I have a friend named Gerry. I didn’t have much choice about being Gerry’s friend. If Gerry decides you’re going to be his friend, you don’t have much choice about it. He calls. He invites. He emails. If you don’t answer, if you can’t make it, if you make plans and then cancel, he doesn’t care. He…

See all topics Email Link Copied! Over the next five years, New York City will welcome two new momentous spaces for the arts, both along Manhattan’s iconic Fifth Avenue, some 40 blocks apart. The first is an airy new $550-million wing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary…

Let’s start with sharks were many of us started: with the film that made millions of people afraid to go in the water. In 1975 the shark had long been a mythic figure, the ultimate terror of the deep, but Stephen Spielberg’s adaptation of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel captured the popular imagination.…

Ever since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open approach to building AI that allows model-making to be distributed across the globe. Prime Intellect, a startup…

Taylor Eastman bringing the youth and athleticism to the USSCA Women’s North American Championship, hiking to an overall win. William Crawford / Harbor Pictures Company Lake Wawasee, Indiana, is no stranger to Sunfish history. The Wawasee Yacht Club has been hosting sailors for decades, and when the…

Natural Sciences October 8, 2025 A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of…

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The “I drink your milkshake” is one of the most unbreakable scenes—finales. When some people hear Daniel Day-Lewis’ name, it’s the first thing that comes to mind. Others experience a fever dream that lingers long after they have left the theater. This is one of those cinematic moments that will…

What happens when you say “Hello” to ChatGPT? Such a simple query might seem trivial, but making it possible across billions of sessions requires immense scale. While OpenAI reveals little information about its operations, we’ve used the scraps we do have to estimate the impact of ChatGPT—and of the…

Table of Contents Remove ads Python 3.14 nears release with new features in sight, and Django 6.0 alpha hints at what’s next for the web framework. Several PEPs have landed, including improvements to type annotations and support for the free-threaded Python effort. Plus, the Python Software…

Everyone is worried that AI will replace programmers. They’re missing the real revolution: AI is turning everyone into one. I’ve been noticing a new pattern: people with deep domain knowledge but no coding experience are now building their own tools. Armed with AI assistants, they can create custom…

Python has long relied on pip as its standard package manager, but a blazing-fast alternative is now changing the landscape. uv is a Rust-based package manager that aims to transform Python dependency management with unmatched performance and simplicity. In this guide, you will learn everything you…

Django: Introducing django-watchfiles, for more efficient runserver autoreloading 2025-09-22Django’s runserver automatically reloads when you change Python files. Without this autoreloading feature, you’d need to manually restart the server every time you made a code change. However, the default…

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Posted by gooseva on March 17, 2011 · 1 Comment Congee Village Cuisine: Cantonese Neighborhood: East Village Price: $30-40 per person including drinks Phone: (212) 941-1818 Address: 100 Allen Street, NY, NY 10002 Congee Village has been on Jen’s wish list for a while, so when a friend from Ohio was…

Posted on September 09, 2024 proctrace is a profiler that runs on top of bpftrace (for now) and traces the execution of a process tree rooted at a user-provided command. Right now it records the following events and the time between them: fork exec exit setsid setpgid In the future I'd like to…

Maeve Was a Language Model: The Scene in Westworld That Predicted GPT Daniel Manu 5 min read· Jun 19, 2025 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size “Pair what with me?” — the moment Maeve uttered those words in Westworld (Season 1, Episode 6: “The Adversary”), something clicked. Not for…

I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful…

What the Internet Was Like in 1999 In 1999, Microsoft vanquishes Netscape in the browser war, Google starts to show up competing search engines, Blogger launches, and Napster loudly arrives to shake up our culture. By | September 3, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, Yearly Reviews, 1999 1999 Napster software…

written on September 29, 2025 “I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code” Three months ago I said that AI changes everything. I came to that after plenty of…

In my youth I was under the all too common delusion that Great Men were to thank for most of society's innovations. Eventually I noticed that the supposedly greatest men of our modern times got to their position of influence and power largely by taking things. It's harder to outright take material…

Loneliness increases death risk by 32% but we know how to fix it. Real solutions that cut loneliness in half, from mindfulness to community programs that actually work. Faruk Alpay 6 min read·Just now -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Abstract Chronic loneliness increases mortality…

Shall I compare thee to a summer's data? Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks Latest Claude model beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests. Benj Edwards – Sep 29, 2025 6:10 pm | 4 The Claude Sonnet 4.5 logo. Credit: Anthropic The Claude Sonnet 4.5 logo.…

29th September 2025 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 today, with a very bold set of claims: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It’s the strongest model for building complex agents. It’s the best model at using computers. And it shows substantial gains in reasoning and math.…

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve worked on legacy systems that were written by other people, perhaps decades ago, you’ll recognise this phenomenon. Before…

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…

Data Science Web Development Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? While other programming languages come and go, Python has stood the test of time and firmly established itself as a top choice for developers of all levels, from beginners to seasoned professionals. Whether you’re working on intelligent…

First Week at the Recurse Center Sep 28, 2025 Context: I arrived in Brooklyn last week to start a 12 week program at the Recurse Center (RC). Read more about how it works here. Everything is new; my routines, environment, habits, diet, etc. But for all the stress and uncertainty leading up to this,…