4B If Statements
I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation. Now, in a world where AI is replacing programmers by the minute, taking their jobs […]
HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers
Accessibility barriers in research are not new, but they are urgent. The message we have heard from our community is that arXiv can have the most impact in the shortest time by offering HTML papers alongside the existing PDF. arXiv has successfully launched papers in HTML format. We are gradually backfilling HTML for arXiv’s corpus […]
Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Welcome to The Core Project – Tiny Core Linux The Core Project is a highly modular based system with community build extensions. It starts with a recent Linux kernel, vmlinuz, and our root filesystem and start-up scripts packaged with a basic set of kernel modules in core.gz. Core (11MB) is simply the kernel + core.gz […]
Touching the Elephant – TPUs
Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit Reed December 1, 2025 Something New There is mythological reverence for Google’s Tensor Processing Unit. While the world presently watches NVIDIA’s gravity drag more companies into its orbit, there sits Google, imperial and singular. Lots of companies participate in the “Cambrian-style explosion of new-interesting accelerators”[14] – Groq, Amazon, and Tenstorrent come […]
‘Life being stressful is not an illness’ – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
3 hours ago ShareSave Catherine Burns,Health correspondent, Vicki Loader,Health producerand Harriet Agerholm ShareSave Getty Images Hundreds of GPs across England have told the BBC they think mental health problems are being over-diagnosed. One commonly-held view by family doctors, our research suggests, is that society tends to over-medicalise normal life stresses. But they’re also concerned about […]
Cryptids
Lovecraftian Beaver fan art made by Lauren Cryptids are Turing Machines whose behavior (when started on a blank tape) can be described completely by a relatively simple mathematical rule, but where that rule falls into a class of unsolved (and presumed hard) mathematical problems. This definition is somewhat subjective (What counts as a simple rule? […]
Autism’s Confusing Cousins
“I think that these days what we mean by “autism” is basically “weird person disease.”” Sorbie Richner, Rich Girl Rehab “Accurate diagnosis requires consideration of multiple diagnoses. Sometimes, different diagnoses can overlap with one another and can only be differentiated in subtle and nuanced ways, but particular diagnoses vary considerably in levels of public awareness. […]
Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
Where and when Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025 in the JAG3 classroom of the Faculty of Mathematics, at Jagićeva 5, Belgrade. Entry to the classroom is possible from 6 pm to 9 pm. Jagićeva street is located between the Pijaca Đeram station where trams 5, 6, 7L and 14 stop, […]
Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
I was reading The Free Press (thefp.com) from London and an article was automatically blocked to ensure conformance with the UK Online Safety Act. I thought the site was broken. It took a few minutes to diagnose the problem. 15 minutes later I had Mullvad installed and was back online. Talk about unintended consequences. How […]
Wolfram Compute Services
To immediately enable Wolfram Compute Services in Version 14.3 Wolfram Desktop systems, run RemoteBatchSubmissionEnvironment[“WolframBatch”]. (The functionality is automatically available in the Wolfram Cloud.) Scaling Up Your Computations Let’s say you’ve done a computation in Wolfram Language. And now you want to scale it up. Maybe 1000x or more. Well, today we’ve released an extremely streamlined […]