A few weeks ago we looked at a simulation of technological evolution by economist Brian Arthur, in which he was able to start with simple building blocks (such as a NAND gate) and evolve surprisingly complex circuits (such as a 12-way AND gate or a 4-bit adder) by randomly…
In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology.
Build the five components every feature store needs, then see where AI changes the design.
An MIT team proved that it is impossible to get information about correlations from two-way comparisons alone. Correlations can be discerned, however, when large numbers of people rate three alternatives in their order of preference.
Author and essayist Todd Kliman takes his thirteen-year-old son on a culinary field trip to New Orleans.
Linux pipes connect command output to another command's input. Learn the | operator, pipefail, stderr piping, xargs, named pipes, and process substitution.
Sapient researchers trained a 1B reasoning model on just 40B tokens — scoring competitively with 2B-7B models at a fraction of typical pretraining cost.
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) provides a powerful parallel programming model AI engineers can use to tap the massive processing power of NVIDIA GPUs. CUDA delivers direct control, debugging power, and acceleration at the GPU level that can’t be matched by other…
Caging the lightning: How we make aluminium
From weighted planks to "pogos" at bus stops.
Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
Practical Bash array operations for checking length, finding values, slicing, reversing, iterating, appending, prepending, and removing elements.
This guide covers the complete picture: what skills are technically, how to plan and design them, the exact file structure and naming rules, how to write instructions that Claude follows reliably, a complete working skill built from scratch, how to test and distribute, and what…
A January-May 2026 list of notable LLM research papers, covering new models, training methods, agents, reasoning, and efficiency improvements.
Sloane Crosley, the author of “Grief Is for People,” reports on misophonia, the neurophysiological disorder characterized by a severe aversion to sound.
Life, death and new worlds: Gifts from the miracle metal.
Every robot and drone runs on actuators — and China makes 90% of them. Inside the American startups racing to win back the motors the U.S. forgot how to build.
Quick reference for Ansible commands, inventories, playbooks, modules, and vault
Why the poorest people in the world spend fortunes burying their dead
In this article, I’ll go over the open-source LLMs you should know and when to use them. All Open-Source LLMs to know.
Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more!
Practical OpenSSL guide for Linux: generate private keys, create CSRs and self-signed certificates, convert formats, inspect certificates, and test TLS connections.
The uncomfortable truth about being heard
Real success has three signals that are easy to test for: the audience understood the message, the audience felt something specific, and the audience did something afterward
Before you speak — in a meeting, an email, a difficult conversation, a keynote — answer three questions honestly. What do I want them to know? What do I want them to feel? What do I want them to do?
How Facebook AI Research solved the problem of finding similarity at billion-scale. An interactive exploration of IVF, HNSW, and Product Quantization.
In this article, we will explore three essential spaCy tricks that every developer should have in their toolkit to maximize processing speed and customize entity recognition.
three essential spaCy tricks
selective pipeline loading, parallel batch processing, and hybrid rule-based statistical entity recognition
Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.
Emma Chapman's "The Echoing Universe" is a vivid survey of the hidden parts of the cosmos and those who seek them out.
Americans retiring abroad need 3 bank accounts to manage money smoothly. Here's the simple system: U.S. home base, fintech bridge, and local account.
Nic C is a musician who samples music from classic television programs. He takes short slices--just a few notes each--of these famous songs and uses them to compose new music that is simulatenously original and familiar.If you're a fellow Gen Xer, you'll appreciate Nic C's…
Multiple myeloma is brutal. We may finally have a cure, but American regulatory inertia means that it was discovered abroad.
Some stories are worth revisiting at every stage of life.
Nah, man.
Delta-8 and Delta-9 are closely related cannabinoids, and both will get you high. Legally, it's very confusing—but the basic science is not that mysterious.
This guide explains when to use pip or apt for Python packages on Ubuntu and Debian, why sudo pip install is risky, and where virtual environments fit.
“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography Palm Sunday. His answer?
According to benchmark platform Artificial Analysis, Nvidia's new Nemotron 3 Ultra is the most capable open AI model from the US to date.
The fugitive childhood of a cocaine smuggler's daughters.
A deep dive into LiteParse's grid projection algorithm — how it extracts text from PDFs while preserving tables, columns, and alignment. Open source.
What semolina actually means, what the shape names tell you, why the brightest box is usually a trap, and which Italian pasta brands you should buy.
A field guide to the bar, where the rules are unspoken and everybody knows them but you.
In this article, we will dive deep into five must-know Python concepts that will help you transition from writing clunky, slow spaghetti code to constructing lightning-fast, production-grade, and beautifully functional data pipelines.
Why was Babe Ruth so good at hitting a baseball? In 1921, a journalist and two psychologists brought the "home run king" into the lab to find out.
From an ER doctor that worked at a TRAUMA center in Queens, NY
This guide explains how to pass arguments to Bash scripts, read positional parameters, loop over $@, set defaults, validate input, and parse flags with getopts.
Quick reference for rebooting and scheduling restarts on Linux
DeepSeek V4 runs a million-token context at a quarter of V3.2's compute and a tenth of its KV cache. The trick is two new attention kernels it shipped, CSA and HCA. Here's how they work: At a million tokens, two things explode: the KV cache grows linearly with the sequence, and…
A deep dive from Contrary Research.
The lost art and Turbine economics