This hard-hitting blogpost by Ken Murray, a retired Los Angeles family doctor, helped open up discussions about why doctors routinely administer treatments to dying patients that they would adamantly refuse for themselves. Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopaedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore
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Cells often perform computations in response to environmental cues. A simple example is the classic problem, first considered by Berg and Purcell, of determining the concentration of a chemical ligand in the surrounding media. On general theoretical grounds (Landuer's Principle), it is expected that such computations require cells to…
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What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) - grok-build-cli-wire-analysis.md
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Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea.
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Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma
Read full story ↗The Goeteia homepage renders itself: its Scheme source is compiled to WebAssembly in your browser and mounted live. Edit the source, press Run, and the page below re-renders.
Read full story ↗Igropyr: crashes heal themselves, code hot-swaps, faults speak a protocol, and dialogues are processes. Erlang-style actors on libuv, written entirely in Chez Scheme.
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Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and share prices soar. Yet, supporting their growth is extremely expensive, and neoclouds do not have the same cash nor operating cash flow profiles of Big Tech. This is leading neoclouds to employ unique and circular financing structures, raising some red flags.
Read full story ↗I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At…
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Kelsey Pfendler set out to become first US woman, youngest woman and fastest woman to solo over 2,400-mile journey
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Run real npm packages and TypeScript - all from a single 9 MB binary. Ant is a lightweight JavaScript runtime built from scratch on its own engine, with a Node-compatible API, a VM-isolated…
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An anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models. Type your text below, then download and share the video clip containing your message.
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Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before…
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How controlled disturbances of electricity, light, and radio, cooperatively routed across a web of independent networks, deliver data across the world in milliseconds.
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PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with…
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