Laron syndrome: The dwarfism that protects against cancer and diabetes
How resistance to growth hormone creates extraordinary disease resistance
How Bill Lawrence Became TV's Most Prolific Showrunner
The creator of "Rooster," "Scrubs" and "Shrinking" did not expect to have a career renaissance in his late 50s
How we learned what genes are made of
In the 1940s, scientists made a discovery now fundamental to biology: genes are encoded in DNA. The story involves bacteria, dead mice, and a kitchen cream separator.
The thing that makes 4-bit AI work is a grid of nothing but +1s and -1s called a Hadamard matrix. Here's how a 159 year old matrix ended up…
The thing that makes 4-bit AI work is a grid of nothing but +1s and -1s called a Hadamard matrix. Here's how a 159 year old matrix ended up rescuing modern AI model performance: In 1867 James Joseph Sylvester was studying how to color tiles. He found you could build square grids…
Practical NLP in the Browser with Transformers.js
This tutorial covers three NLP tasks: text classification, zero-shot labelling, and question answering using Transformers.js's pipeline() API.
Skill Distillation
"How a personal AI agent built on markdown skills lets a frontier model teach smaller, local models to do real work, without retraining."
How to train Claude to sound like your brand
If Claude keeps writing beige, the problem is probably the brand rules you never gave it. Train AI on your voice, tone, visuals, and style.
NASA Tests Next-gen Radiation-hardened Space Computer Chip - Dataconomy
NASA's High Performance Spaceflight Computing project aims to significantly enhance the computational capabilities of spacecraft, enabling autonomous operations and faster
Decision theory — LessWrong
Decision Theory is the study of principles and algorithms for making correct decisions—that is, decisions that allow an agent to achieve better outcomes with respect to its goals. Every action at least implicitly represents a decision under uncertainty: in a state of partial…
Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding?
Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.
Reading the Room.
The skill I used undercover, the science behind why it works, and four things anyone can do today to walk into any situation with an advantage.
Sending Emails With Python – Real Python
Learn how to send emails with Python using SMTP, attach files, format HTML messages, and personalize bulk emails for your contact list.
5 Scipy.stats Tricks for Simulating 'What If' Scenarios - KDnuggets
In this article, we will take a look under the hood of scipy.stats, exploring five essential tricks to design high-performance, rigorous simulations using only NumPy and SciPy.
Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code
A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns the Anthropic team…
The daily driver uses it like a programmable agent with memory, custom commands, parallel sessions, and a project setup that compounds over time
give Claude a way to verify its own work
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
Brain wave patterns shed light on how you make memories
New research shows distinct patterns in waves of brain activity carry information when forming and recalling memories.
A Bootstrapper's Guide to Re-Industrializing America
I’m a big fan of focusing on things that are within my control. This article is about real actions we can take while we’re waiting for lawmakers to get their shit together. @andrewmccalip, @zanehengsperger, and others have
Sumanth077/ai-engineering-toolkit: A curated list of 100+ libraries and frameworks for AI engineers building with LLMs
A curated list of 100+ libraries and frameworks for AI engineers building with LLMs - Sumanth077/ai-engineering-toolkit
ripgrep Cheatsheet
Quick reference for recursive text searches with the ripgrep command
Top 7 Python Libraries for Large-Scale Data Processing
This article covers Python libraries that make large-scale data processing faster, more scalable, and easier to manage across modern data workflows.
How to Build Alton Brown’s Cardboard Box Smoker - Alton Brown
Alton Brown shares how to build his homemade cardboard box smoker: A tried-and-true method for smoking fish, poultry and even sauce at home.
Whois command in linux
The whois command looks up domain registration, registrar, name server, expiry, IP allocation, and AS number details from Linux.
multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills: A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on…
A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls. - multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills
High-Speed Signal Integrity: Physical Impairments and Equalization Architectures
How signal integrity influences complexity of modern wireline transceiver architecture from first principles
Understanding the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet, Quantitative Easing, and Tightening
Manoj Singh wrote an article for Investopedia titled Understanding the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet (20 February 2026).
How a Curious FIFA Deal Gave Fox a Huge Bargain for World Cup Broadcast Rights
A decision to stave off litigation between Fox and FIFA turned into a bonanza worth hundreds of millions of dollars in discounted World Cup rights to the broadcaster.
Your Mattress Got Worse on Purpose
The world's largest mattress maker now owns America's largest mattress retailer. The FTC tried to stop them and lost.
The Feed Is Fake
What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?
The Practical Guide to LLM Inference on Consumer Hardware
The Practical Guide to LLM Inference on Consumer Hardware A practical walk through quantization, KV caches, Flash Attention, Mamba, MoE, and the runtimes that tie it all together — without the …
The Last American Reed Switch Maker
GE killed their biggest competitor. Russia lost another. A Nebraska family kept making the component nobody thinks about, and now they basically own the market.
YouTube is a Research Library. Here's How to Search It Like One.
30 YouTube tools to find exactly what you need, and the verification framework underneath all of them.
The Nut That Holds the Guardrail
A 97-year-old fastener manufacturer in Albion, Michigan, trading below book value with zero analyst coverage, just paid a special dividend.
Tolerances: Expectations for Industrial 3D Printing
In the world of additive manufacturing, “What tolerance can you guarantee?” is the question everyone asks -- and the one no responsible shop should ever answer with a promise. Industrial 3D...
Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up | Quanta Magazine
By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far bigger program to understand why numbers behave the way they do.
What It's Like to Be...a Custom Harvester - By Dan Heath - Behavioral Scientist
Harvesting five million bushels of wheat and corn from Texas to Montana, outrunning hailstorms that decimate a year's income in 20 minutes, and running a multimillion-dollar convoy of equipment down the highway with Josh Beckley, a third-generation custom harvester from Kansas.
Your North Star Metric is Lying to You
The measurement philosophy that blinds the room it’s supposed to illuminate
The Old Grey Thinker (@theoldgreythinker)
Neighbour asked if I'd "found my purpose yet" in retirement. Felt like being asked if I'd located the meaning of existence between Tesco runs. I've spent forty years at sea, fifteen in emergency services, and now apparently need a purpose beyond not dying and keeping the…
A satellite company supporting Ukraine appears to be in Russia's crosshairs - Ars Technica
This capability is not common for satellites conducting typical missions."
An Essential Guide to Croatia's Dalmatian Coast—Which Now Has Direct Flights From the US
How to explore the best of the region's Roman ruins, Mediterranean cuisine, and white pebble beaches.
Black Gold and Grey Markets
Adventures in energy trading
Snippets from Spain
Baffled in Madrid’s Oldest Hardware Store
Best AI Agents for Software Development Ranked: A Benchmark-Driven Look at the Current Field - MarkTechPost
The AI coding agent field in 2026 is more capable, more fragmented, and harder to benchmark than it looks. Claude Code leads on code quality at 87.6% SWE-bench Verified. GPT-5.5 tops Terminal-Bench at 82.7%. But the benchmark OpenAI itself declared contaminated in February 2026…
SWE-bench
stopped reporting SWE-bench Verified
Why radioactive molecules threaten CERN’s next particle accelerator
To solve the mystery of why the universe exists, physicists have long assumed they need bigger, pricier machines. A radical proposal suggests cheap radioactive molecules could do the job instead
What's the Sticker Price of Exorbitant Privilege?
If you buy into this Pflueger/Yared perspective, then the price of exorbitant privilege is outspending your military adversaries. And the US has outspent other advanced economies by a large margin when you express defense spending as a fraction of GDP. I took its NATO partners…
Bash Arithmetic: Integer and Floating-Point Math
How to do arithmetic in Bash with the (( )) operator, $(( )) expansion, the let builtin, and bc or awk for floating-point math the shell cannot do natively.
How the Cold War Superpowers Tried to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation | TheCollector
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between US President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev were a milestone in the Cold War arms race.
Original Prusa MK4S, the More User-Friendly 3D Printer Than Bambu
Looking for a 3D printer brand more welcoming to owners' tinkering after the Bambu Labs uproar? Let me introduce the Czech Republic's Prusa.
Synthesize Realistic 3D Medical Images at Scale to Ship Pre‑Trained Models | NVIDIA Technical Blog
High‑quality 3D medical imaging data is the foundation of modern radiology AI, but access to it is often constrained by data scarcity, privacy restrictions…