below are some links I stumbled upon surfing the internet and found interesting
The radix 2^51 trick @30 May 2025
Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For @26 May 2025
chomsky.info | The Noam Chomsky Website.
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry @12 May 2025
www.righto.com | In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the ...
How to live an intellectually rich life @03 May 2025
utsavmamoria.substack.com | .. and how living one is easier than you think
Pycco @02 May 2025
pycco-docs.github.io | “Pycco” is a Python port of Docco: the original quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator. It produces HTML that displays your comments alongside your code. Comments are passed through Markdown and SmartyPants1, while code is passed through Pygments for syntax highlighting.
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector @29 Apr 2025
defector.com | Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan […]
The Music of Light: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Colour Analysis Charts (1902) @29 Apr 2025
publicdomainreview.org | Colour analysis charts of various objects, such as Assyrian tiles, Persian rugs, a case containing an Egyptian mummy, and even a teacup and saucer — looking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris.
Recommended Crate Directory - Blessed.rs @24 Apr 2025
The Collector’s Fallacy @22 Apr 2025
zettelkasten.de | There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself. As knowledge workers, we’re inclined to look for the next groundbreaking thought, for intellectual stimulation: we pile up promising books and articles, and we store half the internet as bookmarks, just so we get the feeling of being on the cutting edge.
Rust for the Polyglot Programmer @19 Apr 2025
hneemann/Digital @16 Apr 2025
github.com | A digital logic designer and circuit simulator
Writing My Own Dithering Algorithm in Racket @14 Apr 2025
amanvir.com | My journey implementing a new dithering algorithm in the Racket programming language.
Make it Yourself @08 Apr 2025
Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag @31 Mar 2025
blog.jim-nielsen.com | Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED @19 Mar 2025
youtube.com | Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people suppo...
Sunset Geometry @15 Mar 2025
Index Librorum Prohibitorum @12 Mar 2025
How to Read an Engineering Research Paper @10 Mar 2025
How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? @08 Mar 2025
www.freaktakes.com | Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer
Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it @06 Mar 2025
www.science.org | Cognitive skills do not decline with age for those who use math and reading throughout their life.
You Will Never Win an Argument On the Internet—Here's Why @17 Feb 2025
www.joanwestenberg.com | The Internet promised us a renaissance of discourse. Armed with instant access to all human knowledge and the ability to connect with brilliant minds worldwide, we imagined our online debates would elevate human understanding to unprecedented heights. But two decades later, we scroll through our choice of social poison, watching people with PhDs argue like kindergarteners with a rogues gallery of anime avatars about whether water is wet / turning frogs gay. We're a fucking mess. And sooner o
Learning By Writing @01 Feb 2025
www.cold-takes.com | An outline of how I form detailed opinions on topics: by exploring hypotheses and writing about them, not by undirected reading.
Write plain text files | Derek Sivers @31 Jan 2025
sive.rs |
Plain Text @31 Jan 2025
brajeshwar.com | I’m on an adventure to create beautiful and meaningful products to improve the world for my daughters and their friends.
Project MINI RACK @30 Jan 2025
mini-rack.jeffgeerling.com | Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.