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The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet.

Starbase in Texas, where the world’s richest man has a rocket-launching facility, was incorporated this week. Mars obsessives are flocking there – but some long-term locals are far from happy

As a U.S. citizen, the man formerly called Cardinal Robert Prevost technically is required to file returns to the IRS.

We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something t…

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

I am more and more concerned about the White House’s trade negotiations, to the point where I feel I need to sound an alarm. The White House needs new members on its team for trade. In ~3-6 months we are going to start having shortages of transformers, pumps, air conditioners,

The immediate effect of Trump’s menaces, and the visit to Nuuk in January of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, was to...

On scaling scaffolding, your second soul, and patience.

I may have shared this before, but here it is again in case it helps someone. A couple of years ago, I was telling my therapist ab

From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.

from the album Mum Does The Washing EP

The international roughness index (IRI) is the roughness index most commonly obtained from measured longitudinal road profiles. It is calculated using a quarter-car vehicle math model, whose…