Making cultural heritage more accessible with AI 

Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one…

Database queries are a pretty surprisingly powerful tool that can solve seemingly intractable problems.

Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.

The divisive yet beloved liquor, once available only in Chicago, has gained devotees nationally. Can it retain its roots?

Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark expressions) - dbohdan/recur

The HS2 high-speed rail line was supposed to re-energize the UK. Instead, controversy, astronomical costs and downsizing have left it struggling for support.

AlphaQubit is an AI-based decoder that identifies quantum computing errors with state-of-the-art accuracy.

Yesterday, Prusa Research officially unveiled their next printer, the Core ONE. Going over the features and capabilities of this new machine, it’s clear that Prusa has kept a close eye on the…

At Niantic, we are pioneering the concept of a Large Geospatial Model that will use large-scale machine learning to understand a scene and connect it to millions of other scenes globally.

If you’ve noticed strange sites on “Best” product searches, so has Google.

Hi all! I'm starting a new article series here. This one is going to be about Unix utilities that you should know about. The articles will discuss one Unix program at a time. I'll try to write a good introduction to the tool and give as many examples as I…

From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio walk through the performance optimizations Antonio when working on Zed's Rope data structure before they then pair on adding more optimizations

Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe.

Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.

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The Kessler syndrome is a scenario where, if too many collisions occur between pieces of space debris, low earth orbit will…

Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak

A U of A team that set out to study why a side-effect of drugs like Ozempic is the loss of skeletal muscle found that other types of muscle, such as cardiac muscle, are also decreased in response to Ozempic — leading them to conclude that if Ozempic also…

A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library.