The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport
Elroy Air flew an uncrewed 500lb cargo aircraft out of a controlled Louisiana airport, in the first such flights under an FAA pilot programme.
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Fighting Illiteracy With Typography
Why an attempt to simplify Arabic script for printing and learning has the potential to boost literacy, and why it has not yet succeeded.
Apple’s A20 Pro Front Side Die Shot Shows New Record For GPU Core Count To Deliver Better Graphics Performance, New Packaging Allows For…
A leaked Apple A20 Pro die shot reveals a record GPU core count for upgraded graphics, while new WMCM packaging unlocks a wider 96-bit memory bus width
A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's
Maximize parallelism across 8x RTX PRO 6000's: high-concurrency inference, model fleets, and 70B fine-tuning.
A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
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The Lost Art of Carrying Loads - Carryology
The conundrum of carrying loads has been met with many fascinating solutions over time, offering valuable insights for modern approaches.
Stop Designing, Start Selling: A Practical Framework for Choosing and Testing Clothing Business Ideas - Retail Focus Magazine - Retail…
Most people who want to start a clothing brand begin in completely the wrong place. They open a design programme, sketch out a collection
PHP Cheatsheet
PHP 8 quick reference for syntax, arrays, functions, classes, request data, files, JSON, exceptions, CLI commands, Composer, configuration, and PHP-FPM.
Metal Stamping Guide: Processes, Tooling, and DfM
Learn how metal stamping works, including processes, tooling, materials, tolerances, and DFM best practices for high-volume production.
AMD Says A Hybrid-Bonded 3D DRAM Is 17x More Energy Efficient Than An HBM Stack That Relies On Microbumps, But Thermal Hurdles Block…
d-Matrix is tackling the 3D DRAM heat problem by stacking memory beneath the XPU, but atomic-level flatness remains a brutal barrier.
What Happened to Amelia Earhart in 1937? | TheCollector
American Aviator Amelia Earhart’s mysterious disappearance in 1937 sparked widespread interest, speculation, and ongoing investigations about what really happened to her.
Just bury your trash - Works in Progress Magazine
OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before
OpenShot 4.0 adds professional color grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative workflows.
You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing
Here’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August.
How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails | SixPatterns
We integrated the OpenTelemetry Ruby logs SDK in a Rails app to export logs directly to a vendor, without running a Collector.
20 Italian Phrases That Unlock Italy
Not textbook Italian. Just the words that help you greet properly, order politely, find your train, ask for the bill, and move through Italy with more confidence.
Why We Like Things
What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste.
But it was also, as I began to realize in my professional life, something that made people like, trust, and value you more.
shifting the focus of knowledge work from production to selection and curation.
Gravel and Forest Roads in Randolph County, WV
Surrounded by nearly one million acres of the Monongahela National Forest, Elkins and Randolph County offer endless opportunities to
The Store Isn’t Dead—but the Merchant Model Is
Retailers need to stop owning so much inventory risk and start operating more like platforms.
10 Classic Films That Defined the Sci-Fi Genre’s History | TheCollector
From A Trip to the Moon to Godzilla, these ten films showcase the evolution and impact of sci-fi cinema throughout the decades.
The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down
Swifts spend all their time in the sky. What can their journeys tell us about the future?
Easy Recipes You Can Make in Your College Dorm
Peanut butter noodles, microwave Nutella cake and more one-pan wonders and no-cook recipes with super-short ingredient lists to save you a trip to the dining hall.
A tiny “rainbow on a chip” could help supercharge 6G networks
Researchers have created a tiny chip that produces a stable “rainbow” of light capable of generating multiple high-frequency signals at once, potentially boosting the speed and capacity of future 6G networks. Its extreme precision could also make it valuable for quantum timing…
Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung’s Near-Memory Compute CXL Device
CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute
What makes a song flop?
Sometimes a song just doesn’t hit.
Why the Andoque of the Amazon fear the seductive dolphin | Aeon Essays
The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous
Opinion | How a ’70s Improv Book Became Silicon Valley’s Required Reading
It can be useful to see reality as malleable.
You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is
The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.
How to Build an ML Pipeline With Python and SQL | Aman Kharwal
Learn how to build a practical ML pipeline using Python and SQL, from data extraction to model deployment, with real-world tips.
Should we laugh more at ourselves? It's complicated
Research shows it's sometimes good for us to poke fun at ourselves, but not always. Here's how to harness the benefits, while avoiding the pitfalls.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Reckoning
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the Meta settlement, which will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram, and how it reflects the degree to which public outrage is outmatched by the speed and size of Big Tech.
3 Reasons You’re Bad at Recognizing What You're Good At, According to a Psychology Professor
Psychologists say criticism, anxiety and the wrong environment can make it harder to recognize the strengths you already have.
Thinking in Python
Vital Records (Interactive) - West Virginia Culture Center
Search Vital Records The Vital Research Records Project is placing Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates on-line. Users can search the records and view
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20 YouTube Videos to Watch Before You Die
The ultimate list for using YouTube to learn
What happens to your brain under anesthesia? - Futurity
New findings challenge the widespread belief that anesthesia is simply a deep sleep. The reality is more complex, researchers found.
'It's so chaotic': Humpback whales are forming super-groups
On a misty morning in December, two photographers captured the images of 304 individual humpbacks – the highest number of large whales ever identified in a single day.
Fifteen Websites Offering Free Downloadable Books, and More
As if you didn't already have enough on your reading list.
The Insider's Guide to French Pharmacies
Marisa Meltzer on 20 years of stockpiling products that feel, smell, and work better than their American counterparts and doling them out to the underserved masses (her friends and colleagues).
'Hullo, hillo, holla': The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
It's 200 years since the word "hello" was first used in print - though its roots date back to the 15th Century. How has the language of greetings evolved - and what does it tell us?
'It's amazing' – the wonder material very few can make
Just a handful of companies can make cadmium zinc telluride, a material with powerful properties.
10 Python One-Liners to Run Common Statistical Tests
In this article, we'll explore 10 Python one-liners that showcase the progression from basic statistical tests to sophisticated analyses.
Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as…
'It's a unique language spoken by two people': The twins who created their own language
Up to 50% of twins develop their own communication pattern with one another. Most lose it over time, but for the Youlden twins it has become a normal way of communicating.
Computing Minimum Sample Size for A/B Tests in Statsmodels: How and Why
A deep-dive into how and why Statsmodels uses numerical optimization instead of closed-form formulas
'Then the alligators got him' - Inside Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant's 1
After the 2022 All-Star Game, Morant's misconduct became more frequent -- and dangerous. Since then, serious allegations have emerged. Lawsuits and subpoenas remain open. And a 24-year-old superstar's career is on the brink.
A/b testing with fat tails
The nightmares that paralyse you
Sleep paralysis has inspired paintings and horror stories. Now scientists are starting to understand why people wake from dreams unable to move.
Model selection, AIC and Tweedie regression
Just some simple codes to illustrate some points we will discuss this week, for the last course on GLMs, before the final exam. We have mentioned that the Gamma distribution belongs to the exponential, so we can run a regression, and compute the associated AIC, > set.seed(123) >…