Shout out to Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney on their big number proof
The proof is in the… inputting?
The Microlino
It’s like Brum but for the 21st century. And Italian.
Jay Hoffmann on the significance of a ‘cool URL’ and how link rot is affecting them: Links give greater meaning to our webpages. Without the link, we would lose this significant grammatical tool native the web.
TIL: PS3 clusters were used as cost-effective supercomputer networks
If you had a couple of million dollars in the late 00s, you could have built a supercomputer of your own.
Is there an ocean on Mimas, Saturn's moon?
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
Aerial views of Iceland's glacier rivers
Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
The geometric distributions of Pokémon
If you wanted to know the maths behind the catches, here’s your chance.
Max Woolf on the 'super effectiveness' of Pokémon embeddings using JSON and images
It’s a whole new world we live in!
For Capital B, Adam Mahoney wrote a piece on the cultural, financial, and environmental threats to Black communities coming from electric vehicle manufacture: The manufacturing hubs placements are intended to increase the pathway toward the middle class for Black folks, but the unintended consequence is the disruption of Black life in these places.
Induction heating, powered by magnets
You spin me right ’round, baby, right ’round like 40 magnets right ’round, ’round ’round!
The Schlörwagen
The little German car that couldn’t.
Scientific American examined the origins of Student’s T-test, created by William Sealy Gosset: The theory underlying these perennial questions in the domain of small sample sizes hadn’t been developed until Guinness came on the scene […]
JSTOR Daily on the ongoing race to build the tallest building in the world
Don’t look down!
Ars Technica discussed neutrinos and their importance despite our difficulty in understanding how they work: Somehow, neutrinos went from just another random particle to becoming tiny monsters that require multi-billion-dollar facilities to understand.
Practical Engineering lists every type of bridge in 15 minutes
They’re all good, truss me.
WIRED on Perplexity AI as a ‘bullshit machine’
Perplexity indeed!
Magazine photos fooled age-verification cameras in Japan
Foiled by a glossy mag.
Elise Cutts explored the mysteries of how water freezes for Quanta Magazine: For a process that’s anything but exotic, ice nucleation remains surprisingly mysterious. Chemists can’t reliably predict the effect of a given impurity or surface, let alone design one to hinder or promote ice formation.
Wiby – a search engine for lovers of the old Web
What is Wiby and why should you use it?
Espírito Santo blind snake
It’s just a small snek boi/gal