Psilocybin delays aging, extends lifespan, new Emory study suggests
As revenues from the anti-aging market — riddled with hope and thousands of supplements — surged past $500 million last year, Emory University researchers identified a compound that actively delays aging in cells and organisms. A newly published study in Nature Partner Journals’ Aging demonstrates that psilocin, a byproduct of consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic […]
Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group
IPNSIG was founded in 1998 by Vint Cerf and researchers within academia and NASA/JPL. We are now a full Chapter within the Internet Society, known as the Interplanetary Chapter. We work to extend terrestrial networking into solar system space, which is consistent with the Internet Society’s objectives to grow the internet to unpopulated areas, and […]
A Photonic SRAM with Embedded XOR Logic for Ultra-Fast In-Memory Computing
Abstract:Traditional von Neumann architectures suffer from fundamental bottlenecks due to continuous data movement between memory and processing units, a challenge that worsens with technology scaling as electrical interconnect delays become more significant. These limitations impede the performance and energy efficiency required for modern data-intensive applications. In contrast, photonic in-memory computing presents a promising alternative by […]
How I fixed my blog’s performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin
posted Jul 24, 2025 💡 If you don’t want to read the full story, you can check out the jekyll-skyhook plugin on GitHub here. When I started writing this blog, I figured I could write my posts, submit my website to Google Search Console for indexing, and presto – my posts would start appearing in […]
Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman
A major division of the U.S. Air Force is immediately suspending use of a gun made by New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer, following a fatal shooting on a Wyoming base over the weekend. The general in charge of the Air Force Global Strike Command, which comprises more than 33,000 personnel, said in a memo on Monday […]
Trying to play an isomorphic piano [video]
The great AI delusion is falling apart
I’m not sure if the whole AI thing is falling apart, but we are definitely in a phase where the hype doesn’t match what we are seeing in the real world. This article provides some interesting food for thought: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-great-ai-delusion-is-falling-apart/ar-AA1IyRwc In a randomised controlled trial – the first of its kind – experienced computer programmers […]
No One Knows Anything About AI
I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point toward two very different conclusions. The first narrative notes that Large Language Models (LLMs) are exceptionally well-suited for coding because source code, at its core, is just very well-structured text, […]
Software Development at 800 Words per Minute
Jul 24, 2025, 12:19 AM (updated Jul 24, 2025, 1:54 PM ) Imagine reading code not by looking at the screen, but by listening to interface elements, variables, language constructs and operators read at 800 words per minute (WPM) – over 5 times faster than normal speech. It sounds like gibberish to most, but to […]
There is no memory safety without thread safety
Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to languages that make sure that there are no use-after-free or out-of-bounds memory accesses in the program. This is then […]