Shōgi and Go A big reason chess isn’t so popular in Japan is the existence of two games which are far more popular: Shōgi, also called Japanese chess, and Go. They’ve been a part of Japanese culture for centuries, and … Read more
Pure crystals of LK-99, synthesized by a team at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.Credit: Pascal Puphal Researchers seem to have solved the puzzle of LK-99. Scientific detective work has unearthed evidence that the material … Read more
‘Anovelist is condemned to produce a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery,’ reflects the beleaguered hero of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Evelyn Waugh’s portrait of the artist as a middle-aged car … Read more
In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphical user interface. The entire document was around 500 words long and … Read more
ChatGPT scraped data from various sources on the internet. > The model was trained using text databases from the internet. This included a whopping 570GB of data obtained from books, webtexts, Wikipedia, articles and other pieces of writing on the … Read more
Storage isn’t getting that much cheaper. And neither is AWS S3. What’s are the implications? (h/t Peter Cai for the graph) pic.twitter.com/ZdZrgIh8bQ — Matt Rickard (@mattrickard) March 18, 2021 Clayton Christensen famously demonstrated the Innovator’s Dilemma by using data from … Read more
By mistake, MySpace inspired a generation of teenagers to learn how to code. From Stealing MySpace: The internet added, but the internet stopped being one. 2019, a world where all the apps are the same. Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram … Read more
Aria Beingessner March 16th, 2022 Phantomderp and I have both recently been very aligned on a particular subject: being extremely angry about C ABIs and trying to fix them. Where we’re not aligned is why we’re mad about them. He’s … Read more
95%-ile isn’t that goodI’m trying some experimental tiers on Patreon to see if I can get to substack-like levels of financial support for this blog without moving to substack! 95%-ile isn’t that good Reaching 95%-ile isn’t very impressive because it’s … Read more
One important thing that I think about a lot, even though I have no formal expertise, is the replication crisis. A shocking fraction of published research in many fields, including medicine and psychology, is flatly wrong—the results of the studies … Read more