Belts in Karate are ordered from white to black. This is of course a new invention. Originally, new colored belts were not given upon arbitrary levels of attainment, a white belt was given at the beginning of one's training and you just never washed it. Over…

A Psalter, a silver belt, brooches and clasps, Parisian jewels, brown bread from Cologne, nuts and pears: these are all items that Queen Eleanor of Castile (r. 1272–1290) bought between September 1289 and December 1290. Eleanor was the queen consort of the…

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Beginning in 2023, the U.K. will require Americans to apply for Travel Authorization and undergo biometric checks when visiting.

ELIZA is Turing Complete
by Anthony Hay and Peter Millican (Professor of Philosophy, Hertford College, University of Oxford)
Last updated 2022-14-12; Originally published 2022-11-12

ELIZA is Turing complete. In other words, any possible Turing machine program…

A group of young idealists wanted to live the most ethical lives possible. Now some wonder whether the movement they joined has lost its moral compass

Sam Bankman-Fried was written up as the J.P. Morgan of crypto, but most of his success was due to very fancy financial engineering

I’ve been using the RC2014 as a a CP/M development machine, especially while developing a cross-platform Rogue-like game. I love it. And whilst it’s a hell of a lot more portable than carrying a Osborne 1 or a Amstrad CPC 6128, it’s not something I can keep…

Live view for the submillisecond web framework. Contribute to lunatic-solutions/submillisecond-live-view development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the dusty plains of present-day Sindh in southern Pakistan lie the remains of one of the world's most impressive ancient cities that most people have never heard of.

A pattern of integrals that all equal pi...until they don't.
Next video on convolutions: https://youtu.be/KuXjwB4LzSA
John Baez has a really fun article about this: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/patterns-that-eventually-fail/

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NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, carrying the uncrewed Orion spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39B in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST.