Stories by thunderbong

Why Airplanes Use 400 Hz Power

The Chinese AI labs are making four pretty different bets. I work at one of them

US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands

Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016)

Can Animals Be Right- or Left-Pawed?

Pg_savior: A Postgres extension to avoid accidental mistakes

Necropolitics

China Crosses Energy Milestone as Coal Falls Below 50% of Power

How to Model the True Cost per Token Across GPU Architectures

What's Up with the Weird Mouths of These Finch Chicks?

The NUMBER – trusted number infrastructure

Libration

Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate

Churchill's Ersatz Meeting with Lincoln's Ghost (2018)

How Did America Get Its Name? (2016)

FoxSchema: Compare and migrate SQL database schemas across 10 dialects

Mary Celeste

Mass Psychosis in Food Science

LinkedIn adds a 'Seems like AI slop' button

How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name

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