Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England’s ‘piecemeal’ right to roam laws
Hundreds of people campaigning for the right to roam in England are to descend on Dartmoor in an effort to highlight the limitations of the country’s system. More than 90 years since the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, which helped establish the principle of the right to roam in the UK, organisers say England’s partial […]
Private company landing on the moon today
Odysseus completed its scheduled 408-second main engine lunar orbit insertion burn and is currently in a 92 km circular lunar orbit. Initial data indicates the 800 m/s burn was completed within 2 m/s accuracy. After traveling over 1,000,000 km, Odysseus is now closer to the Moon than the end-to-end distance driving across Space City, […]
Mathematical Foundations of Joy
Mathematical foundations of Joy by Manfred von Thun Abstract: Joy is a functional programming language which is not based on the application of functions to arguments but on the composition of functions. This paper describes the theoretical basis of the language. The denotation of Joy programs maps a syntactic monoid of program concatenation to a […]
Knots on Mars (and a few thoughts on NASA’s knots) (2012)
(NOTE: All photographic images below can be clicked to view at higher resolution.) In the last few days some of the first high resolution color images of Mars Rover Curiosity’s deck have been taken. These included some of the best images yet showing the knots visible on the exposed wire and cable bundles. While a […]
The Fossil Sync Protocol
This document describes the wire protocol used to synchronize content between two Fossil repositories. 1.0 Overview The global state of a fossil repository consists of an unordered collection of artifacts. Each artifact is identified by a cryptographic hash of its content, expressed as a lower-case hexadecimal string. Synchronization is the process of sharing artifacts between […]
YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen’s latest report
Nielsen today released its January report on viewing usage across linear TV and streaming, which revealed that YouTube is once again the overall top streaming service in the U.S., with 8.6% of viewing on television screens. Netflix, meanwhile, saw 7.9% of TV usage. The new data points to YouTube’s dominance in the TV streaming arena […]
What went wrong at Techstars
tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. + Techstars recently announced a string of executive departures and program closures – including termination of the Seattle program, one of its oldest and most successful. + Despite similar beginnings, Techstars chose a different strategic […]
A Python Library to 6-7x the inference speed of your HF models
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Things Unexpectedly Named After People
July 19, 2020 An incomplete and infuriating list. A few additions that others have suggested: Even more, after this made the rounds again in 2024: Unfortunately, Rocket Lab does not seem to be named after seed investor/aerospace entrepreneur Mark Rocket.
ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You
Explore There are three fundamental rules of humor. Unfortunately, no one can remember what they are. We can probably blame the Greek philosopher Aristotle for this because he apparently wrote an entire book on laughter, which was then lost. His mistake was not to write on tablets of stone. They are harder to lose, but […]