How Neuroscience Is Shaking the Foundation of Our Legal System | TheCollector
Can brain scans predict criminal intent? We examine the tense collision between modern neuroscience and the age-old foundations of our justice system.
What if college football teams could be sold? Ranking Power 4 teams by their valuation
How much would it take to buy an NCAA football team on the open market? Here's what we think all 68 Power 4 teams would sell for.
Ch. 1 Introduction - Psychology 2e | OpenStax
Clive Wearing is an accomplished musician who lost his ability to form new memories when he became sick at the age of 46. While he can remember how to p...
Some useful equations for biological processes | R-bloggers
Biological phenomena are often studied by examining how a numerical variable, usually called the response (e.g., the weight or height of an organism), is affected by another variable, usually called the predictor (e.g., time or fertiliser applic...
June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages | R-bloggers
Four hundred twelve new packages were submitted to CRAN in June. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Bioarchaeology, Biology, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Machine ...
Intel 18A-P and 14A gain Cadence’s full EDA toolchain, tightening the ecosystem push to challenge TSMC’s foundry lead
Cadence has announced that its AI-driven digital and custom reference flows, tools, and solutions are now Intel 18A-P & 14A certified.
How a Fitted Product Category Learned to Sell Online - Retail Focus Magazine - Retail Design
For most of the last twenty years, tyres were held up as an example of a category that could not fully move online.
Real-life thriller: A mysterious hijacking, an unsolved murder, and $100 million in the balance.
A mysterious assault. An unsolved murder. And a ship that hasn’t given up all its secrets.
Yes, Transformers Are a Problem...
But So Are Converters, Inverters, and MMCs!
The Mighty Mudbug – Texas Monthly
Is there anything sweeter than crawfish in season? Come along for the best eats in Louisiana and Texas.
The Witness – Texas Monthly
For more than a decade, Michelle Lyons’s job required her to watch condemned criminals be put to death. After 278 executions, she won't ever be the same.
Trigger: The Life of Willie Nelson's Guitar – Texas Monthly
Most guitars don’t have names. This one has a voice and a personality, and bears a striking resemblance to his owner.
Life, in Dog Years – Texas Monthly
My father always pampered his pets. So when he fell ill and moved in with us, it was no surprise that his corgi came to rule our home. What I didn’t expect was for Trilby to care for me after Dad was gone.
How should we think about Starship?
What started as the Mars Colonial Transporter risks becoming a humble space truck
The Myth of the Food Desert
Kelefa Sanneh reviews “Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement,” by Hanna Garth.
How to Convert MP4 to MP3 with ffmpeg
Convert MP4 video to MP3 audio from the Linux command line with ffmpeg, including quality settings, lossless extraction, trimming, and batch conversion.
AI Accelerators: The Cambrian Explosion
A sample of the designs that followed Google's first Tensor Processing Unit.
Homemade Ramen
For a weekend project, try our homemade ramen recipe that walks you through every component, from the base to the toppings.
Under Wraps
Bored with baseball cards and baubles, Jason Liebig turned to collecting vintage candy wrappers—and his Astoria apartment now houses some 10,000 of them.
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
Nikhil Krishnan reviews “How to Kill a Language,” Sophia Smith Galer’s new book on global language loss.
Star In A Box
How to cage the sun
The Memory in Your Thumb Drive Could Fix AI's Big Problem
High Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
Rope-a-Dope
Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death? Zach Helfand reports.
The next morning, I caught a training session at the pool. It was difficult to discern the outward effects of enhancement on the athletes. The swimmers looked like swimmers—sinewy and long, with huge hands and feet. An exception was James Magnussen, an Australian who’d been the first person to sign…
A Brief History of the Internet’s Favorite Scam
Fraudsters have long told stories of imprisoned nobles and hidden fortunes, with desperate pleas for help. Email simply gave their messages a perfect medium.
Stranded Indium-Phosphide
Degenerate stupid idea.
Correction for Listing 6.5 in Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch
Short correction note for the random seed in Listing 6.5 on page 198 of Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch.
How to Find Which Process Is Using a Port in Linux
Find the Linux process listening on a TCP or UDP port with ss, lsof, fuser, or netstat, then inspect and stop it safely.
Claude Opus 5: The System Card — LessWrong
Claude Opus 5 is trying to be the best of both worlds. On many practical tasks, Opus 5 is pitched as straight up as good or better than Fable 5, whil…
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap - Ars Technica
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing - MarkTechPost
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with 1M token context, unchanged $5/$25 pricing, and state-of-the-art agentic coding benchmarks
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth Anthropic has shipped in under two months, following Fable 5 in early June, Sonnet 5…
Prompting Claude Opus 5
Behavioral differences and prompting patterns for Claude Opus 5, covering response verbosity, agentic narration, task scoping, subagent delegation, self-correction, and output artifacts when thinking is disabled.
Yamal LNG: The Plant Built at the End of the Earth
A liquefaction plant at 71°N, built on 60,000 piles in permafrost, producing around 4% of the world's traded LNG.
West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during COVID. Many are staying
Ascend West Virginia is one of dozens of relocation initiatives across the country offering cash and other incentives to move to states needing an economic boost. Here's how they're working out.
mount Cheatsheet
Quick reference for the mount command: mount and unmount filesystems, mount options, UUID and label mounts, network shares, and /etc/fstab entries
LEGO Just Built the X-Files Set Every ’90s Fan Always Wanted - Yanko Design
During the mid-'90s to the early 2000s, all my friends knew that you couldn't disturb me on Thursday nights because I was glued to my television set, watching The X-Files. I was so absorbed in the series' mythology, the strange cases of the week, and all things alien during…
let's talk more technical details about AMD's Helios! Anthropic just signed a $5B deal with AMD. and AMD's own version of GTC, Advancing…
let's talk more technical details about AMD's Helios! Anthropic just signed a $5B deal with AMD. and AMD's own version of GTC, Advancing AI, is happening today and tomorrow. the high level details are: 72 MI455X GPUs, 432GB of HBM4 each, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4. but the most…
marcelroed/gigatoken: Language model tokenization at GB/s
Language model tokenization at GB/s
New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that AI (and humans) can trust – GeekWire
Docugami, the Kirkland, Wash., startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, is open-sourcing DGML, a format that turns business documents into structured, verifiable data for AI. The company is releasing it under an open-source license and partnering with Inveniam and Mantra to…
Inveniam will record a kind of digital fingerprint of each piece of DGML data on NVNM Chain, its blockchain built with Mantra, a crypto firm that Inveniam is acquiring.
That means, for example, that a single fact buried in a 200-page lease — such as the rental rate, a renewal option, or a default clause — can be verified on its own, without exposing the whole document. An investor, auditor, or AI agent can trace it to the page it came from.
A strange transmissible cancer is spreading through the catfish in this lake
For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.
CEA-Leti Looks to FeRAM as AI Reshapes Memory Roadmap - EE Times
CEA-Leti’s François Andrieu said it is pushing FeRAM because it could offer a useful combination of density, high endurance, and high speed.
ECC and DDR5
Hamming Codes ECC RAM corrects errors that occur in memory before it gets to the CPU. The most common form of ECC is the Hamming Code [1] which when it has R redundant bits can correct single bit e…
New Orleans Gulf Seafood Guide: Oysters, Shrimp, Fish, Crab and Crawfish - Culinary Backstreets
A primer on New Orleans seafood, tracing the Gulf’s oysters, shrimp, fish, crab, crawfish and alligator from old oyster bars and neighborhood fish frys to markets, po’boy shops and white-tablecloth restaurants.
How to Talk to Someone Who's Lost in Nonsense
The Socratic method isn't about being nice. It's about making someone hear themselves.
The Company That Taught Steel to Swim
It invented the offshore oil platform, drowned twice on dry land... and now does ten billion dollars of revenue on the Expert Market.
lsusb, lspci, and lshw: List Hardware in Linux
Identify the hardware in a Linux machine: list USB devices with lsusb, find PCI cards and their drivers with lspci, and get a full inventory with lshw.
Drill For Victory!
Why fracking is the most steampunk thing ever.
Startup Unveils AI Model Built On Oscillators And It Could Cut Energy Use By 1,000x - Dataconomy
Unconventional AI has unveiled an experimental image-generation model that replaces conventional calculation-heavy computing with a simulated network of physical oscillators.
To generate an image, the system assigns different oscillator phase patterns to categories such as shoes or trains. A smaller group configured with the desired pattern acts as the prompt and gradually pulls the wider network of randomly positioned oscillators toward the same arrangement.
The system then records the oscillators’ final phases as a numerical grid. A separate decoder converts that grid into pixel values to produce the image.
The Glass Famine
Spies, war, industrial subterfuge and secret recipes. And it all really happened. Honestly, what more could you ask for?