“The old Paris is no more. The form of a city changes more quickly, alas, than a mortal’s heart.” Is this still true? Baudelaire published his classic lines in 1857, a few years after Louis-Napoleon and Baron Haussmann began their massive reconstruction of…

Innovative tech lead from the Netherlands who likes to push the web beyond its limits.

Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!

Stanford said Friday that it will again require undergraduate applicants to submit an...

Scipress is a platform geared towards technical writers, enabling them to write, share, and optionally sell access to content.

A new study by Dr Richard Lieu of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) challenges our understanding of gravity, potentially offering an alternative explanation for dark matter.

LSP-AI is an open-source language server that serves as a backend for AI-powered functionality, designed to assist and empower software engineers, not replace them. - SilasMarvin/lsp-ai

Using an odd floating point error to detect emulators

In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC) in Spain present a new record-holder for the largest ...

Reflections on whatever I'm thinking about that week (the web, culture, computer graphics, math etc)

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Mathematicians show that graphs of a certain common type must contain a route that visits each point exactly once.

I am an advocate of regenerative farming . But I’m not a farmer myself. The piece of land I steward is 1/3 acre — still sizable for an urban lot, but laughably minuscule compared to what Real Farmers are working with.

The Edo-period pursuit of wasan, Japan’s domestic tradition of tackling mathematical problems, was one involving samurai and commoners, young and old alike. Historical records reveal that women and teens were taking on difficult problems well before Japan…

The women of ancient Rome took to the streets in protest in 195 BC. It was a striking manifestation of their power in what was a rigidly patriarchal society.