Codename: Jimmy

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Or: Bring Back the APL Keyboard.

Dark matter is one of the most discussed topics in popular science, often framed with the clickbait: "Was Einstein Wrong?"

Diagrams are amazing—whether it’s a signal flow diagram, UML, or an electronics schematic.

If you are reading this, you probably know how to multiply two matrices together, but if you haven’t taken a Linear Algebra course, you might not realize that that is just one way to do it.

Ghost has its ActivityPub integration in (private) beta!

"Why are LLMs so good at summarization tasks?"

"...extending a prompt with a controlled, often zero, amount of additional random entropy per symbol."

This blog is made possible partly thanks to a modern large language model, but not in the way you might think.

I first saw this kind of chart in a nice www.edwardtufte.com forum thread about project management charts.

Every so often, the DCQE (Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser) makes the rounds on various internet places.

My hack used walking a Hilbert Curve to order the border crossings of the circles used to denote each tree's sun-collecting area and then building work lists that grow (pun intended!)

Yes, but my solution nearly breaks my own rules about Euler integration, and the contrived ways ray marching figures out which surface is intersected creates quite a mess.

At a high level, the specification or requirements for a project can often be distilled into a single question of the form “How do I get X, without Y, ignoring Z”.

Hi, my name's Ian McEwan.