Cutting out all the bs, let's jump on deriving the Poisson distribution in an intuitive way using a simple example, applying the concepts of Bernoulli's distribution, the Binomial theorem, L'Hôpital's rule and Taylor Series. A classic way to approach this…

Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur human-level performance in competitive…

You Could Just Choose Optimism There’s something strange and a little awe-inspiring about hearing someone ask for champagne on a two-hour domestic flight....

This post was inspired by some recent discussions with Bjoern Bringmann. Symbolic math software packages are highly developed for many mathematical tasks in areas such as algebra, calculus, and num…

Roots Music and Meaningful Matters.

A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases - TechnicJelle/GitDroid

How a 23 year old gal from Brisbane ended up designing the world’s most popular kids show.

Realtime cycle exact emulation of the C64 using multiple microcontrollers in parallel. - c1570/Connomore64

A new study from Cornell on AI writing assistants finds these tools have the potential to function poorly for billions of users in the Global South by generating generic language that makes them sound more like Americans.

The story of how I fulfilled my dream of putting sheet music into glasses, and why it's just the beginning.

Github Repo for this project: https://github.com/kevinlinxc/AugmentedChords
Dilation animation: https://gist.github.com/kevinlinxc/8af1ba908bba53…

A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal - ernestofgonzalez/epub-utils

Accountability engineering in institution design

This small(ish) bird lays one of the largest eggs in the bird world. New research might hold the keys to solving this long-standing mystery.

A place for me to vent about my current obsessions.

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of Portsmouth Associate Professor of Astrophysics, Dr. Or Graur to uncover what he thinks ...

It’s also argued that patches and updates mean physical carts become outdated anyway…

Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

PV modules are cheap enough today that the simple fixed East-West arrays are cheaper and faster to install than the industry’s darling, the single-axis tracked array. Xavier Dedenbach, Terraform Po…

Amazon’s Kuiper satellites look nothing like SpaceX’s Starlink.

I’m obsessed with this basic web need.