Gen Z Is Ignoring Phone Calls, and Their Reason for Doing So Is Actually Pretty Valid
The phone call used to mean someone needed you. Now it usually means spam, scams, or somebody demanding your attention without warning.
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TV Programming Quirks: Why So Many Shows Have 65 Episodes
How the calculus of ’80s television programming lives on into the present day—and why the Disney Channel always seems to cancel shows after 65 episodes.
How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme | Quanta Magazine
The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible.
AI IQ is here: a new site scores frontier AI models on the human IQ scale. The results are already dividing tech.
AI IQ ranks frontier AI models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on the human IQ scale, sparking debate over how artificial intelligence should be measured.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration…
Bash Best Practices: Writing Safer, Cleaner Scripts
Practical Bash best practices for writing safer and more predictable scripts, covering strict mode, quoting, error handling, and everyday patterns.
10 GitHub Repositories to Master Self-Hosting - KDnuggets
Learn how modern infrastructure works through self-hosting: containers, reverse proxies, monitoring, backups, networking, and systems operations.
Russian ship bound for N. Korea sank in ‘mysterious circumstances’, report finds
The 2024 sinking of the Ursa Major occurred just months after Pyongyang began assisting Moscow in its war against Ukraine, a CNN investigation found.
Lasers Are The Heartbeat Of The Optical AI Data Center
These III-V semiconductors are essential for super-high bandwidth optical interconnects.
Advanced Packaging: Intel's EMIB vs TSMC's CoWoS
Is Intel's EMIB better than TSMC's CoWoS for AI accelerators? A primer on both, an honest look at the trade-offs, and where it goes from here.
The EDA Primer: From RTL to Silicon
Laying the Groundwork of the Current Chip Design Paradigm
Open Artwork System Interchange Standard
file format used for specification of data structures for photomask production
More Americans Are Heading For Retirement In Europe. Will You Join Them?
Many European countries are welcoming American retirees, who are encouraged by affordable healthcare and in some cases, a lower cost of living. Here's what to know.
Understanding LLM Distillation Techniques - MarkTechPost
Learn how understanding LLM distillation techniques improves model training through innovative teacher-student approaches.
n this article, we will explore three major approaches used for training one LLM using another:
8 Advanced Claude Code Tips I've Discovered After Heavy Daily Use (Cost saving, Context, Custom Commands)
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7-in-1 Titanium Ruler That Draws Perfect Circles, Measures Angles, and Works as a Caliper. Yes, Really. - Yanko Design
https://youtu.be/MhqH6AyYn3I EDC and stationery have been moving closer together for years. Pens became precision objects. Rulers became desk jewelry. Pocket tools started borrowing the language of industrial design, while analog work tools picked up the portability and finish…
NVIDIA’s V100, An 8-Year Old GPU, Now Sells for $100 and Crushes Modern Consumer Cards in AI LLM Workloads
The 8-year-old NVIDIA V100 outperformed the RTX 3060 and RX 7800 XT in AI LLMs, achieving 130 Tokens/s at only $200 total cost with mods.
Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring?
If you’re ever out on a bike ride with me and you ask an innocent question like “hey, what’s with all the red plants on farms?” I must warn you that because of my masters degree in soil chemistry (that has laid fallow for over 30 years), I will go full Cliff Clavin on you…
In Wine Country, Sales Are Down and Fraud Is Rampant
The industry’s murky supply chain has long attracted scammers and con artists. In the words of one expert, “Wine and fraud go hand in hand.”
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Software engineers are, if not unique, then darn near unique in the ease with which we can create tools to improve our own professional lives; this however can …
The Grandmothers Who Become Mothers Again
Casey Cep on the book “Mawmaw,” by the photographer Anthony Wilson, about West Virginia women who, after a tragedy, care for their children’s children.
Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter
In fiction as well as in real life, counterfeiters have always been portrayed as master forgers and artists who reproduced banknotes with as...
The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12-million-token window - The New Stack
Subquadratic has launched a new AI architecture featuring a 12-million-token context window that outperforms GPT-5.5 on retrieval benchmarks.
FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind...
How to Get Your Dog to Come Back Every Time (Even Off-Leash)
Why do dogs ignore "come"? This guide reveals the simple shift that makes your voice the most rewarding sound on earth, even with distractions.
🚀Guide to HW Product Requirements Documents (PRDs): Step 2 of Product Making
How to define a physical product concept and get it ready for execution.
Congenitally Blind People Appear to be Protected from Schizophrenia
Sometimes clues to a disease come from the people who don't get it. A 1950 study of the psychological lives of blind people revealed that there are no cases of people who had been blind since birth developing schizophrenia. Double-checking through larger health records confirmed…
Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything?
We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth.
The vast majority of these bets are not on questions that might produce useful information. Roughly 90% of Kalshi’s trading volume (dollars exchanging hands between bettors) is from sports betting, making Kalshi effectively a sports gambling website with a small prediction market attached. I find…
I’ve found that the benefits of prediction markets fall into five different categories.
Build Your First Text-to-SQL App | Aman Kharwal
In this guide, I’ll show you how to build a Text-to-SQL app that takes your questions and uses AI to translate them.
Turn Any CSV into an AI Chatbot with Python | Aman Kharwal
In this article, I’ll show you how to turn any CSV file into an AI chatbot using Python. Turn Any CSV into an AI Chatbot with Python.
An Update on the Timing Industry
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How the Classic American Game of Twister Went From Risqué to Record-Breaking
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Sixty years ago, Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor played Twister on the “Tonight Show,” and the public took it as permission to buy the controversial game
Tech Industry Averages Just 5% GPU Utilization, Report Finds - Dataconomy
A report from Cast AI reveals that average GPU utilization in the tech industry is only 5%, indicating widespread inefficiency
Anthropic introduces "dreaming," a system that lets AI agents learn from their own mistakes
Anthropic has launched “dreaming” for AI agents, giving Claude new self-improving tools designed to boost enterprise automation, reliability, and scale.
7 Everyday Distributions Explained Simply
This article is a quick, everyday tour of seven distributions you'll actually recognize once you know what to look for. No heavy math. No gatekeeping.
The "Everything's Equally Likely" Pattern
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5 JavaScript SEO lessons from top ecommerce sites
See how Chewy, Harrods, Under Armour, and more brands handle rendering, navigation, structured data, and scripts without hurting SEO.
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
SFTP Cheatsheet
Quick reference for the Linux sftp client, covering login, navigation, transfers, and remote file management over SSH
fdisk Cheatsheet
Quick reference for fdisk commands: list disks, create partition tables, add partitions, change partition types, write changes, and quit safely
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Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped (and the One Pattern That Does Not)
Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.
Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know
Josh Hart is more than a glue guy. He’s an example of ‘the street sweeper’ mentality
Hart remains an example of the street sweeper mindset. He does not need the ball to make an impact, and he understands who he is.
“If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.”
AEP sees contracted capacity surge to 63GW, 90% tied to data centers
9GW increase on previous quarter, raises capital plan to $78bn
Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof.
Miami startup Subquadratic says its SubQ model could make AI 1,000 times more efficient and handle 12 million tokens, but researchers remain divided over whether the breakthrough is real.
The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared
The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it?
Why Gradient Descent Zigzags and How Momentum Fixes It - MarkTechPost
How momentum optimizes gradient descent by dampening oscillations and accelerating convergence on complex, anisotropic neural network loss surfaces
How to Use LlamaIndex to Build RAG Apps | Aman Kharwal
Learning to use LlamaIndex for RAG apps isn’t just about memorizing APIs. It’s about understanding how data moves through the system.