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A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file - desgeeko/pdfsyntax

Nature - A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity.

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

Announcement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and description of the new data on AI use in occupations

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

UNSW researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth’s most remote and fragile continent.

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago.

Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms).
This is a variety of yak-shave that I do somewhat routinely, both professionally…

Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.

Audio transcript There are some readers here who will understand the import of the statement above and not believe it, and there are others who are not in a position to understand it all. For both …

Extract any data from any website with just a prompt

Back in 2020, when I worked in the supply chain side of Google, I had a fun and impactful side project related to human-level explanations of linear programs.
A linear program is a mathematical model that defines some number of variables, linear constraints…

New research reveals Google's reCAPTCHA system primarily serves as a tracking tool, generating billions in revenue while offering minimal protection against bots.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.