Attention Spans for Math and Stories (2019)
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published in 2019. I have made minor edits in this...
What the hell is an elliptic curve?
Have you ever been browsing the web and come across a term that made you go,...
Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack, featuring Slirp-CK
I had this grand idea many moons ago about writing up a TCP/IP stack for the...
The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration
The people who are most skeptical of AI are often those with the highest standards for...
Sparsely-Gated Mixture of Experts (MoE)
April 18, 2025 at 09:33 Tags Math , Machine Learning , Python In transformer models, the...
Preserving Ireland's Bogs– Memory, Identity, and the Path Forward
I reland’s bogs are more than landscapes; they are living archives of history, memory, and cultural...
100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)
The integral of sec(x) is well known to any beginners calculus student. Yet this integral was...
British rebellion against Roman legions caused by drought, research finds
A series of exceptionally dry summers that caused famine and social breakdown were behind one of...
Can We Trust CVE?
If you are a security nerd, and even if you’re not, you probably heard about the...
Ultrathink is a Claude Code a magic word
Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding (via) Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to...
A unique sound alleviates motion sickness
A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of...
A better Microsoft Account bypass for Windows 11 has been discovered
(Image credit: Future) Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was removing a popular command line...
How to Force Your Kids to Do Math?
Well… you probably shouldn’t.This is my one rule: if my son ever says he doesn’t want...
Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues
You may not know it, but SSDs will lose data after a period of time if...
The Icelandic Voting System
It’s election season here in Iceland! The election is on Saturday, 30th of November, so next...
Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
“Move faster and break even more things.” That twist on Silicon Valley’s old mantra echoes through...
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death
In the late 1600s, self-made scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek embarked on a project that would make...
An Image of the Australian Desert Illuminates Satellite Pollution
In January 2021, Joshua Rozells ventured out into the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, intending to...
Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname
This bug is publicly visible. User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,...
Consistent Hash Ring
Consistent Hashing Ring is a special hashing algorithm primarily used for data distribution and load balancing...
Inside ArXiv
On the library’s side, some people thought Ginsparg was too hands-on. Others said he wasn’t patient...
