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China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane
On August 30, members of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AICC) and the Antonov Corporation, the leading Ukrainian aviation company, signed an agreement to restart production of the AN-225,...
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Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it?
Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structuresA. R. Sanchez, B. Heshmat*, A. Aghasi, M. Zhang, S. Naqvi, J. Romberg, R. RaskarAbstractTime of flight imaging has...
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Early evidence on “predictive policing” and civil rights
The term “predictive policing” refers to computer systems that use data to forecast where crime will happen or who will be involved. Some tools produce maps of anticipated crime “hot spots,” while...
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Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP
README.md🚡 A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener.Polr is an intrepid, self-hostable open-source link shortening web application with a robust API. It allows you to host your own URL...
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A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity
The Bactra Review: Occasional and eclectic book reviews by Cosma Shalizi 132Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science Wolfram Media, 2002 A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit...
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New report examines how AI might affect urban life
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already transformed our lives — from the autonomous cars on the roads to the robotic vacuums and smart thermostats in our homes. Over the next 15 years, AI technologies...
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Neuromorphic computing implementation of pole balancing
This is a classic application from control theory. A pole is to be balanced on a cart that can move horizontally within a fixed area. The pole has a mass on its top. The pole starts in some imbalanced...
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The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap'
Betty Pack on her wedding day. (Photo: Churchill Archives Center, Papers of Harford Montgomery Hyde, HYDE 02 011/Courtesy Harper Collins)These days the “honeypot” is a popular trope in espionage...
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Time crystals might exist after all
Credit: CC0 Public Domain(Phys.org)—Are time crystals just a mathematical curiosity, or could they actually physically exist? Physicists have been debating this question since 2012, when Nobel...
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Machine Learning in a Year
First intro: Hacker News and UdacityMy interest in ml stems back to 2014 when I started reading articles about it on Hacker News. I simply found the idea of teaching machines stuff by looking at data...
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Show HN: Colors Used by Popular Sites
In order to organize this data for the above charts, I had to convert all the colors used into a single format. Here I'll explain the different color formats and how I converted them all to...
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Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
IntroductionAs I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to...
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Getting Stuck While Doing TDD, Part 3: Triangulation to the Rescue
Welcome back to the “Getting Stuck While Doing TDD” series. Today we are going to learn the Golden Rule of TDD and how to not get stuck while doing TDD.TL;DR“As tests get more specific, production code...
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Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry
An ancient form of metalworking is being used to create turbine blades for jet engines.Casting is one of the oldest and most basic methods of metalworking. If you can make a fire hot enough to melt a...
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Startup employees don't earn more
Image by Sebastiaan ter Burg. License: CC-BY-SA 2.0Since the average startup founder who makes it to Series A earns more than a large company employee, many believe that early-stage startup employees...
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Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1
“If you don’t know how compilers work, then you don’t know how computers work. If you’re not 100% sure whether you know how compilers work, then you don’t know how they work.”— Steve YeggeThere you...
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Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar
While there are dozens of small refinements with Version 8 of our software, described in addendum below, the most significant upgrade to Autopilot will be the use of more advanced signal processing to...
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On Generative Algorithms
SectionsIntroductionHyphaeTreesLinetraceDifferetial LineDifferential MeshDifferential Mesh 3dFracturesSand SplineDifferential LatticeSand CreaturesSand GlyphsNot a ConclusionIntroductionI've always...
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Iran’s exceptional reaction to 9/11 attacks
“Iran’s sympathetic response to the American tragedy has been exceptional for a country under US economic siege for two decades. Only hours after the Sept. 11 attack, President Muhammad Khatami...
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The Unique Sound of the Cricket
Édouard Manet, Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé, 1876.Stéphane Mallarmé died 118 years ago today. He wrote the letter below to his friend Eugène Lefébure, in May 1867, at age twenty-five, when he was...
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