From California to Cairo, none of the films that featured my country, Libya, could step out of an Orientalist vision of camels, belly dancers, an endless desert and, of course, our iconic “Brother Leader.”

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.
There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think.

Opinion: Service members need the tools, parts and authority to make immediate fixes themselves, without having to navigate red tape

GPS coordinates aren’t exact. Sensor readings have noise. User behavior is probabilistic. Yet we write code that pretends uncertainty doesn’t exist, forcing messy real-world data through clean Boolean logic.

A nearly complete collection of prefix sum algorithms implemented in CUDA, D3D12, Unity and WGPU. Theoretically portable to all wave/warp/subgroup sizes. - GitHub - b0nes164/GPUPrefixSums: A nearl...

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A Standford study has found evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of early career workers.

The sisters paradox in probability theory

How to build a CLI coding agent

Frederick's delirious rants

Folie a deux ex machina

Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.