artificial intelligence How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment October 3, 2025 The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world. Read Later The model demonstrates a notion of “surprise” when shown unphysical scenarios. Kristina…

The Most Banned Book of the 2024–25 School Year: A Clockwork Orange in Books | October 7th, 2025 Leave a Comment If you hap­pen to be a high school stu­dent in Flori­da who’s eager to read A Clock­work Orange, that urge may turn out to be hard­er to sat­is­fy than you imag­ine. Antho­ny Burgess’…

In Internet Will Kill the Nation-State, we explored how communication technologies destroyed the feudal system and the Church, and created the nation-state. In Pax Mercatus, we saw how agricultural and transportation technologies also contributed. Finance had a major effect as well: We saw in How…

Disclosure: TigerBeetle is an Amplify portfolio company. By many measures it’s safe to say that TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the world. Like Costanza in Seinfeld, they seem to do the opposite of everyone else: Most teams write code fast. TigerBeetle tries to write code slow.Most…

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I started reading software blogs before I got my first programming job 20 years ago. At this point, I’ve read thousands of blog posts and essays about software, but only a small handful stuck in my mind and changed the way I think. “The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code” by Joel Spolsky (2000) Joel…

오랜만에 마쓰오타이샤松尾大社 역 앞 킷사텐喫茶店 푸룬プルーン에서 맛있는 모닝 세트로 든든하게 아침을 먹고 마쓰오타이샤松尾大社에 들러 처음으로 정원 쇼후우엔松風苑을 거닐었다. 비교적 최근에 만든 정원이지만 오래된 신사에 걸맞는 멋진 정원이었다. 마쓰오타이샤를 나와 아라시야마嵐山 가는 길에 일부러 산자락 아래 골목을 따라 걸어간다. 길은 굽어져 이어진다. 대문 뒤 분홍 나리가 예쁘다. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 골목은 산자락 아래 개천을 따라 이어진다. 개천 옆집은 집마다 작은 다리로 이어진다. 골목 한쪽 담장 위 수국이 만발한다. ​ ​ ​…

Definition Definition Did you know? Synonyms Example Sentences Word History Rhymes Entries Near Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In candor noun can·​dor ˈkan-dər -ˌdȯr Synonyms of candor 1 : unreserved, honest, or…

This is a long narrow Soho passage named after a demolished manor house that was once owned by a traitor and a Lord Mayor. The passageway sits to the south of Soho Square, and the block of buildings directly to the south had been laid out as houses with gardens behind. It was in the early 1680s that…

▲ 무의도의 세렝게티라고 불리는 '무렝게티'는 백패킹의 명소로 자리잡고 있다. 김홍의 가을은 백패킹을 즐기는 이들에게 가장 기다려지는 계절이다. 땀이 흘러내릴 만큼 덥지도 않고, 뼛속까지 스며드는 한기도 덜하다. 지난 4일, 백패커들이 '무렝게티'라 부르는 무의도의 비밀스러운 장소를 찾았다. '무렝게티'라는 이름은 무의도의 '무'와 아프리카 세렝게티의 '렝게티'를 합친 합성어다. 공식 지명은 아니지만, 여행자들이 붙인 별칭이 널리 쓰이며 이제는 무의도의 또 다른 얼굴처럼 자리 잡았다. 이름처럼 한 번 발을 들이면 섬 속에서 만나는…

embarrass verb em·​bar·​rass im-ˈber-əs -ˈba-rəs embarrassed; embarrassing; embarrasses Synonyms of embarrass transitive verb 1 a : to cause to experience a state of self-conscious distress bawdy stories embarrassed him b : to place in doubt, perplexity, or difficulties c : to involve in financial…

The Fronteers Conference made a comeback this year with a fresh concept, presenting unique technical challenges that we were excited to tackle. Fronteers Dark Mode would be a smaller, more intimate event. We’d start around four in the afternoon and run until after midnight—an evening of frontend.…

Short Science Fiction Isaac Asimov 22,443 words (1 hour 22 minutes) with a reading ease of 77.23 (fairly easy) Science Fiction Shorts Description Isaac Asimov’s reputation precedes him; his prolific output of science fiction novels and short stories between the 1940s and the 1990s, along with his…

Did you know that the Square Mile sequesters part of the Great Wall of China? Image: Matt Brown A fragment of the ancient landmark has sat near Fleet Street for 100 years. It's well known that the City of London's ancient walls can still be seen in fragments. But did you know that the Square Mile…

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Definition Definition Synonyms Example Sentences Word History Entries Near Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In sonorous adjective so·​no·​rous ˈsä-nə-rəs sə-ˈnȯr-əs Synonyms of sonorous 1 : producing sound (as when…

The Austronesian language family is absolutely vast, including over 1200 languages; for comparison Europe has only around 200, and the whole Indo-European family adds up to around 450. I’ve only included 32 selected languages here, and for simplicity I’ve had to miss out entire branches of the…

Definition Definition Did you know? Synonyms Example Sentences Word History Rhymes Entries Near Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In repertoire noun rep·​er·​toire ˈre-pər-ˌtwär ˈre-pə- Synonyms of repertoire 1 a : a…

in Art, History | October 3rd, 2025 Leave a Comment Few mod­ern writ­ers so remind me of the famous Vir­ginia Woolf quote about fic­tion as a “spi­der’s web” more than Argen­tine fab­u­list Jorge Luis Borges. But the life to which Borges attach­es his labyrinths is a librar­i­an’s life; the strands…

중앙SUNDAY 오피니언 먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘 [먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘] <100> 실험 국가 중앙선데이 입력 업데이트 962호 29면 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 최근 1개월 내 지면만 열람하실 수 있습니다. 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 로그인 하시면 최신호의 전체 내용을 보실 수 있습니다. 로그인 하시겠습니까? 더중앙플러스 회원이 되시면 창간호부터 전체 지면보기와 지면 다운로드가 가능합니다. 더중앙플러스 회원이 되시겠습니까? 글·그림 이원복 앱에서만 제공되는 편의…

Definition Definition Did you know? Example Sentences Word History Entries Near Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids Medical DefinitionMedical To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In gibbous adjective gib·​bous ˈji-bəs ˈgi- 1 a : marked by convexity or swelling b of the…

Oct 3, 2025 Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2) About The Author Yegor Gilyov is a product design leader specializing in complex B2B products, with twenty-five years of hands-on experience in the design industry. He champions … More about Yegor ↬ Email Newsletter…

Some time ago, I wrote briefly on writing a helper class for generating a particular category of C callback wrappers around C++ methods. This particular mechanism used a proxy object with a templated conversion operator to figure out what function pointer type it was being asked to produce.¹ But…

The traditional Win32 data structure for holding a date/time is the FILETIME. How do you interoperate between this and the C++ clocks like std::system_clock and winrt::clock? When C++ introduced the concept of clocks in C++11, it did not require clocks to have any particular epoch. In C++20, the…

When GHC knows that two types have the same run-time representation, it allows you to use coerce to go from a value of one to a value of the other in a safe and cost-free way. Primarily, the opportunity to coerce arises from the use of newtype, where the new type is guaranteed to have the same…

videoHistory In Stalin’s home city in Georgia, generations clash over his legacy 20 minutes videoArchitecture Steep climbs lead to sacred spaces carved high into the cliffs of Ethiopia 9 minutes videoHistory In the face of denial, this film uncovers the hidden scars of Indonesia’s 1998 riots 21…

천일야사(채널A) - 호조판서 정홍순 (링크) 여러분은 재무팀에 대해 어떤 이미지를 가지고 계신가요? ‘전문가 집단이다’, ‘싸가지가 없다’, ‘협조가 안 된다.’, ‘앉아서 일해서 편하겠다’, ‘평생 그걸로 먹고 살 수 있어서 부럽다’, ‘회사 편이다’, ‘깐깐하다’ 등이 일반적인 이미지가 아닐까 싶습니다. 조직에 반드시 필요한 집단이지만, 이래저래 잔소리꾼처럼 느껴질 때도 있죠. 그러다 보니 이런저런 업무적 고충이 발생하기도 합니다. 조선의 기획재정부, 호조(戶曹 : 조선 시대에, 육조 가운데 호구, 공부, 전량(田糧),…

in Animation, Music | October 2nd, 2025 Leave a Comment While report­ing on the Euro­vi­sion Song Con­test, the New York­er’s Antho­ny Lane “asked a man named Sep­po, from the sev­en-hun­dred-strong Euro­vi­sion Fan Club of Nor­way, what he loved about Euro­vi­sion. ‘Broth­er­hood of man,’ he said —…

Image: Alex McMurdo Author Lucy McMurdo picks 10 highlights from her new book Battersea and Clapham in 50 Buildings. Battersea and Clapham have been in existence for hundreds of years. In line with much of the capital, however, they grew dramatically in the 19th century. They therefore boast…

Rust’s pattern matching feels simple enough: match on enums, destructure tuples, handle Option and Result. I stuck with these basics for months because, well, they work. But there’s a whole world of pattern techniques I wasn’t using. Once I discovered what’s actually possible, I kicked myself for…

TL;DR We explore the internal structure of Rust's Vec, expecting to find simple ptr, len, and capacity fields. Instead, we uncover a series of nested types, each adding a layer of safety and abstraction on top of a raw pointer (*const u8). This deep dive reveals that Vec is built from components…

videoBiology Dive deep into an egg cell to see how ageing reboots when a new life begins 2 minutes videoMathematics After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour 20 minutes videoAnimals and humans One man’s quest to save an orphaned squirrel, as narrated by David…

Definition Definition Did you know? Synonyms Example Sentences Word History Rhymes Entries Near Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In atone verb ə-ˈtōn atoned; atoning Synonyms of atone intransitive verb : to make amends : to…

The aim of science is to illuminate the mysteries of nature and discover the elemental truths pulsating sublime and indifferent beneath the starry skin of the universe. The aim of art is to give us a language for wresting meaning from the truth and living with the mystery. Creativity in both is a…

in Music, Nature | October 1st, 2025 Leave a Comment Sta­lac­tites hang tight to the ceil­ing, and sta­lag­mites push up with might from the floor: this is a mnemon­ic device you may once have learned, but chances are you haven’t had much occa­sion to remem­ber it since. Still, it would sure­ly be…