CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them
What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had agreements with CNN and USA Today? And that Forbes Marketplace was stuffing those sites full of affiliate content just like it is with Forbes? And what if Forbes Marketplace went to extreme efforts to hide everything? I believe all […]
MTA Open Data Challenge
The MTA is excited to announce our first-ever Open Data Challenge! This month-long competition invites community members, developers, and data enthusiasts to harness the power of MTA’s open data. Participants will develop a project that creatively utilizes at least one MTA open dataset. Whether you’re passionate about transportation, technology, or urban planning, this is your […]
The CRPG Book Project
The CRPG Book Project is a collaborative, non-profit effort to create a free & easily available ebook on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games. DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION HERE (v4.0, OCTOBER 2023) Our goal is to gather all the knowledge currently spread across countless websites, books, videos, podcasts, forums and minds in a single, accessible […]
Money-Laundering Practices in the Online Scam Industry
Jingjing invited me to her office and asked me to wait for her to finish work before we headed out to dinner together.[1] At the time, she was working in a third-party payment company—what, in the jargon of the money-laundering industry, is known as a ‘gateway’ (通道, tongdao). Like another similar enterprise I had previously […]
Collaborative Text Editing with e.g.-Walker: Better, Faster, Smaller
Abstract:Collaborative text editing algorithms allow several users to concurrently modify a text file, and automatically merge concurrent edits into a consistent state. Existing algorithms fall in two categories: Operational Transformation (OT) algorithms are slow to merge files that have diverged substantially due to offline editing; CRDTs are slow to load and consume a lot of […]
The Physics of Colliding Balls
Glancing collision with a stationary ball¶ Suppose that a ball strikes an initially-stationary second ball with a glancing impact. That is, the line which connects the two balls at the moment of impact is not parallel with the velocity of the moving ball. What happens in that case? We’re now in two dimensions, since the […]
“Comedy is search” – theory on how jokes work
In this post I will share with you my theory of how comedy works, and a step-by-step process to creating jokes and comedy sketches. Here’s the video version of this article: Relevant materials: Joke Structure Our minds think by recognizing patterns, and using them to make predictions. When you see a pattern (“A, B, C”), […]
1000s of Toxins from food packaging found in humans – research
More than 3,600 chemicals approved for food contact in packaging, kitchenware or food processing equipment have been found in humans, new peer-reviewed research has found, highlighting a little-regulated exposure risk to toxic substances. The chemicals have been found in human blood, hair or breast milk. Among them are compounds known to be highly toxic, like […]
NIST Interoperable Randomness Beacons
NOTICES This is a beta release of the 2.0 Version of the Beacon Service. The first release and data is available at: NIST Randomness Beacon (Version 1.0) May 17, 2024, between 6:30-10:00PM ET new pulses from the Beacon Service may be unavailable. Any pulses generated during any interruption will be available as soon as all […]
TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’
Last winter, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took a whirlwind tour of the Far East, meeting with high-powered execs from companies like TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix, but he didn’t make the best first impression. According to a report in the New York Times this week, senior TSMC execs allegedly dubbed the OpenAI chief a “podcasting […]