Common Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Build Your Own DRAM Supply Model
Wafer starts, die size, yield, HBM mix, node migration impacts, etc. Simple enough to follow, but detailed enough to learn from.
A Deep Dive into SRAM: The Staging Ground of LLM Inference
Fundamentals of SRAM and how SRAM constraints affect array size scaling and LLM inference performance
Why We Think We Know More Than We Do
Why We Think We Know More Than We Do: Breaking down the famous “Dunning-Kruger effect” with David Dunning himself
Those in the bottom quartile of performance wildly overestimated their skill in that domain
top quartile often underestimated their relative skill (though to a lesser extent).
View: Big tech meets Milton Friedman
Big Tech is working its way through all four stages of a money-spending matrix legendary economist Milton Friedman outlined.
Milton Friedman, the legendary economist, laid out a simple matrix. Spend your own money on yourself and you’re disciplined on cost (it’s your money) and clear on value (you know what you want.). That’s an efficient economy, though not a very vibrant one. Spend your own money on someone else and…
big tech companies are spending other people’s money on other people.
The online shopping trend where you buy nothing
On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery.
Note: On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery.
rubygems distribution docs
Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects
HBM’s Manufacturing Complexities Mean General-Purpose DRAM Still The Primary Cash Cow For Companies Like Micron; Gross Margins Estimated To…
HBM manufacturing complexities are keeping general-purpose DRAM as Micron’s main cash cow, with DRAM gross margins projected to reach 95% by 2027
New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers - Ars Technica
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night
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lsblk Command in Linux: List Block Devices
Use lsblk to list disks, partitions, filesystems, UUIDs, and mount points in Linux, then customize columns and produce JSON output for scripts.
A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he?
The long read: When exiled Russian opposition campaigner Igor Rogov was accused of working for the Kremlin, his friends were shocked. Could this young activist have really been an undercover agent?
Here’s the Scoop: A Reading List on Ice Cream - Longreads
Seven stories that celebrate the surprising influence of a humble dessert.
The Mystery of Dark Oxygen
James Dinneen on the search for dark oxygen in the Moab Khotsong gold-and-uranium mine, outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
Build Wide, Ship Narrow | Blog
Splitting a finished branch into small PRs used to be the expensive part, so we decided the boundaries before the code existed. That cost collapsed. Now the code can tell you where to cut it.
The Three-Stroke Problem
When three kinds of strokes entangle with each other, the resulting design system is chaotic for most initial conditions. Let's go through the stroke rendering in design software.
The deep satisfaction of doing work that lasts | Psyche Notes to Self
In Studs Terkel’s oral history ‘Working’, some of the people happiest with their work have something in common
There are various things that workers seem to be seeking, and sometimes finding, in Terkel’s book, such as respect, autonomy or a way to be themselves. But the builders and other stories suggest that a big one is the desire to make something that lasts in the world. Perhaps this is an extended form…
BBCube: A Novel Chip-on-Wafer Technology for Next-Generation AI Chip Integration - Semiconductor Digest
Three core technologies involving advanced packaging, chip interconnects, and thermal design enable high-performance semiconductor systems.
How to use MCP to get more data from the tools you already use
Your SEO tools already contain the answers. MCP makes it easier to ask questions your dashboards weren't built to handle.
15 incredibly useful things you didn't know Claude could do
Move over, ChatGPT and Gemini. Anthropic's AI chatbot can perform some fantastically useful feats—if you know what to ask.
Behold the ‘glueball,’ a strange new form of matter
Collider in China forges elusive particle, made of force-carrying gluons
Note: Matter is like a Russian doll. Molecules are made of atoms, atoms of electrons and nuclei, and nuclei of protons and neutrons. Protons and neutrons, in turn, consist of quarks held together by a swarm of gluons. A glueball would be different: a particle whose mass comes almost entirely from gluons bound to one another, with little or no quark content.
Could Rocky’s musical language in Project Hail Mary actually work?
Linguists explain how a language built from musical notes could convey complex meaning and even support conversation
Form Energy raises $750M to build more 100-hour batteries for the grid
Form Energy has landed Google and Crusoe as customers. Now, it has raised $750 million to expand manufacturing to deliver its massive, 100-hour batteries.
Here's how gyms, salons and ice cream are changing America's Main Streets
Shoppers' changing habits are fueling a major shift in what types of businesses are occupying storefronts.
IKEA complexity index
Speaking of IKEA, the IKEA complexity index by Greg Technology is a catalog of 20,000 products ranked by how long they take to build. When you get a PAX corner wardrobe, prepare for a manual in 16 …
Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 3): How Backpropagation Really Works
From one gradient to every gradient
The Dirtiest Teams in College Football: The 2026 Ranking
The Action Network built the Dirty Score, meaning a single number showing how undisciplined each team was from 2020 to 2025.
Cure all diseases
Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.