Trying
What are the true limits to motivation? The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy Maciej Cegłowski Student: How can one realize his Self-nature? I know so little about the subject. Yasutani: First of all, you must be convinced you can […]
“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain
This case involves Project Bluebird, a social media service previously named “twitter.new” and renamed to tweet.app immediately after this ruling (for reasons this post makes obvious). Project Bluebird’s service is designed to reimagine the Twitter service that Musk imploded when he morphed Twitter into X. Project Bluebird claims X has abandoned the TWITTER, TWEET and […]
The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (via) Impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a $1,000,000 prize since May 24th, 2000. The discovery is somewhat overshadowed by accusations of skulduggery […]
A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare’s Technology (Part 1)
Cloudflare’s rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few examples, and it was CTO and co-founder Lee Holloway who created these mechanisms. However, he was forced to step down due to a serious brain disease (FTD). This article […]
The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing?
This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays. Americans—well, the kind who read books or newsletters about books—are well-versed in the challenges with literacy and education that have stretched on for decades. Rather, today we’re tackling the multi-year, fairly rapid—at least relative to book industry speed—radical change that book […]
Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
As a leading researcher on suicide, Matthew K. Nock knows the subject’s grim statistics by heart. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for Americans aged 10 to 34, trailing only accidents. It claims more lives around the world each year than war, genocide, homicide, and all other violence combined. And 50 percent of people who […]
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A Topological Picture Book, Rendered
Hand-hatched surfaces after the mid-century manner of Francis, Apéry, Hilbert–Cohn-Vossen. Drag to turn the model freely (shift-drag to roll it); scroll to approach. Sources & method The drawing is made of strokes, not pixels. Silhouettes are the zero set of n·v on the mesh (found with interpolated normals, so they chain into smooth curves), boundaries […]
How to build a printer
I was planning to build an e-ink display when I came across the Xteink X3 online. Somewhere in the fine print, it said the thing was fully programmable. I was sold. When it arrived, I liked how flat it was. It felt solid in my hand. I started adding things to the CrossPoint firmware: a […]
Mercury 2.5
Today, we’re releasing Mercury 2.5, our most capable production model yet. It is a significant step up in quality over Mercury 2, with the same low-latency, low-cost serving profile. Since Mercury 2’s launch, thousands of developers have built with it, dozens of enterprises have put it into production, and usage has grown over an order […]