A poetic, geographic, and botanical journey of perfume discovery.

Variable length non-self-synchronising prefix codes (like x86 instructions and Huffman codes) are hard to decode in parallel, as each word must be decoded to figure out its length, before the next …

In the U.K., waiting lists for a plot of rented land have allegedly reached forty years. Imagine my surprise when I reached the top.

Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases literally dirt cheap. But making an insect-equivalent robot is immensely difficult—so hard that it’s easier…

I looked at 34 projects listed by the top Google result for “real-world blockchain projects”. 33 of these are either dead, pivoted away from Blockchain, use Blockchain in a (sometimes dangerously) bad way, or are have no real-world utility.

Historian Peter Baldwin explores the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over 3,000 years.

MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. requests to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

In 1959, hair transplantation studies led most people to abandon the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis. Today, those studies are in question. Here's why.

I recently started using the Nix Package Manager on macOS and the process has been painful. In this post, I’m going to write down how I’m currently using Nix...

I recently gave a talk (YouTube) at the RSS’22 L-DOD workshop. Here’s a lightly edited transcript and slides of the talk in blog form.

It shouldn't take this much work to publish a small library

First Net Loss In Over 30 Years, Cutting Fab Buildouts, But “Committed To Growing The Dividend”

JavaScript relies on garbage collection (GC) to reclaim memory.