Building brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company
At Blackrock Neurotech, Spencer Kellis develops implantable devices that help people with brain and spinal cord conditions communicate, move and more.
Slack workflows as duct tape
A workflow we've wanted for a long time at Buttondown: throw a random paper cut or complaint into a Slack channel, and get a nicely formatted Linear issue out the other end. This is not a novel...
What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs.An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions. I read that near the start of my career and it's...
A Letter from a Machine Learning Engineer
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Interesting Shoes I’ve Been Running In
It’s true, I do have a lot of running shoes. Here are quick thoughts on five models new to me this year that I’ve been enjoying a lot.BMAI Jingtan Turbo 3.0 (Spin the AliExpress price wheel!)A runner...
A declaration on math and AI
An open letter from mathematicians, on the “severe misalignment” in goals between researchers and “AI” companies: The mathematical community functions, in many ways, as a miniature version of...
This is how we do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation to understand what can happen in a study
In a famous (to readers of this blog) example of statistical error, a researcher reported that beautiful parents were 36% more likely to have girl babies. The saps at Freakonomics fell for this one...
The Promise and Peril of Toad Smoking, the Everest of Psychedelics
A conversation with author Kimon de Greef about his new book “The Ego Trip” The post The Promise and Peril of Toad Smoking, the Everest of Psychedelics appeared first on Nautilus.
Using ID.me Login with TreasuryDirect
I received several emails from TreasuryDirect saying that it will replace the existing login system with a third-party service called ID.me. The ID.me login is available on TreasuryDirect’s website...
Five assumptions behind “forecastability”
Here is a confession. I don’t like the idea of “forecastability”. I think it does not bring value and can be harmful in some cases. Let me explain. One of the definitions I see on the internet: “A...
The contagion of fear
Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689460 Points: 226 # Comments: 151
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688695 Points: 929 # Comments: 390