Defining Color - Longreads
"A deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral, bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william."
Mangrove Lithium Cuts Waste in Battery Production
A new lithium refining method uses electrochemistry to cut waste and energy use, easing a key bottleneck for electric vehicles.
Observability for your LLM-powered apps: OTel Instrumentation for RubyLLM
LLM calls are black boxes in production. Learn how to add structured observability to your RubyLLM-powered app with OpenTelemetry.
Nvidia says it can shrink LLM memory 20x without changing model weights
Nvidia's KV Cache Transform Coding (KVTC) compresses LLM key-value cache by 20x without model changes, cutting GPU memory costs and time-to-first-token by up to 8x for multi-turn AI applications.
What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?
Unsloth Docs | Unsloth Documentation
Train your own model with Unsloth, an open-source framework for LLM fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
10 Reddit Comment Frameworks That Actually Win on You Visibility (Steal These for Your Brand) - LaunchClub Blog
Most people fail on Reddit because they write comments like ads. Reddit eats ads for breakfast. It's better to follow a Reddit comment framework that
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What Are Psychedelic Entities? - NOEMA
The beings people often meet while using psychedelics resist tidy explanations.
5 competitive gates hidden inside 'rank and display'
The annotation, recruitment, grounding, display, and won gates determine which content AI engines trust and recommend. Here’s how it works.
The false positive paradox explains why you misjudge risk
Here’s how a mathematical paradox distorts our view of news, safety and statistics
Welsh police learned this lesson the hard way during the 2017 Union of European Football Associations Champions League final. They deployed cameras throughout Cardiff, where the soccer event was held, and used automated facial-recognition software to analyze the footage. The software scanned the…
Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt
Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.
Coding agents for data analysis
Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that tools like Claude …
The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play
In a culture driven by outrage and constant alerts, play may be the simplest way to reclaim focus, resilience, and human connection.
Facts and the Fight for Moral High Ground - by Gwen Ottinger - Behavioral Scientist
How science can get it right and still miss the point.
No one in the Story Station actually questioned the character of refinery workers. In fact, Philly Thrive members went out of their way to affirm workers’ need for jobs.
Compare Bennett’s approach to that of refinery workers.
5 Python Pandas Functions That Replace 50 Lines of Code
Learn five Pandas functions that dramatically simplify common data manipulation tasks and replace lengthy manual code.
Browser Ad Bidding Process
ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.
Is First-Run Syndication On Its Broadcast Deathbed?
One of television’s most important business models, first-run syndication to local TV stations looking to fill airtime, might be losing strea … er, steam.
Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the World’s Most Critical Chokepoint and Why Markets Are Mispricing Duration by 300%
Private Reinsurance, IRGC Fragmentation, Interceptor Depletion, and a Dead Nuclear Fatwa Have Produced a Crisis No Military Victory Can Resolve
New LLM Architecture Gallery
I put together a new LLM Architecture Gallery that collects the architecture figures from my recent comparison articles in one place, together with compact fact sheets and links.
The Optimization Ladder
Python loses every public benchmark by 21-875x. I took the exact problems people use to dunk on Python and climbed every rung of the optimization ladder -- from CPython version upgrades to Rust. Real numbers, real code, real effort costs.
Inside the Space-Age Bid To Build Millions of Homes in Factories
Operation Breakthrough, a 1970s federal moonshot to build 26 million homes using advanced manufacturing methods, has lessons for today’s abundance movement.
Analyzing Nvidia GB10's GPU
Looking at Nvidia's latest effort to make a big iGPU
HYTTE Is the Mobile Home Design the RV World Needed - Yanko Design
The motorhome has always had an identity problem on wheels. It is supposed to feel like home, but most of the time it looks and feels like neither a proper vehicle nor a proper house. It sits awkwardly in that middle ground, too big to be elegant and too cramped to be genuinely…
They Came to Spy on America. They Stayed to Coach Little League.
In the wake of the Cold War, some Soviet bloc spies decided their fake American lives weren’t so bad.
The Great AI Silicon Shortage
TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner
CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
Detect your hardware and find out which AI models you can run locally. GPU, CPU, and RAM analysis in your browser.
The Top Supply Chain Articles of All Time Part 2
Python Cheatsheet
Quick reference for Python 3 syntax, data types, string and list methods, control flow, functions, file I/O, and exception handling.
How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs
While some bacteriophages play vital roles in laboratory research, others are bent on sabotage.
TNO and High Tech Campus Eindhoven begin construction of first 6-inch indium phosphide photonic chip foundry
€150m investment stems from European Chips Act as part of PIXEurope consortium
Solving the heat problems: How silicon photonics is redefining thermal efficiency in data centers
Interconnect efficiency is now essential and photonics can help
Dignity
Dignity is core to our humanity and woven into our sense of agency, authenticity, and the way others treat us, yet what it looks and feels like shifts across cultures, circumstances, and relationships. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, Dr. Bob Duke, and…
How to make your own static site generator
One Billion Lost Packages
"85 million US packages arrived damaged in 2024, a 30% increase. BackOps deploys AI agents that accelerate customer response times by 93% and automatically file 100% of eligible carrier claims."
From 500 Conversations to Product-Market Fit with Asad Tirmizi - Predictable Revenue
Many startups chase product-market fit as if it’s a moment of discovery. But for deep-tech founders, the journey is often much longer.
Get Listed | RAM Supply Chain
Get Listed Accomplished manufacturing and supply-chain professionals may request consideration for inclusion in our vetted consultant directory. Members are selected based on proven expertise and alignment to ensure focused, confidential matches that serve client needs without…
Electric air taxis are about to take flight in 26 states | TechCrunch
The federal government has selected eight proposals to test electric aircraft across 26 states.
What’s the Point of a Drop When Everything’s a Drop?
How shopping became a game of snagging mediocre, limited-run products
Generally speaking, a drop is just a slightly different way of releasing products.
and to prioritize avoiding loss over gaining rewards
Beyond border-radius: What The CSS corner-shape Property Unlocks For Everyday UI — Smashing Magazine
For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of `border-radius`, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round corners. The new `corner-shape` property finally changes that, opening the door to beveled, scooped, and…
How to Design Antibodies
A step-by-step guide to making de novo binders.
Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering · Changelog
Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.
Designing AI Chip Software and Hardware
Designing AI Chip Hardware and Software Bjarke Hammersholt Roune 2026 This document is, for now, open for comments. You can use the Google Docs comment feature to add comments anywhere. Thanks! What is this document? I was going to start an AI chip company and this document…
Billion-Parameter Theories
We assumed good theories are small. But the minimum viable compression of a complex system might be billions of parameters large.
Chomsky showed that all human languages share deep recursive structure.
Elegant equations might not exist for complex systems.
Serval's Path to Product-Market Fit — Win Enterprise Buyers by Treating Them Like Consumers
Notes from an AI founder taking a swing at a hundred-billion-dollar incumbent.
How to Create a systemd Service File in Linux
Create a systemd service file in Linux with step-by-step instructions for unit file structure, service types, restart policies, and service management with systemctl.
su Cheatsheet
Quick reference for switching users and running commands with su in Linux
How the blues brought musical journeyman Raphael Saadiq to the Oscars
The singer-songwriter and producer has had one of the more distinguished and multifaceted careers in modern music. He talks about following an unconventional path from Tony! Toni! Toné! to Sinners.
What Working as a Mailman in Appalachia Revealed About Public Service
A new book describes the challenges and joys of life as a letter carrier.
The Value of z-index | CSS-Tricks
How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices.