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Raph Levien Proposes 'Hyperbezier' as a Successor to the Cubic Bézier Curve
Raph Levien, whose PhD work produced the Spiro curve system, has introduced a new curve family he calls the hyperbezier, pitched as a potential replacement for
St. Lucie Unit 1 reactor manually tripped after 3 control rods drop into core
Operators at Florida's St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant manually tripped Unit 1 at 9:47 a.m. EDT on August 13, 2026, after three control rods unexpectedly fell int
The Ghost Characters Haunting Unicode Since a 1978 Japanese Typo
When Japan's trade ministry standardized the JIS X 0208 character encoding in 1978, it accidentally enshrined a handful of characters that meant nothing. Dubbed
The Weekend Turns 100 — and Remote Work Is Quietly Dissolving It
The two-day weekend is a surprisingly recent invention, marking its centenary in 2026. Henry Ford didn't create it, but in 1926 he threw his industrial weight b
Waist Size Beats BMI at Flagging Heart Disease Risk, 260K-Person Study Finds
A study in JACC, the American College of Cardiology's flagship journal, argues that BMI alone misclassifies cardiovascular risk because it ignores where body fa
Why the best startup ideas die in coworking spaces
The essay builds on Sam Altman's explanation for why Y Combinator deliberately avoids putting founders in shared coworking spaces — a model thousands of incubat
A 2018 arXiv Paper Argues First-Year Calculus Is Overcomplicated
A short arXiv paper by title 'Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus' contends that the standard first-year curriculum forces students to memorize ma
Agent-in-a-loop: Codex hill-climbs to a 232x GPU kernel speedup
A hobbyist GPU programmer describes placing 12th of 183 in a GPU Mode auto-research contest by wrapping OpenAI's Codex agent in a tight optimization loop. The t
AI Bug-Hunting May Make Software Too Secure — and Revive the Backdoor Wars
Cryptographer Matthew Green argues that AI-powered vulnerability discovery is about to upend the uneasy truce over encrypted communications. Since roughly 2010,
AI by Hand: Tom Yeh's Substack Teaches ML Math via Pen-and-Paper Exercises
The page retrieved here is not an article but the subscription landing page for "AI by Hand ✍️," a Substack newsletter run by Prof. Tom Yeh. The actual body con
Alibaba Opens Qwen3.8 Weights: 27B Multimodal Model Plus a 2.4T Max-Tier MoE
Alibaba's Qwen team has published open weights for its Qwen3.8 lineup under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, headlined by Qwen3.8-27B. It's a dense, natively mu
At-Home Tick Test Aims to Speed Up Lyme Disease Diagnosis
A Boston pediatric physician associate, Erin Dawicki, is bringing a consumer product called LymeAlert to market this August that lets people test a tick they've