Crossbeam CEO and co-founder Bob Moore shares his tools for quashing biases in pursuit of the truth at every stage of company building.
openness to — and active pursuit of — the truth, even when it proves you wrong.
partnerships ecosystem platform
Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it. Note: I communicated with the Bluesky team prior to the publishing of this post. While the functionality described is not the intended use of the application, it…
For a decade, Google Research has helped advance nuclear energy R&D
Baltz and his team developed the optometrist algorithm.
TAE is now building a new and bigger machine called Copernicus, with a goal of achieving energy breakeven
(The following is an update of a post that originally ran on 6 December 2013. It was republished in 2024 as a part of a series on The Memory Guy blog to honor the 3D NAND inventors who have received the 2024 FMS Lifetime Achievement Award.) A very unusual side effect of the move…
Several of the initial development partners balk at the terms of a federal tax credit that places restrictions on the amount of carbon in the hydrogen production process.
The Polaris explorer Charles Francis Hall has long been rumoured to have been poisoned in 1872. A preserved snow bunting might be crucial evidence for the theory
The following entry is a record in the “Catalogue of Catastrophe” - a list of failed or troubled projects from around the world. Airbus SAS - France Project name : A380 Project type : Commercial aircraft development Date : Dec 2000 - Oct 2007 Cost : $6.
Identify relevant subspaces: subsets of features that allow you to most effectively perform outlier detection on tabular data
Your ultimate Paper Club Starter Kit, from your friends at the Latent Space Paper Club, where we have now read 100 papers. Also: Announcing Latent Space Paper Club LIVE! at Neurips 2024! Join us!
A guide to the operating principles, techniques and technology in lidar systems.
cost thousands of dollars, and that number needs to drop by at least an order of magnitude
Wavelength
There’s a right and wrong way to proceed. Here’s how to increase the chances your leader listens and takes action--while reducing the chance they feel threatened.
Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries
A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks, a causality tracking mechanism, based on a lightening talk I gave at dotScale 2017.
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silico...
The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.
Warp does have a bit of a learning curve, but once you get how it works, you will find it to be terminal nirvana.
Comcast’s spinoff of its properties signals the accelerating decline of traditional TV—and a brutal reckoning for the media industry in the new Trump era.
Intel was a dominant leader in the CPU market for the better part of a decade, but AMD has seen massive success in recent years thanks to its Ryzen chips.
Intel's first Arc B580 GPUs based on the Xe2 "Battlemage" architecture have been leaked & they look quite compelling.
A combination of classical search and machine learning may be the way forward
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as…
Cheat sheet to learn Tailwind CSS quickly. Browse and search all Tailwind utility classes or CSS properties on one page.
An introduction to the main techniques and latest models
BM25 is a widely used algorithm for full text search. I wanted to understand how it works, so here is my attempt at understanding by re-explaining.
can I compare the BM25 scores of documents across multiple queries to determine which query the document best matches?
goal of a full text search algorithm is to take a query and find the most relevant documents
US scientists made a breakthrough in fusion energy, discovering a new fuel mix that could improve efficiency and reduce tritium reliance.
This is a repo with links to everything you'd ever want to learn about data engineering - DataExpert-io/data-engineer-handbook
Ever feel like you can’t say no? Like you’re constantly doing things you don’t want to to avoid letting others down or having them think less of you? You’re not alone. Saying no to people’s requests is something I’ve had to work on throughout my adult life. I know a lot of other…
Some sentences just sound awkward. In order to ensure clarity, writers need to consider more than just grammar: weight is equally important. In the following extract from Making Sense, acclaimed linguist David Crystal shows how sentence length (and weight) affects writing…
What both these examples show is the importance of length, or weight.
Both illustrate the principle of end-weight.
In this article, we dive into how PyTorch’s Autograd engine performs automatic differentiation.
In the span of four decades, quantum computation has evolved from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realizable technology. Today, small-scale demonstrations have become possible for...
In a survey, nearly 60 percent of retailers said they had policies that refund customers for items that aren’t financially viable to send back.
Fifty-nine percent of retailers have keep-it policies for items that aren’t financially viable to ship back, according to a 2023 survey on holiday shopping trends by goTRG, now called ReturnPro, a firm that helps retailers including Walmart manage returns. Most companies don’t advertise the policy…
for every $1 billion in sales, the average retailer sustained $145 million in returns.
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are a powerful and versatile supervised machine learning algorithm primarily used for classification and regression tasks. They excel in high-dimensional spaces and are particularly effective when dealing with complex datasets. The core principle…
While Intel's primary product focus is on the processors, or brains, that make computers work, system memory (that's DRAM) is a critical component for performance. This is especially true in servers, where the multiplication of processing cores has outpaced the rise in memory…
Volunteers, not FEMA, are the bedrock of disaster response. How do we best support them?
Are they good or bad?
After 14 years with MailChimp, I decided to switch. I researched the top 26 email marketing tools to find a replacement and here’s what I discovered.
The 4680 battery was supposed to make EVs cheaper and better, but so far has proven to be more problematic than promising.
Web scraping has emerged as a crucial method for gathering data, allowing companies and researchers to extract insightful information from the abundance of publicly accessible online content. Selecting the best online scraping tool might be difficult because there are so many of…
Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.
Environment variables are not encrypted and therefore they can not be stored in any form of version control.
makes it easier to add new credentials because you don’t need to tell other developers to add them to their own .env file.
Table of Contents Understanding Environment Variables The printenv Command Working with set Command The export Command Using alias Command Practical Applications Your Turn! (Interactive Section) Best Practices and Common Pitfalls Quick Takeawa...
Shell Variables: Local variables that affect only the current shell session
Environment Variables: Global variables that can be accessed by all processes
A simple game shows how fear of regret shapes decisions.
Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.
We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a generator of new technology.
It’s time to take a comprehensive look at one of America’s most controversial plane crashes, and ask how it ended up that way.
A look at what you can do with this tool as well as some of its limitations in comparison to its rivals.
Cloud hosting has emerged as a key component for companies and developers seeking to expand their operations, improve performance, and guarantee strong data security in the current digital era. Selecting the best cloud service provider might be difficult because there are an…
What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.
Olive oil was revered and cherished by the ancients. But its distinctive peppery taste is really a modern invention