A Scientist Spent Decades Studying Laughter and Found Something Weird About Humans
Psychology professor Robert Provine spent decades studying laughter and learned a lot about humans along the way.
Qwen Introduces Qwen3.7-Max: A Reasoning Agent Model With a 1M-Token Context Window - MarkTechPost
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max is a reasoning agent model with a 1M-token context window, scoring 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
George Town, Penang, Malaysia: Trains, Ferries, and Life in Little India
We went to Malaysia for the first time in December 2025 on a bit of a whim.
MLE (max likelihood estimation) (@probabilityandstatistics)
Maximum Likelihood Estimation is the quiet engine underneath almost everything in ML, DL, and RL. Most people learn it once in a stats class and move on. They shouldn't. It's not just a parameter-fitting trick — it's the philosophical foundation of why our models work at all…
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century
Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.
How to Estimate the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) with DoWhy How to Estimate the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) with DoWhy
Estimate the Average Treatment Effect in Python using DoWhy with regression and propensity score matching on real data.
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
I spent 31 hours on the math behind TurboQuant so you don't have to
A deep dive by Baseten's research team breaking down the math behind TurboQuant
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
The open-source 3D printing community is lining up to fund a war against Bambu Lab, after it threatened a developer who modified its open-source code.
Meet Turbovec: A Rust Vector Index with Python Bindings, and Built on Google's TurboQuant Algorithm - MarkTechPost
turbovec is a Rust-built vector index using Google Research's TurboQuant that compresses 10M documents from 31 GB to 4 GB.
Chad Wallace (@chadwallace1)
Silicon photonics is one of the hottest and fastest moving markets to address high speed data demands in co-packaged optics (CPO) in AI data centers. In this post I cover a few important high-level details to better understand silicon photonic circuits. These include: Link…
The invention of buses - Works in Progress Magazine
Map of Metal
An interactive map of Metal history and the influential bands that helped shaped the genres we know today
Imec Semiconductor Technology Roadmap: CFETs in 2033
We’re only 7 years from the next evolution in transistors
An Overview of AI Accelerators: MAC Operations, DRAM/SRAM, Performance Metrics, and Architecture
Learning from a classic AI accelerator - Eyeriss
The World Is Yours T-Shirt
Gildan 64000 Unisex Short Sleeve T-Shirt 100% Ringspun Cotton Runs True-To-Size and Pre-Shrunk Tear-Away Label Packed & Shipped in the USA
Surprising Ways to Reduce Turnover in High-Pressure, High-Skill Jobs
A study of ICU nurses over more than two years reveals how hospitals may be misreading the retention problem.
Overload drains people; meaningful responsibility anchors them
This does not mean hospitals should simply pile more work onto nurses
llm-wiki
llm-wiki. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Housewives Nameplate
Express yourself at work or bring some fun to a colleague or friend's desk with a quotable desk sign. Let everyone know that you've got the receipts! proof! timeline! screenshots! So that no matter how busy you are, you'll always make time to discuss the Real Housewives • Black…
Where did all the good sculptors go?
Episode 17 is about carving a new sculpture tradition.
How to Install Podman on Ubuntu: Rootless Container Alternative to Docker
Step-by-step instructions for installing Podman on Ubuntu, running rootless containers, building images with Buildah, and switching from Docker.
The case for and against clipping
Clipping is the creator growth hack of the year, but there are strong arguments for and against the practice. We break them down.
Numerical Python 3rd edition
This book demonstrates how to work with mathematical modeling and solve problems with Python's numerical, symbolic, and visualization techniques.
Getting Started with DoWhy, the Python Causal Inference Library
Learn how to build and test causal inference models in Python using the DoWhy library.
New magnetic chip design could outperform today’s AI accelerators
Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a magnetic switching device that operates at speeds up to 1,000 times faster
If You Feel Guilty All the Time, You Probably Have a High IQ. Here’s Why.
High IQ people can be haunted by guilt in a way most people just don’t understand. It follows you into moments where nothing is technically wrong.
The night clerk
At 2:30 in the morning, the night clerk at the hotel is a great help if you’ve locked yourself out of your room. But if you want to complain about the hours of the gym, the hotel’s envi…
Meet the children’s literature startup that wants to unseat Scholastic as the king of the book fair
Literati has spent years rebuilding the elementary school book fair into something closer to an art installation. Now, with an acquisition by private equity, it's ready to scale fast.
A field guide to quantum computer qubits
Here are six ways to build a quantum computer
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Verification Could Help Secure Crypto Networks
Vitalik Buterin said mathematically verified software may help protect cryptographic infrastructures as AI improves both code generation and vulnerability discovery.
A System Architecture Breakdown of a DSP-Based Modern Wireline Transceiver
How high-speed data requirements influence chip architectural complexity
Why Your Second Brain is Dead Weight
Your Notes Aren't the Bottleneck
alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books
A curated list of best cuda programming books
Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention
From Gemma 4 to DeepSeek V4, How New Open-Weight LLMs Are Reducing Long-Context Costs
The Ashkenazi bottleneck: How 350 people became millions
The genetic founder event that shaped a civilisation
High Voltage, Low Competence
SiC vs GaN , HVDC, and the future of datacenter power.
A day with England's hunt saboteurs
They were once seen as radicals • Now they work with the police • Armed with drones, balaclavas and vegan sausage rolls
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.
Can we please talk about WHY we are in a missile shortage?
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are being cajoled into spending billions more on the military budget need to read this first
Google has sold so much TPU capacity that its own researchers are queueing for the rest
Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most enviable position in AI…
Gate-Keeping is Back, But Different
Consumers are closing ranks to stop the internet ruining everything.
Bash String Manipulation: Substring, Replace, Length, and More
Bash string manipulation using parameter expansion: extract substrings, replace text, strip prefixes and suffixes, change case, and check for substrings with practical examples.
The Mystery and Mass Appeal of the N.F.L. Draft
The annual draft is watched by millions, and analyzed by a set of professional and amateur prognosticators. Still, it comes down to a crapshoot. Dan Greene reports on the college players and draftniks at this year’s event in Pittsburgh.
Tips for Building Knowledge Graphs
Some thoughts about constructing knowledge graphs
The biggest mystery in neuroscience, according to me. Worm brain simulation
Sixty years later and we still can't solve it
Halt and Catch Fire
I have never watched the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire, and for a long time I only knew the title, but nothing about the show. Something about it always reminded...
When the Bell Tolls – History of Marine Insurance and Lloyd’s
Lutine Bell, a historic bell that was salvaged from the shipwreck HMS Lutine in 1858, pretty much signifies what marine insurance is all about and the important role that Lloyds of London plays in it. Today the bell hangs in the rostrum of the underwriting room at the Lloyds…
John Clayton | This is SportsCenter
No ESPN analyst is more dedicated to his craft than John Clayton....
Why Competent People Disappear: Functional Stupidity and the Invisible Professional
Or: how organisations accidentally became very good at ignoring their best people.
The seven biases that control your life
A structural breakdown of the seven cognitive patterns that quietly run your money, ambition, and execution. Seven lenses. One connected sequence.