So much for Black Lives Matter.

Since our last blog post about CatColab, we’ve had two releases, meaning we’re now at v0.4: Robin. This brings a few major new features, including compositional notebooks and novel analyses for Petri nets.

The Coca Cola secret formula is one of the best kept secrets in recent history…and I hate secrets. So, naturally, I deciphered it with the help of mass spectrometry and created a chemically-identical replica!

Based.

Interesting book. May read in the future.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG8_bWpmaE

As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.

replicating human perception is hard, and it’s made harder when constrained to the limitations of display technology or printed images. There’s nothing wrong with tweaking the image when the automated algorithms make the wrong call.

Ry Hasenaur did their best to remove their body hair, but once they figured out they’re nonbinary, they found their hair was directly connected to their gender euphoria.

Smart woman down on her luck gets a new job at a boys’ club managing an Eldritch “machine.”

a three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction

Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier

Fascinating. Also another great example of how Nature used to be awesome.

Tony Padilla does a ‘magic trick’ with Fibonacci numbers and talks about Zeckendorf decompositions.

Menopause kicked my aaaaaaasssssss-

This comic is actually genius.

The thing that would actually help an underperformer improve is to teach or (even better) show them how to do a better job and the same is true for models.

Something I’e had come up a couple of times.

In this video, I present the story of phase space and one of the most fundamental theorems of classical physics — Liouville’s theorem. This is a walk through the birth of phase space and how the discovery of Liouville’s theorem involves not only Liouville but also Jacobi and Boltzmann.

Blog posts, talks, and essays that changed how people think about dependency management.

Because the Access Virus line of synthesizer has now been discontinued, I have uploaded the Access Virus TI2 firmware so everyone can use the OsTIrus software emulation of the synth.