Bits & Boxes: Where Intelligent Software Meets Physical Fulfillment: The Orchestration Gap
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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...
Thorium is a marshmallow test.
China & India are sitting on millenia of fuel. The West keeps eating the marshmallow.
8 Things Movies Have to Fake Because Reality Looks Wrong on Camera
Discover why movies fake rain, blood, explosions, speed, eye lights and more, plus the filmmaking tricks that make reality look right on camera.
'Those memories are being brought back out all the time': Why you never really get over high school
Popularity, one of the defining fixations of adolescence, seems to be seared into our consciousness for decades after we leave school.
A College Caught in the Middle of America’s Football Obsession
Jesse Dougherty on the football culture at Oberlin College and how it reflects the sport’s fanfare in America.
Reverse Engineering a Chip (or well, a GDS)
Bringing BERT — R functions in Excel — up to R 4.6 | R-bloggers
BERT lets you call R functions from Excel cells, but its author stopped work in 2018. Bringing it up to R 4.6 — and to working on every R from 3.5 up — turned up a deadlock that froze Excel and two bugs only the build machine could hide. The post Bringing BERT — R functions in…
New 18-mile trail is revealing a hidden West Virginia river valley - West Virginia Explorer
A new 18-mile rail trail between Rainelle and Nallen is opening a hidden stretch of West Virginia's Meadow River to cyclists and hikers.
Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering
Some voting districts are tilted intentionally toward one party or another—a factor in the midterms. Geometry plays a critical role in gerrymandering
26 cultural values companies get wrong
From accountability to transparency, leaders share where culture can go off track.
The $9.5 Billion Design IP Market: Shifting Boundaries, Arm’s Monopoly, and the RISC-V Response
The $9.45 billion global design IP budget is distributed across 12 distinct sub-categories, heavily dominated by two primary pillars: CPU...
Google AI Mode shows the same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search [Data Study] | Productrise
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
What a novel about a dating app for dead bodies reveals about human connection
Author Sarah Pierce explores dating apps, loneliness and human connection through a novel about a corpse-matching algorithm
This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy
The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted
Chapter 1: Why Tmux? Understanding Terminal Multiplexing
If you have ever run a long command over SSH and lost it because your connection dropped, you already understand the pain tmux solves. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. In plain language, it lets you run and manage multiple terminal workspaces inside one terminal environment, and…
Release Audacity-4.0.0 · audacity/audacity
Audacity 4.0 Audacity 4 rebuilds the application interface on Qt and introduces many new quality-of-life improvements, including a new clip-editing model. Most Audacity 3 workflows remain available...
Why Vibration Is Becoming the New ‘Vital Sign’ in Industrial Systems - Industry Articles
Learn how MEMS sensor technology brings edge AI and vibration monitoring to smart manufacturing, enabling early defect detection and predictive maintenance to prevent downtime.
Why Smart People Stay Broke: The Hidden Game Theory Rule Nobody Teaches You
An economist watched people pay $40 for a $1 bill. Here's why smart people always lose.
The Bone-Marrow-Transplant Revolution
Finding a matched donor has always been the major challenge. A drug has solved that problem.
The Forgery Market
There is a place where you can custom order forgeries of nearly any official document you desire. It’s cheap, fast and, of course, illegal.
Constructing the World’s Biggest (Disassemblable) City
The largest peaceful human gathering in history took place in a megacity planned, built, used and dismantled in the space of five months.