Higher Multipoles of the Cow

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2504.00506: Higher multipoles of the cow

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

Wendell Berry has died

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.

Holden's Lightning Flight

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

Preview of Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine to all lazy queries

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

When three teenagers glimpsed what others dismissed as plant disease, they saw a path to solving agriculture's nitrogen problem—and the scientific establishment's skepticism only made them dig deeper.

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

LLMs and Self-Referentiality

I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when young was that the secret of intelligence (and therefore, of AI) was going to have a lot to do with self-referentiality and “strange loops.”…

What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026)

My mom and I had a daily practice for many years: We would exchange gratitude emails.

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format

The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimization"? For most of us it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

worlds via code, from fable 5.1. Contribute to PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds development by creating an account on GitHub.

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

Muse Spark 1.3

Trained for agentic workflows and optimized for competitive coding performance.

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

Aging brains may mix memories up, not just lose them, replaying experiences too broadly to keep the details straight.

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.