Albert Einstein used to say that he went to his office at the Institute for Advanced Study “just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Gödel.” The two would meet at Einstein’s home each day between 10 and 11 and undertake the half-hour walk to the…

Smaller programs that do less work.

A path to continued model improvement.

I regularly hear or read statements like this: “X is slow but this is to be expected because it needs to do a lot of work”. It can be said about an application or a component in a larger system, and can refer to other resources that aren’t time. I often find…

Chrome extension to block images on webpages with a simple click. The extension helps reduce distractions and improve page load times by controlling when images are displayed. - kirill-markin/chrom...

Before QWERTY, engineers had a wealth of ingenious and strange designs for inputting Chinese characters. This adapted book excerpt takes us back to the 1960s and 70s and looks at the efforts to connect China to the digital world at the time.

Multi-Array Queue program codes. Contribute to MultiArrayQueue/MultiArrayQueue development by creating an account on GitHub.

Increased neuron growth in the hippocampus through exercise or genetic approaches helps mice forget strong, maladaptive memories, raising the promise of new PTSD or drug addiction treatments.

When it comes to slumber, what matters most is how rich you are.

The initial social contract that created loyalty was broken by the employers, not employees.

The cloth sim is live on the App Store now (for free) on on Lungy: Spaces v1.2:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6470201263

Lungy (https://www.lungy.app) for iOS is available here: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1545223887

My latest clock project has been the longest and most challenging to complete. There have been times when I’ve been tempted to can it or thought I’d reached a dead-end but persevered. I had to keep reminding myself that I do these projects primarily for the…

Manifest is an Open Source Portable Backend that fits into a Single YAML file. It includes key features like Auth, Storage, CRUD, Endpoints...

The government of South Korea's capital Seoul found toxic substances in amounts hundreds of times above acceptable levels in children's products.