By measuring the melting temperature of iron under high transient pressure, researchers set a limit on the temperature at the boundary between the inner and outer cores.

In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.

This article addresses theory in evolutionary many-objective optimization and focuses on the role of crossover operators. The advantages of using crossover are hardly understood and rigorous...

.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop. - dotnet/maui

Tom Cunningham blog

We have entered a very dangerous time.

A real-time audio effect. Anything can be music if you listen closely enough.

https://github.com/marinabox/marinabox

Using Cleanshot to take a screenshot of a mock and Pin that while developing. It’ll create a fixed floating window that stays on top of other

This rather sinister image is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of western cartography. Most often referred to simply as the Fool’s Cap Map of the World, it […]

It wasn't on my bingo card for end of year 2024 but the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has seen a new round of improvements to the Flash Video (FLV) support. For those still interested in the Flash Video (FLV) container file format as we roll into…

Re: H1B MAGA debate

I've helped numerous physicists and engineers get O1 (alien of extraordinary ability) and H1B visas. The former tend to be PhDs (eg Russian theoretical physicist from top university) and the latter tend to be engineers with more applied…

Elon Musk may be the last obstacle to stop OpenAI’s for-profit shift.

An international collaboration of researchers including numerous scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany has produced the most sensitive map of the gravitational wave sky. To achieve this goal, the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing…

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