Recently on Facebook, my friend, nerd extraordinaire Esther Schindler, shared a photograph of herself wearing an old T-shirt and challenged her followers to identify it: Either you have no idea what that image means, or you know exactly what it … Read more
The Dronut® is the world’s first bi-rotor ducted drone designed to operate where other robots cannot. With high maneuverability, sophisticated sensors, and advanced algorithms, the Dronut® can live stream high-definition video and collect LiDAR data in the ultra confined spaces … Read more
Where is the Ruby language headed? At RubyConf 2021, the presentations about the language focused on static typing and performance—where performance can be subdivided into execution speed, I/O throughput, and parallel execution on multiple cores. These efforts are geared toward expanding … Read more
Posted by khuey on 9 November 2021 When you search for executions of a function in Pernosco (or set a breakpoint in a more traditional debugger), how does the debugger decide where to stop? You might think it just stops … Read more
In everyday language, the word “transcendental” connotes something that’s beyond the ordinary, something that is hidden and mysterious, with almost magical or mystical powers. In mathematics, on the other hand, the meaning of the term “transcendental” is more mundane. It … Read more
As many of Wilson’s colleagues soon realized, the significance of the theory extended well beyond actual islands. Through logging and mining and generalized sprawl, the world was increasingly being cut up into “islands” of habitat. The smaller and more isolated … Read more
While I was watching Malignant—the new horror film from James Wan, one of the genre’s most popular directors at the moment—on HBO Max, a pair of thoughts leapt into my head unbidden. The first had to do with the film’s … Read more
Every time I want to quickly understand something about an advanced type system or programming language concept I get lost when I see something like this on Wikipedia: Linear type systems are the internal language of closed symmetric monoidal categories, … Read more
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Ask HN: Where are all the Show HNs? 52 points by behnamoh 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 20 comments Searching for “Show HN” posts (using hn.algolia.com) reveals a sad story: Many of them are gone. I … Read more