Accuracy from Iron in the Industrial Revolution By Gary Linscott · Discuss: This is a screw-cutting lathe of the kind Henry Maudslay built in London around 1800. A labourer turns the large wheel to spin the bar in the middle, … Read more
Ship and run software with isolation by default. This is a CLI tool that lets you: Manage and run custom Linux virtual machines locally with: sub-second cold start, cross-platform (macOS, Linux), elastic memory usage. Pack a stateful virtual machine into … Read more
2025-11-18 :: lisp, stupidity, stories I am just really bored by Lisp Machine romantics at this point: they should go away. I expect they never will. History Symbolics went bankrupt in early 1993. In the way of these things various … Read more
Henry Alan Dragon, May 23, 2024, 1:26 pm. Last year, at a Panera-catered “new faculty appreciation” luncheon, the Dean of my college told me—as I folded my hands across my seven-months-pregnant belly—that I should look for long-term academic employment elsewhere. … Read more
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better October 2024 I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI. The company I’m the CEO of, Anthropic, does a lot of research on how to reduce these … Read more
Your browser does not support this video. Essay Sun Machines Solar, an energy source that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge Video: Eiko Ojala Jun 20th 2024 A photovoltaic cell is a very simple thing: a square … Read more
Introduction For all their brilliance, artificial neural networks remain as inscrutable as ever. As these networks get bigger, their abilities explode, but deciphering their inner workings has always been near impossible. Researchers are constantly looking for any insights they can … Read more
Well, that was unexpected. I recorded a couple of crappy videos in 5 minutes, posted them on a Twitter thread, and went viral with 8.8K likes at this point. I really could not have predicted that, given that I’ve been … Read more
Honoring Scientific Instruments of the Past While Expanding on Their Possibilities Tatjana van Vark has built, replicated, and restored a wide variety of scientific instruments. Introduction Tatjana Joëlle van Vark, of the Netherlands, has focused her work on subjects that … Read more
Welcome to PCjs PCjs uses JavaScript to recreate the IBM PC experience, using original ROMs, CPUs running at their original speeds, and early IBM video cards and monitors, including the classic green monochrome MDA monitor and the venerable “flickery” CGA … Read more