Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index
People are integrating AI tools into their daily routines at a pace that would have been difficult to predict even a year ago. But adoption alone doesn’t tell us much about the impact of these tools. A further, equally important question is: as AI becomes part of everyday life, are individuals developing the skills to […]
The Origins of Agar
Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. This essay will appear in our forthcoming book, “Making the Modern Laboratory,” to be published later this year. In 1942, at the height of British industrial war mobilization, an unlikely cohort scavenged the nation’s coastline for a precious substance. Among them were researchers, lighthouse keepers, members of the Royal Air […]
The peculiar case of Japanese web design
methodology This project can be broken down into three parts: gathering data, processing data, and analyzing data. gathering data I started by using SEM Rush’s Open.Trends service to find the top websites for each country across all industries. While this can be done manually, i automated the process using the Python libraries BeautifulSoup and Selenium-Python […]
The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone’s data protection
5 min read Waydell D. Carvalho is an independent researcher and systems architect in AI governance, regulatory design, and socio-technical risk. Nicole Millman; Source images: iStock Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: societies are deciding it’s no longer kids’ stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use, exposure to harmful […]
VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]
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femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
…a purely symbolic gesture… This project began with an attempt to write the fastest lisp interpreter I could in under 1000 lines of C. It snowballed from there as I kept trying to see if I could add powerful features with minimal code. At the same time I assembled a library of some of my […]
I Donut Believe – Presenting Third Party Results (Donut Lab)
Fast Charge Performance Test The first independent test of the Donut Solid State Battery, conducted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, evaluates its charge performance under demanding conditions without active cooling. The cell was tested at both 5C and extreme 11C charge rates, confirming previously stated fast-charging targets, including a 0–80% charge in just […]
Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words
Lidar Waveforms are Worth 40x128x33 Words Dominik Scheuble, Hanno Holzhüter, Steven Peters, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025, pp. 28913-28924 Abstract Lidar has become crucial for autonomous driving, providing high-resolution 3D scans that are key for accurate scene understanding. To this end, lidar sensors measure the […]
Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
We’ve been searching for a memory-safe programming language to replace C++ in Ladybird for a while now. We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there, and platform support outside the Apple ecosystem was limited. Rust is a different story. The ecosystem is far more mature for systems programming, and many of […]
QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021)
Here is a project that I have been tossing around in my head for at least a year or two now. Given advances in audio compression algorithms and computer vision: could reasonably high-quality audio be stored on a paper tape? This is a fascinating concept to me. When considering the complete history of storage media […]