24 Feb 2026 “How far back in time can you understand English?”, a post that tells a story starting with the English of 2000 AD and ending with the English of 1000 AD has gone viral, and gotten a lot … Read more
More information: read the article on Medium reading the undocumented mems accelerometer on apple silicon macbooks via iokit hid what is this apple silicon chips (M1/M2/M3/M4) have a hard to find mems accelerometer managed by the sensor processing unit (SPU). … Read more
October 2024 Who, What, Where, How, and Why Do I Read – Why Reading Matters Reading means my total consumption of ideas and media, learning via seeing or listening to symbols versus pure action. Reading involves books at the core, … Read more
So many sci-fi movies, anime, and video games owe a massive debt of gratitude to William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel. Chiba City Greens | Illustration: James Bareham/MBH4H I have a confession: Until I started working at The Verge in 2016, … Read more
For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport’s NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften’s pypassport. I can now read all the passport … Read more
The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway. Most things take forever to bear fruit. Even the most successful creators have spent years (if not decades) putting content out in obscurity. Just a complete total void. … Read more
“Business” Books Are Cheap Entertainment, Not Strategic Tools Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor. They turn simplified stories into generic advice, convert rare successes into universal strategies, and replace complex market dynamics with motivational … Read more
Shit’s gotten weird out there. The internet has devolved from something that was mostly quirky and altruistic to something that, in many ways, is straight-up evil. Companies have commoditized user attention through an economic framework that is completely divorced from … Read more
11 Nov 2024, Taro Langner In this post: An attempt to reconstruct Ilya Sutskever’s 2020 AI reading list (8 min read) I recently shared a summary of a viral AI reading list attributed to Ilya Sutskever, which laid claim to … Read more
Abstract In this paper we present a new method for automatic transliteration and segmentation of Unicode cuneiform glyphs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Cuneiform is one of the earliest known writing system in the world, which documents millennia of … Read more