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I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
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Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins
New evidence suggests anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—a risk that persists even in relatively healthy people long after the illness has passed.
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Why don't more languages offer flow typing?
A brief survey of where flow typing does and doesn't fit, and when it may play a role in other languages.
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Gemini is a little gem
AndreGarzia.com website
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How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts
One of the biggest causes of layout shifts for my clients is late-loading web fonts, let's look at how to optimise them!
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Electric fields, not individual neurons, may hold information in memory: study
A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons
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The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers
Explicit > Implicit
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Detecting Monero Miners with Bpftrace
Pixie Blog
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How do you power a rocket engine?
This article discusses different types of rocket engine cycles, from pressure-fed through gas generator, to full-flow staged combustion.
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Planning is for doing
Welcome from Hacker News!
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REPL Driven Minecraft
A tale of optimization during the ClojureD Minecraft workshop
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Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273)
I’m continuing my coverage of dangerous Internet bills in the California legislature. This job is especially challenging during an election year, when legislators rally behind the “protect the kids” mantra to pursue bills that are likely to hurt, or at...
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5G Skeptic
When I was working at AWS, around 2017 we started getting excited pitches from companies who wanted to be part of the 5G build-out, saying that obviously there’d be lots of opportunities for public-cloud providers. But I never walked away convinced. Either I didn’t believe the supposed customers really needed what 5G…
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The AI Unbundling
AI is starting to unbundle the final part of the idea propagation value chain: idea creation and substantiation. The impacts will be far-reaching.
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Ev Williams to step down from Medium
Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO…
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How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives
The average is a myth. Understand the pitfalls of the average and how it can conceal useful information. How the US Air Force threw out the average and saved lives. Use distributions to better understand your data.
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Everything we're told about website identity assurance is wrong
I have a vehement dislike for misleading advertising. We see it every day; weight loss pills, make money fast schemes and if you travel in the same circles I do, claims that extended validation (EV) certificates actually do something useful: > Why are you still claiming this @digicert [https://twitter.com/
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Do simpler machine learning models exist and how can we find them?
The above is the title of a talk by computer scientist Cynthia Rudin. here’s the abstract:
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How Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
Mixed appraisals of one of the Internet’s great friends (or foes), Wikipedia, are reflected in the slightly dystopian article “List of Wikipedia Scandals”, which sits below a Wikipedia web address. Scrutiny aside, billions of users routinely flock to the online, anonymously editable encyclopedia knowledge bank for…
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Help Censored Users – Run a Tor Bridge
Today the Tor Project is launching the Run a Tor Bridge campaign. Participants are invited to contribute and help censored users by running a Tor bridge. You can find more details below, including our special reward kits for participants. The campaign will run from November 17 to January 7, 2022. Join us and help…
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On being tired
What happens when your mental battery gets drained & how I've personally experienced this in recent times.
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Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide
What’s worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan? Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? One reader’s nightmare experience spotlights what can happen when ID…
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What we learned in studying the most effective founders
The Google for Startups Effective Founders Project dives deep into the leadership strategies of the most successful startups around the world.
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What can we learn from leaked Insyde's BIOS for Intel Alder Lake
Leaked story timeline According to the timestamp of the github repository, an unidentified user uploaded the Insyde’s partial firmware solution (4.