Neanderthals used heat and water to extract fat from bones 125,000 years ago, revealing advanced food processing skills.

Memorize piano scales with ease! A piano practice program w/ MIDI support. Consider it an interactive reference manual 🎹 - ZaneH/piano-trainer

François Chollet on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

François Chollet is a leading voice in AI. He's the creator of the Keras library, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the founder of the ARC Prize, a global competition aimed at…

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the journal ...

We present Mercury, a new generation of commercial-scale large language models (LLMs) based on diffusion. These models are parameterized via the Transformer architecture and trained to predict...

Training Claude on copyrighted books it purchased was fair use, but piracy wasn't, the judge ruled.

The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make

Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv2:…

Discover the best and worst coloured pencils and markers for lightfastness, ensuring your artwork stays vibrant and doesn't fade too quickly.

CPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.

One of the many exciting new features in the upcoming Lean 4.22 release is a preview of the new verification infrastructure for proving properties of imperative programs. In this post, I’ll take a first look at this feature, show a simple example of what…

ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts - ossia/score

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry is a viral sensation: sprouting tiny, dense, native tree cover in neighbourhoods all around the world. With the promise of afforestation at a revolutionary speed, this planting technique has become the darling of green…

Maybe you, yes you, should run a Certificate Transparency log. It’s cheaper, easier, and more important than ever.

Honey is a natural sweetener, and bacteria loves to feast on sugar. But honey is remarkably resistant to spoilage. What's behind its ability to beat the bugs?

This post explores the idea that the next breakthroughs in AI may hinge more on how we collect experience through exploration, and less on how many parameters and data points we have.