BeeHex, a company based in Ohio, is one of 18 teams selected to compete in Phase II of the Deep Space Food Challenge. The challenge, sponsored by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, aims to create foods that can sustain a crew of astronauts on a deep-space mission to Mars for at least three years. […]
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In response to the previous article on scientific paper writing, the author received feedback from friends and colleagues expressing a desire to understand why writing is important. Many view academic writing as a tedious task to be done quickly or as a talent one must be born with. However, the author argues that writing is […]
The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI, also known as CLOG, is a powerful tool that uses web technology to create graphical user interfaces for applications. It can be used alongside or as a replacement for other cross-platform GUI frameworks and website frameworks. One unique aspect of CLOG is its ability to run natively on Android and […]
The book on Awk will be released at the end of September. In the meantime, the website will provide additional content such as historical documents, code snippets, and essays on Awk and related topics. Some of the highlighted content includes the original Awk paper from 1979, an internal technical report on Awk from 1985, and […]
A Vickrey auction, also known as a sealed-bid second-price auction, is a type of auction where bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of others. The highest bidder wins, but the price paid is the second-highest bid. This auction was first described by William Vickrey in 1961 and has been used since 1893 by […]
The author reflects on their experience as a programmer and notes that programming languages have not seen significant improvements over the years. They mention that even popular languages like Java and Rust still have issues such as buffer overflows and unbridled messes with aliasing. However, the author has found a language called Dafny that amazes […]
Gravitational waves have been detected again, this time using a different technique than before. Instead of ground-based detectors, researchers have been tracking changes in the distances between Earth and pulsars, beacon stars in our Galactic neighborhood. These changes reveal how space is stretched and squeezed by the passage of gravitational waves. The latest discovery involves […]
I recently tried to release a game but ran into trouble with Steam due to the usage of AI-generated assets. Although I planned to improve these assets before the official release, I wasn’t aware that Steam had issues with such art. Steam informed me that they couldn’t ship my game as it contained AI-generated assets […]
Acerbis, the motorcycle manufacturer, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a remarkable achievement – it has set a new Guinness World Record for the greatest distance ridden on a single tank of fuel by a gas-powered motorcycle. The impressive journey covered 4,183.8 kilometers without refueling. To accomplish this feat, Acerbis’s technical team designed and built […]
Polyrhythmix (Poly) is a command-line assistant designed for musicians and composers working in genres such as modern progressive rock, metal, djent, fusion, and Indian Carnatic music. It simplifies the process of creating complex polyrhythmic drum patterns by generating MIDI files based on DSL input. The tool calculates when different drum parts will converge and can […]