Journey to the Invisible Planet

The tangled history of humanity’s search for the solar system’s uncharted planets.

The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever

While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.

The Art of Leadership: Lessons from Art Blakey

Let Your People Shine

Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm

Working code examples meant to clarify AlphaDev's deep learning assembly optimizations.

How our brains cope with speaking more than one language

Speaking a second or even a third language can bring obvious advantages, but occasionally the words, grammar and even accents can get mixed up.

You need to add some friction to your growth funnel

One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to user experience is that we must eliminate as many questions and barriers as possible.

In the Dead of Night, a Deafening War

The first piece in our new series on species interconnectedness traverses through the 60-million-year-old evolution of bats and moths.

To rebuild Notre Dame's fire-ravaged roof, carpenters use centuries-old tec

When fire engulfed the Paris landmark in 2019, the intricate maze of medieval beams supporting the roof fell to the cathedral floor. Experts are working to restore the church by the end of 2024.

This 1-Ingredient No-Cook Stock is at the Heart of Japanese Vegetarian Cook

Konbu dashi lends flavor and depth to these three refreshing plant-based classics.

The Case for and Against Ed Sheeran

The pop singer’s trial for copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend’s “Let’s Get It On” highlights how hard it is to draw the property lines of pop.

The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World

Ocean creatures soak up huge amounts of humanity’s carbon mess. Should we value them like financial assets?

How to Remove a File from Git and Add it to `.gitignore`

If you no longer want to include a file in Git version control and want to add it to the .gitignore...

Reasons to Avoid Nofollow Link Attributes

Google in 2023 views nofollow link attributes as hints, not commands. Here's a rundown of common nofollow mistakes and the (limited) cases for using them.

Real estate is China's economic Achilles heel

It's the country's biggest engine of growth an employment, financial asset, and source of government revenue.

Why Copper and Nickel Are the Key Metals for Energy Utopia

Smart TV industry rocked by alleged patent conspiracy from chip maker

Lawsuit: Patent trolls created “harmful illusion” of unstable TV-chip market.

36 Hours in Split, Croatia

This Croatian port city is fueled by long seafood lunches, ancient traditions and wine-filled evenings.

Inside 4chan’s top-secret moderation machine

Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over.

8 Tips for Shaping Product Aesthetics with UI Mood Boards

Discover what UI moodboards are and learn how they can help you perfect product aesthetics. Get our do's and dont's of UI mood board.

10 Terrifying 21st Century Novels

Why not take a walk with us, past the KEEP OUT sign and underneath the velvet rope, to the forbidden section of the library, where the evil books dwell…

System Calls in Linux

System calls are an integral part of the Linux architecture. Learn about the most common types of system calls in Linux.

'Duped': Inside the Black Market for Illegal Temporary License Plates

When a Harlem 20-something answered a Craigslist ad, he had no idea he was about to become a dealer of illegal ghost plates.

LMM Garden | Discover, search, and compare LLMs

Welcome to the LMM garden! A searchable list of open-source and off-the-shelf LLMs available to ML practitioners. Know of a new LLM? Add it

Intel Is All-In on Back-Side Power Delivery

The company’s PowerVia interconnect tech demonstrated a 6 percent performance gain

iryna-kondr/scikit-llm

Seamlessly integrate LLMs into scikit-learn.

How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application

In this article, we'll introduce Ruby on Rails' lesser-known but powerful cousin Sinatra. We'll use...

A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.

10 Jupyter Notebook Tips and Tricks for Data Scientists

Unlock the full potential of Jupyter Notebook with expert tips and techniques, including time-saving shortcuts, powerful magic functions, and advanced features, to boost your productivity.

AMD’s RX 7600: Small RDNA 3 Appears

Editor’s Note (6/14/2023): We have a new article that reevaluates the cache latency of Navi 31, so please refer to that article for some new latency data.

Diminishing Returns in Machine Learning Part 1

Hardware Development and the Physical Frontier

Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy

This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.

The importance of a name.

A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.

New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.

How to hold onto a sense of wonder

Katherine May's new book examines the idea of awakening wonder in an "anxious age." And when I tell you that I dog-eared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth.

The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh

After a painting by the Dutch artist sold at auction, a movie producer claimed to be the owner. It later vanished from sight, with a trail leading to Caribbean tax havens and a jailed Chinese billionaire.

The Ultimate Guide for Optimal SoC Floorplan

Floorplanning plays a crucial role in the physical design of an SoC and lays the foundation for an efficient and high-performance ASIC layout. In this article, we will discuss ten essential floorplanning commandments that physical design engineers can follow to ensure a…

Creating Custom Rails Generators

A complete and concise overview to help you create custom Rails Generators and avoid the speed bumps that might otherwise slow you down.

The Case for Running AI on CPUs Isn’t Dead Yet

GPUs may dominate, but CPUs could be perfect for smaller AI models

An Illustrated Guide to Mouth Gestures and Their Meanings Around the World

An excerpt from François Caradec’s book “Dictionary of Gestures.”

The Complete Collection Of MTV’s Headbangers Ball: Watch 1,215 Videos from

Premiering in April 1987, MTV's Headbangers Ball featured music videos from metal and hard rock bands of the 80s and 90s--everyone from AC/DC and Mötley Crüe, to Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard and Twisted Sister, to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Van Halen.

How Having Synesthesia Helps This Perfumer Create Unique Scents

When perfumer Frédéric Malle experiences a fragrance, he also perceives it as an array of colors. This is what it's like to see — and smell — the world as someone who has synesthesia.

$100 Million Gone in 27 Minutes

After possibly the most expensive jewelry heist in U.S. history, Brink’s went after the victims.

What working as a military psychologist taught me about coaching people

3 tips for coaching people, from a former military psychologist

Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code

LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts…

Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags (Published 2023)

Can you tell the difference between a $10,000 Chanel bag and a $200 knockoff? Almost nobody can, and it’s turning luxury fashion upside down.

The Internals of PostgreSQL: Database Cluster, Databases, and Tables

PostgreSQL, a widely adopted open-source relational database management system (RDBMS), offers robust...

Taxonomy of procrastination

There’s a little accountant named Jim that lives in my head

The Secret Sound of Stax

The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul.

Sklearn Pipelines for the Modern ML Engineer: 9 Techniques You Can’t Ignore

Master Sklearn pipelines for effortless and efficient machine learning. Discover the art of building, optimizing, and scaling models with ease. Level up your data preprocessing skills and supercharge your ML workflow today

Appending to Arrays in Bash

In this quick Bash tip, you'll learn about appending to an existing array in bash.