The new season of Survivor airs next week. My favorite thing about watching Survivor is arguing about the strategy of the show: who should have won the season? Is it better to play under the radar? Or does making big moves set you up to win?…

Blog of the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence. On this blog we show pictures of interesting structures related to our research in the STRUCTURES Cluster, and we give you an idea what they are, how they come about, and why they fascinate us.

A working catalogue of twelve open problems in biology — each a concrete, testable target for the field.

This paper analyzes the amount of source code in GNU/Linux, using Red Hat Linux 7.1 as a representative GNU/Linux distribution.

Finding a NAS that provides NVMe and SATA storage while being tiny enough to sit in my 10" rack, have a CPU that’s not hogging, use a small amount of watts and offers usage of a non-proprietary OS is not simple.…

A dead man's switch for cronjobs. Your job pings a URL when it finishes; if the ping doesn't arrive, sigabrt emails you.

Google nagged me into this, along with every other enshittified cloud ~~provider~~ dealer. For about a year, my phone warned me that the account was nearly…

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io. Contribute to emergingrobotics/gorai development by creating an account on GitHub.

Singapore's ReadSG program pays citizens virtual coins for logging daily reading time, aiming to curb phone use through small financial nudges.

Laya on Mac m4 CoreML Offline. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Radius is a modern Meetup alternative for local groups, events and activities. Find people with shared interests, join what they are doing nearby, or start your own community.

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OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then sent to OpenAI from ordinary websites you visit.…

Running a business in Woburn and doing market research from scratch? The Woburn Public Library's Small Business Resource Center covers accounting, finance, marketing, tax and HR, organised around four stages: plan, fund, start, manage.…

A weird historical mystery/logic puzzle based in Tucson Arizona. Very complex. Very frustrating.

ECHO is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal that exists to share creative work and understanding in the common space at the intersection of music, thought and technology.

Rasterization is the process of determining the color of every pixel drawn by an application. Powerful rasterization libraries like Skia, CoreGraphics, and Direct2D put exceptional effort into drawing, blending, and rendering efficiently.…

Tools for generating deep fake photographs are proliferating with greater ease of use and prominence in pop culture. Image authentication tools can defeat these deceitful developments by verifying that a digital image was actually produced by a physical…

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death, sometimes providing compensation to bereaved families.

For a while there in the early 1990s, there seemed to be good reason to believe that Lemmings was on its way to becoming one of gaming’s perennial franchises.…

NumPy on Emscripten-forge now links OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, with large speedups for matmul and linear algebra in the browser.

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters in a quest to find the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

Which model wins at Brood War? Results, recordings, costs, and game-by-game analysis of Codex, Claude, and Grok across 171 matches.

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