'What?' - Richard Nixon

Albertsons uses land use restrictions in Mammoth, CA to stop competition so it can be the only store in town.

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by

In this short post I have some fun with Amazon Q Developer and get it to write code that runs on my virtual Commodore 64

This study presents the methodology for creating a cost-efficient radio astronomy telescope that can be used to detect 21 cm emissions (1420.405 MHz) and determine the distribution and kinematics...

An essay about technological interventions, and the birth and loss of child.

A primer on GPU architecture and computing

Treating anxiety, depression and other disorders may depend on the amygdala, a part of the brain that controls strong emotional reactions, especially fear. But a deep understanding of this structure has been lacking. Now scientists at the University of California…

Nvidia and its partners built a sophisticated system to bypass U.S. restrictions on exporting AI chips to the Middle East, Russia, and China.

The sophisticated system worked as follows: any GPUs that needed to be delivered to China or to serve Chinese companies…

The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.

The handling of widowed headings across pages in Apple Books is of particular concern. Since 1997, CSS has had properties to handle this, and yet browsers including Safari and Firefox still don’t support them – why not?

In early modern England, numbers were something you could touch. On tally-sticks and abacuses, counting boards and...

This is part 4 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details cultural differences and things I wasn’t aware of until I stumbled on them.
Politics One thing about Germany, and Europe in general…

With home prices up nearly 40% since 2020, buyers are now wealthier and older, making them more likely to outbid younger buyers with all-cash offers.

Interesting new ability of the OpenAI API - the first time I've seen this from any vendor. If you know your prompt is mostly going to return the same content …

“Maintaining low blood sugar levels, even within the normal range, shows promise for preserving a younger brain, especially when combined with a healthy diet and regular physical activity.

Stephen Edwards, captain of the 58.6m Perini Navi built Seahawk, was previously Captain from 2015 to 2020 for the 56m Perini Navi Bayesian which sank

Inspired by biological systems, evolutionary algorithms model the patterns of multi-generational evolution in order to unearth unique ideas. They work by generating a vast number of potential solutions to a particular problem and then pitting them against…