AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it promises, but promises so much that the industry still leverages it because we believe … Read more
I think a thing that’d be nice is to have a databank of rewrite rules. Here’s some of the ones I know about. IF YOU HAVE ANY INTERESTING OR NOT SO INTERESTING RULES PLEASE DROP ME A LINE. You can … Read more
It’s time to tackle one of London’s great unanswered questions. Where is London’s most central sheep? I’m only interested in live sheep, so not a cuddly toy in Hamleys nor lamb cutlets at The Ritz. I’m not interested in temporary … Read more
16 Jan 2025 Oftentimes in your “intro to proofs” class or your first “discrete math” class or something similar, you’ll be shown problems of the form “prove that for $n^6 + n^3 + 2n^2 + 2n$ is a multiple of … Read more
Mr. Beast is probably the biggest channel on YouTube right now by a lot of metrics. But it wasn’t always that way. He, like all YouTubers, started out making small videos from his bedroom playing video games or doing random … Read more
This map shows you how far you can travel from each station in Europe in less than 8 hours. Hover your mouse on the map to see the isochrones from that city, search for a station, or click on one … Read more
Dionisia Moreno, a 70-year-old Indigenous farmer, still remembers when Shallap River, nearly 13,000 feet up in the Cordillera Blanca, brought crystal clear water brimming with trout to her village, Jancu. “People and animals alike could drink the water without suffering,” … Read more
The gangway was long gone, by then. There was just one way to enter the rust-etched, echoing hull that bobbed in the shallows off Alang, a small town on India’s Arabian Sea coast. It is the world’s largest shipbreaking yard, … Read more
Visualizing Gaps in OpenStreetMap Data and why Routing for Bikes, Scooters and Wheelchairs is so bad TL;DR This application is meant to highlight what we perceive to be a problem in the digital map of the world – the map … Read more
Where does software innovation happen? A zoomable map September 11, 2024 — Thank you to the volunteer contributions of many people over many years (especially Hari!) which has made this visualization possible. View source