A senior Canadian federal scientist has alleged that the government shut down an investigation into a mystery brain illness in New Brunswick that he believes may have affected 350 people. He is the second federal scientist to accuse the government … Read more
The scenario We started seeing some strange devices show up for some of our customers’ users. These devices would access the same page the user just had around 10 seconds after they did, from somewhere quite different. It’s obviously a … Read more
Feel free to skip this blog if you’re triggered by “Old man yells at cloud” or “Grandpa tells us about his childhood” style posts. This is the second in a row after a moan about my cellphone. A more lighthearted … Read more
Why It Matters Scientists still do not fully understand how dust and gas in the early solar system coalesced into moons and planets. Like the first ring around Quaoar, announced by a team of astronomers in February, the second ring … Read more
In this post, I discuss how I used GPT embeddings to build a smart search tool for my second brain note-taking system.
Linden Lab open-sourced Second Life’s client on January 8th, 2007. In the 15 years since, open source contributions have led to countless new features and bug fixes that have markedly improved the life of our virtual world. Without open source, … Read more
Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind … Read more
“As far as we can tell now, only wETH has been affected, no other tokens,” a Wormhole admin wrote on Telegram The protocol offered the hacker a bounty of $10 million for details on the exploit and return of the … Read more
In our age when cloud services can shut down, get bought, or change privacy policy any day, the last thing you want is proprietary format and data lock-in. With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder. Never leave your … Read more
Image credit: NASA The Cassini probe detected this hexagonal-shaped vortex, very similar to the one discovered in the 1980s by the Voyager mission, shortly before it was destroyed.Back in the 1980s, the American space probe Voyager discovered a cloud pattern … Read more