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Psycholinguist Giosuè Baggio sheds light on the thrilling, evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet. By: Giosuè Baggio What exactly is language? At first thought, it’s a continuous flow of sounds we hear, sounds we make, scribbles on … Read more

The past two weeks, I’ve been feeling very tired. Why? Some mysterious combination of COVID booster, possibly catching a cold from my daughter, and other factors. I wasn’t tired or burnt out from a work situation, or of anything in … Read more

I continue to have no time for big programming projects, so here is a short blog post. Two years ago I looked into a bug in the glibc implementation of condition variables: Sometimes pthread_cond_signal() doesn’t do anything, which can easily … Read more

The SMBC comic Convert included as the “Votey button” a challenge to extract a Waldo visual from the digits of π. I present waldo.gif (here blown up to 25x size): The pixel data in this gif are the 23,074,248th through … Read more

Even the strongest gravitational waves that pass through the planet, created by the distant collisions of black holes, only stretch and compress each mile of Earth’s surface by one-thousandth the diameter of an atom. It’s hard to conceive of how … Read more

Raymond February 7th, 2022 Finding the average of two unsigned integers, rounding toward zero, sounds easy: unsigned average(unsigned a, unsigned b) { return (a + b) / 2; } However, this gives the wrong answer in the face of integer … Read more

Jan 22nd 2022 STARTUPS COME and startups go. But few startups start with $3bn in the bank. Yet that is the fortunate position in which Altos Labs finds itself. Though preparations for the launch of what must surely be a … Read more

Finding Your Home in Game Graphics Programming Overview “Graphics has become too difficult.” I have increasingly heard this or some variation of it in recent years, that graphics programming has become so complicated and difficult to learn that it’s discouraging … Read more

Last week a monster in Ethereum’s dark forest revealed itself to me. 16 hours prior to their reveal I had laid down cryptographic bait after hearing of its existence from tux. I expected it, but it was still surprising to … Read more