Dogs, devils, clams and catfish: When cancer is contagious
In a handful of animals, tumors can be transmitted like infectious diseases or parasites, defying science’s tidy definitions
Reducing Fab Cycle Time: What MES, Dispatching, Scheduling and APC Each Contribute - Semiconductor Digest
Dispatching, finite-capacity scheduling, MES, APC and simulation each attack a different share of the time wafers spend waiting, and all of them depend on accurate WIP and equipment-state data.
443: Image Hosting is Quite Powerful on CodePen
We’ve made several upgrades to uploading/hosting images on CodePen lately. One change, moving to the open-source file-uploading library Uppy, was driven by business concerns. But the benefits…
Want to be a lifelong learner? Don’t go it alone | Psyche Ideas
The history of autodidacticism shows that learning has always been social. The right relationships open intellectual horizons
Form Energy and its iron batteries
Form’s 100-hour batteries could make clean energy more weather-resilient and help power data centers.
The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators
2.3K likes, 121 comments. "The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regul...
5 Statsmodels Functions That Give You the "Why" Behind the "What"
Statsmodels answers the questions sklearn was never built to answer: is this coefficient real or noise, does this added complexity earn its keep, can I trust these p-values in the first place, and which specific data points are quietly running the whole show.
Note: Run a regression in scikit-learn, and you get exactly two things back: a set of coefficients and a .predict() method. Ask it for a p-value on any of those coefficients, and there’s no built-in way to get one. This isn’t a missing feature scikit-learn’s maintainers overlooked; it’s a deliberate design choice they’ve stated directly: scikit-learn is built for prediction, not statistical inference…
Solving the Five Hard Problems of NFC Antenna Integration at 13.56 MHz - EE Times
Solve 13.56 MHz NFC antenna integration challenges with expert engineering solutions for metal shielding, placement limits, and chipset matching.
A Practical Guide To Naming Things — Smashing Magazine
A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures.
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking
The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris - Longreads
The beloved video game Tetris has a fascinating, complicated history. While the Tetris Company (TTC) claims exclusive rights to the geometric pieces at the heart of the game, known as tetrominoes, history shows that the Russian engineer and game designer duo behind TTC did not…
NVIDIA-Backed Reflection Used 10,500x GB300 GPUs And 46.4 Million Sandboxes Per Day For 4 Weeks To Train Beam, A 501B Open-Weight Model…
Reflection claims Beam is 3-4x more efficient than GLM 5.2 and over 4x more efficient than leading Western open models.
Nobody Redesigned the Allen Key for 115 Years. Here’s the Fix. - Yanko Design
Some of the most personal furniture purchases come with the least personal tool. You bring home a crib, spread the pieces across the floor, and end up pressing a skinny metal Allen key into your fingertips while trying to line up the next bolt. It slips. Your hand cramps. The…
Why Common Lisp
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Two Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates | Vals AI
We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made in 1999. We're…
Mosquitoes are a choice - Works in Progress Magazine
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Kobuk the Destroyer, and Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering,” by Alex Davies.
sqlite3 Command Line: Create and Query SQLite Databases
Create and query SQLite databases with sqlite3 on Linux. Import CSV files, format query results, and back up or restore your data.
Frontier | Winston (@frontiermap)
One Army plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, is the only US manufacturer of the military explosives RDX and HMX. The plant, Holston, supplies most of the explosives used in US bombs, missiles and artillery shells. In 1980 five US plants could make about 119 million pounds of RDX a…
The Evolutionary Raw Deal of the Human Knee - Nautilus
Why don’t great apes have knee problems?
Learn SSH
SSH is how you log in to and work on remote Linux machines. Start with the basics, then secure your setup and fix the errors you are most likely to run into.
Why barcodes are about to go extinct
Why barcodes are about to go extinct and QR codes are set to take over, transforming the future of retail.
Why Adults Are Playing with Toys
After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.”
8 Best Stationery Designs for People With a Slightly Unhealthy Obsession With Pens & Notebooks - Yanko Design
Nobody needs their fortieth pen. That has never stopped anyone who truly loves stationery from buying it anyway, because a new notebook still feels like a small event no matter how many already sit in the drawer. This list is for that person, not the casual note taker, but…
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The 12th-century military disaster that forever changed global finance
After a plague-ridden crusade left Venice drowning in debt, the republic created the world's first bond market, changing the relationship between the government and its citizens.
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking
Visualizing user attitudes and behaviors in an empathy map helps UX teams align on a deep understanding of end users.
Explosion Inside!
The story of internal combustion, part 1.
How to see rainbows on exoplanets
A future NASA telescope could spot atmospheric phenomena on planets orbiting other stars
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AI finally beat the best Stratego player in history—and did it on a budget - Ars Technica
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
Nobody Expected a Dumpster to Be the Coolest Bag - Yanko Design
Anyone who has seen me carry my huge tote bag probably wonders how I can find anything inside it. To be honest, it takes me a few seconds, and sometimes even a few minutes, to dig through the seemingly bottomless pit. The bag is deep, and I tend to carry a lot of stuff. Sure,
Inside Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao’s Life After Prison
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
Use Graph RAG when relationships are part of the evidence - The New Stack
Discover how Graph RAG combines vector search with explicit relationship mapping to provide reliable evidence for complex AI questions.
Vector retrieval finds text or records whose meaning is similar to a question, even when they use different words.
This is where Graph RAG justifies the additional work it requires. Use it when the relationships among facts are part of the evidence behind the answer.
DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA
‘Independent, self-controlled’: DeepSeek open-sources TileLang and six modules for Huawei’s Ascend chips, offered as an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA.
How microfactories are changing the manufacturing playbook
These small, modular facilities are leveraging robotics, additive manufacturing and advanced technologies to alleviate long lead times for parts and components.
Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.
The Great Cholesterol Scam and The Dangers of Statins
Exploring the Actual Causes and Treatments of Heart Disease
Book of Shapes
A curated gallery of generative patterns. Discover, customize, and download unique algorithmic art.
A Place Among the Fiddlers - Longreads
In a southwest Virginia fairground, thousands of musicians gather every August to keep a centuries-old tradition from flickering out.
Game Engines Explained: How They Work, Why They Cost So Much, and Where They’re Going Next
Explore the evolution of game engines like Unreal Engine 5 and Unity, which dominate 42% and 30% of developer usage, highlighting their capabilities and market impact.
Healthy Soups and Stews
Whether you’re feeling under the weather or just want a hot and slurpable meal, these healthy soups and stews — like chicken noodle soup, pasta e fagioli, cabbage soup, gochujang potato stew, vegetable soup and more — will warm you from top to toe.
The Space Review: Stars in the sky: The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites from the 1970s to the 21st century
Ollama for Managing Local Language Models: A KDnuggets Cheat Sheet - KDnuggets
Ollama pulls model weights, keeps an HTTP server on port 11434, and hands any client an OpenAI-shaped endpoint pointed at your own machine. Learn how to manage, configure, and optimize using Ollama right here.
The Family Plan - The Atavist Magazine
When a little girl in Iowa was diagnosed with a rare incurable disease, her parents and their community came together to help her. They wound up making medical history.
The Assumptions of Logistic Regression (Explained in Plain English)
Learn the six assumptions of logistic regression, what violations look like, and how to fix them.
Photonics Fundamentals For Electronics Engineers: eBook
What it is, why it's important, and how it's being used.
Building Faster Prefix Search With the Trie Data Structure
Returning suggestions after every keystroke is expensive when a system stores millions of entries. Find out how the trie data structure narrows each search and the most effective ways to build a working implementation in Java.
The Story of Storytelling, by Ferris Jabr
What the hidden relationships of ancient folktales reveal about their evolution—and our own
Behold the pawpaw, the tropical ‘alien banana’ that grows right here in Canada
The pawpaw fruit tastes of banana, mango and pineapple and was once abundant across parts of North America, but it can still be found growing wild and in some orchards.