to replace Nvidia
The Weirdly Simple Habit That Gives You 'Instant Charisma'
A psychotherapist says noticing and naming other people’s strengths can make you seem warmer, more memorable, and more charismatic.
Bayesian textbook list
Exactly what the title says.
A no bullshit guide to LLMs
A talk from useR! 2025
9 Laws Every Manager Should Know (And Most Break Daily)
The unwritten rules of management... finally written down.
YosysHQ Yosys documentation
Things I Won't Work With: Straight Dimethyl Zinc
Unlimited Power? The Sodium Gambit
Whatever happened to the fast breeder reactor...