A little essay on the amusement or horror that may bring to learn that both test and [ are binaries on your typical Unix system, and that [[ is subject to completely different rules.

Signs and symbols on the sides of ships tell stories about an industry few outsiders understand.

Have you considered writing documentation for your house?

As with the best science fiction, Lem’s novel “The Invincible” has as much to teach us about our present situations as any futures we may face.

Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.

A significant step towards removing language barriers through expressive, fast and high-quality AI translation

Join me as we take a look at common application data patterns, and how they relate to the inner-workings of databases. In this post, we discuss data caching, indexing, optimistic mutations, and recursive cache invalidation. We will see how life might be easier…

A groundbreaking study by Mass Eye and Ear associates tinnitus with undetected auditory nerve damage, challenging previous beliefs and opening new paths for treatment through auditory nerve regeneration. A new study from Mass Eye and Ear investigators reveals…

Tiny volumetric display

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.

Gemini 3 is our most intelligent model yet. With state-of-the-art reasoning to help you learn, build, and plan anything.

What is Sound ID?


Today we announced one of our biggest breakthroughs—Sound ID, a new feature in the Merlin Bird ID app—and a major leap forward in sound identification and machine learning

just had the weirdest experience

was watching an X-files episode & there’s this country song playing in the background of the bar they’re in

& it’s so good it jars me out of my idle multitasking to Shazam it

except

The FDA has approved the world’s first medicine based on CRISPR gene-editing technology, a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease.

Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.