Text, footage and photographs by Dr. Klaus M. Stiefel A long time ago, as an enthusiastic young, naive graduate student I went to a conference, which was just... #cephalopod #civilization #cuttlefish

The vaccine and antibiotics available to treat tuberculosis have curbed cases, but more innovations are needed to halt its spread and counteract antibiotic resistance.

A look into the chord-naming algorithm used in chordcat

“They just kicked everybody out.”

LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation for imagination enhancement and business insights. - microsoft/TinyTroupe

Through Boeing Wonderland's clever visual trickery, vital West Coast warplane plants were made invisible to prying enemy aerial eyes.

A timely update of an informative chart

Researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) are collaborating with colleagues from Frankfurt/Main, Oxford and Würzburg to investigate how the complex, cooperative behavior of honeybees ...

Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why did the first one fail — and will the other endure?

Building Surfgrad, a high-performant, WebGPU-powered autograd library

As streaming services delete their own films and DVDs of classics go out of print, some of cinema’s most interesting movies are illegal to watch. Should you do it?

Vector embeddings by themselves are pretty neat. Binary quantized vector embeddings are extra impressive. In short, they can retain 95+% retrieval accuracy with 32x compression 🤯.

A four-decade quest to bring the quagga back is being heralded as a success, but not everyone is impressed

In this special episode of Book Overflow, Brian Kernighan once again joins Carter and Nathan, this time to discuss his book Unix: A History and a Memoir. Join them as Brian recounts what it was like working at Bell Labs, how it feels to have contributed so…

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An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!

Hello! This will be a first attempt at coming back to writing some blog posts about interesting topics I end up rabbitholing about. All the older stuff has been sadly lost to time (and “time” here mostly means a bad squarespace website).