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Where EV batteries go to die – and be reborn
Batteries for electric vehicles are notoriously difficult to recycle, but growing demand for the rare metals they contain is leading to innovative new ways of retrieving them.
Bonobos May Combine Words In Ways Previously Thought Unique To Humans - Slashdot
A new study shows bonobos can combine vocal calls in ways that mirror human language, producing phrases with meanings beyond the sum of individual sounds. "Human language is not as unique as we thought," said Dr Melissa Berthet, the first author of the research from the…
Acids to Ashes: The crash of Pan Am flight 160 - Admiral Cloudberg - Medium
On the 3rd of November 1973, the crew of a Pan Am cargo plane lined up to land at Boston’s Logan International Airport, struggling desperately to reach the runway as a fire raged in the cargo deck…
From the JupyterNotebooks community on Reddit: Jupyter MCP.: AI to control Jupyter Notebooks
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Water level monitors
📈Product Market Fit for Physical Products
I asked an 🍎 Apple Vision Pro designer turned solopreneur how he sells HW.
Beyond RAG: How Articul8’s supply chain models achieve 92% accuracy where general AI fails
Articul8's specialized models tackle complex industrial sequences where timing and order matter, challenging the one-size-fits-all approach to enterprise AI.
How to Make an Instant Connection With Anyone
A good first impression can make or break an opportunity or connection. Here's how to make an instant connection with anyone.
“The key to making a lasting first impression isn’t impressing—it’s making the other person feel valued,”
The Origins of Adjuvants
More than a century after the invention of vaccines, a veterinarian stumbled across a technique to boost their efficacy in an unlikely way — by observing wounded horses.
SpinLaunch—yes, the centrifuge rocket company—is making a hard pivot to satellites
“Launch has generally been more of a cost center than a profit center.”…
How Many Rogue Planets Are in the Milky Way?
According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history
Rails 8’s Propshaft, A Sprockets’ quiet replacement?
With the release of Rails 8, asset management in Rails got faster and simpler with the new asset pipeline, Propshaft, which is not only simpler but also more aligned with modern Rails development needs compared to its predecessor, Sprockets.
Huawei patents ‘ternary logic’ to develop energy-efficient AI chips
Huawei patented a new technology called "ternary logic" that can develop energy-efficient AI chips. The new patent confirms the company's effo
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France
Travel through France’s greatest hits—ancient abbeys, royal palaces, cave art, and wine-soaked valleys—in this curated list of ten jaw-dropping UNESCO treasures.
What is convex optimization? - Dataconomy
Convex optimization is a specialized area of optimization focusing on problems where the objective function is convex and exhibits a unique global minimum.
Burlap & Barrel on how Trump’s tariffs will impact the spice business - Fast Company
Burlap & Barrel built a business on foreign spices. Trump’s tariffs are about to hit its bottom line.
What is a Servo Motor and How it Works | Jameco
What is a servo motor? How does a servo motor work? Get the right answers to these and more questions related to servo motors at our Jameco Electronics blog.
lwthiker/curl-impersonate: curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox
curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox - lwthiker/curl-impersonate
Introduction to MCP: The Ultimate Guide to Model Context Protocol for AI Assistants
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
300 aspects of each call were cataloged, letting researchers estimate meaning.
Xenolinguistics—the Study of Alien Languages—Helps to Reveal Why All Beings Communicate
Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself
Big Fish
The luxury tuna industry is killing the Mediterranean.
LLM Benchmarking: Fundamental Concepts | NVIDIA Technical Blog
The past few years have witnessed the rise in popularity of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), as part of a broad AI revolution.
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Complex Haptics Deliver a Pinch, a Stretch, or a Tap
Electromagnetism takes touch feedback beyond simple vibrations
How to Vectorize in Python (With Example)
In this article, we will explore different vectorized operations with examples.
Psychology’s Groupthink Helps Explain the Signal Chat Fiasco
At the heart of the Trump administration’s Signal scandal lies the familiar psychological pitfall of groupthink
Are Product Images Vital for Brick-and-Mortar Stores?
Regarding marketing and selling products to consumers, product imagery is unquestionably one of the most important selling points. When considering the prevalence and dominance of e-commerce and digital shopping channels, traditional brick-and-mortar retail stores may question…
A Comprehensive Guide to LLM Routing: Tools and Frameworks
Deploying LLMs presents challenges, particularly in optimizing efficiency, managing computational costs, and ensuring high-quality performance. LLM routing has emerged as a strategic solution to these challenges, enabling intelligent task allocation to the most suitable models…
What is METEOR score? - Dataconomy
METEOR Score is a metric used to evaluate the quality of machine translation based on precision, recall, word alignment, and linguistic flexibility.
How SSL Misconfigurations Impact Your Attack Surface
53.5% of websites have weak SSL setups—leaving attack surfaces exposed and increasing breach risk.
AI xPUs to be Cooled by HBM
High-end xPUs (GPUs, TPUs, and other AI processors) use HBM memories to get the absolute highest memory bandwidth for training the Large Language Models (LLMs) used in today's generative AI systems. These processors, used in the thousands by hyperscale datacenters, can consume a…
Libgen (similar to ArXiV)
Library Genesis is a scientific community targeting collection of books on natural science disciplines and engineering.
The Concise Guide to Poisson Distribution
The Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the likelihood of a specific number of events occurring within a fixed time or space interval.
Summaries & Notes From Books I've Read
Detailed notes, summaries, and lessons I've learned from the books I've read. Includes topics like psychology, leadership, productivity and marketing.
On War, by General Carl von Clausewitz
How to Use Git and Git Bash Locally: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Git is a distributed version control system that helps you track changes in your code, collaborate with others, and maintain a history of your project. Git Bash is a terminal application for Windows that provides a Unix-like command-line experience for using Git…
Johannes Enevoldsen - Excitable cells
A demonstration of how reentry tachyarrhythmias can develop in a system of excitable cells.
Go Optimization Guide
Patterns and Techniques for Writing High-Performance Applications with Go
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of ...
ICEBREAKERS, via The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker
“Icebreaker of the Week” is a recurring feature of the newsletter The Art of Noticing (robwalker.substack.com). Some are icebreakers I made up or experienced or found somewhere; many are submitted by TAoN readers. After many requests, I am collecting & sharing all the…
Talking To Your Mailserver Is Not as Hard as You Think!
The technology behind E-Mails (or ‘emails‘) always interested me. This is because in some sense it was way ahead of its time by being a decentralized communication system. Unlike WhatsApp, Telegram or other messenger services, where the service provi...
punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
A collection of MCP servers
The Secret History of America’s Involvement in the Ukraine War
This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.
Why We Love to Be Grossed Out - Nautilus
Disgust may not be a straightforward extension of the immune system’s aversion to harmful substances, but rather “a psychological nebula, lacking definite boundaries, discrete internal structure, or a single center of gravity,” says psychologist Nina Strohminger.Photograph by…
First Look at Reasoning From Scratch: Chapter 1
As you know, I've been writing a lot lately about the latest research on reasoning in LLMs. Before my next research-focused blog post, I wanted to offer something special to my paid subscribers as a thank-you for your ongoing support. So, I've started writing a new book on how…
Breaking Through
Icebreakers are corny, corporate get-to-know-you exercises. But there’s something thrilling in dispensing with small talk.
Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality
There is increasing evidence that imagination relies on similar neural mechanisms as externally triggered perception. This overlap presents a challeng…
February 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
In February, one hundred fifty-nine new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in fifteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Genomics, Health Sciences, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Music,...