Kagi Sidekick (Alpha)
Kagi Sidekick (alpha) Add fast search with Kagi smarts and AI to your personal or documentation website with just a couple lines of code. We’ll sort out the hard stuff – indexing, embeddings, vector search, and AI chat with your pages. Just integrate with two lines of code using our lightweight Web Components (20kB min+gzip) […]
ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker
Demand for wafer fab equipment has been proliferating in recent years, which is why fab toolmakers’ revenues have also been setting records. As it turns out, last year, ASML became the world’s largest maker of fab tools, dethroning Applied Materials, which was a leader for decades, as observed by analyst Dan Nystedt. While this is hardly […]
An asteroid wiped out dinosaurs – did it help birds flourish?
Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Gulf of Mexico. The catastrophe led to the extinction of as many as three-quarters of all species on Earth, including dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex. But some […]
Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours
Tim February 20, 2024, 8:53pm 1 This website makes it seem like this “public” dataset is for the community to use, but it is instead a for-profit money maker for Google Cloud and you can lose tens of thousands of dollars. Last week I ran a script on BigQuery for historical HTTP Archive data and […]
Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle
tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last. This post turned out longer than I expected. So if you […]
RGB K-D Tree
Description Pixels are recursively filtered into random axis-aligned binary partitions based on brightness (30*R + 59*G + 11*B). Partitions are rotated at each level. There’s a bug causing each split to create 3 instead 2 visually distinct regions, but at the end of the day, isn’t it just about making a cool-looking picture? Author Stats […]
LED Matrix Earrings
20 Feb 2024Progress: Complete I originally imagined the LED Industrial Piercing as a project specifically to make use of 0201 LEDs. In the end, they weren’t even necessary. 0201 LEDs are just too small! Evidently, we needed to go deeper, so the purpose of this next project was to stick as many as possible of […]
Study suggests a ‘dark mirror’ universe within ours where atoms failed to form
What if the world of dark matter was a mirror of our own, just with a broken set of rules? That might explain why dark matter appears to be so abundant yet invisible, a new theory suggests. Dark matter is the mysterious, unknown substance that seems to make up the bulk of all the mass […]
Saturn’s largest moon most likely uninhabitable
This image shows a flattened (Mercator) projection of the Huygens probe’s view of Saturn’s moon Titan from 10 kilometers altitude. The images that make up this view were taken on Jan. 14, 2005, with the descent imager/spectral radiometer onboard the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe. The Huygens probe was delivered to Titan by the Cassini […]
A response to “Erlang – overhyped or underestimated” (2010)
A response to “Erlang – overhyped or underestimated” There is a blog post about Erlang which recently cropped up. It is well written and puts forth some critique of the Erlang/OTP language. Naturally, I have a bias. I write a lot of Erlang and I like the language – and anything less then a blog […]