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Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Macro Journey…
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58.9% of the top 10,000 sites negotiate post-quantum TLS; 51.3% of SSH servers offer post-quantum key exchange. As of 2026-10-29, from 4 probes; signed readings, recomputable.
From Show HN
Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a participant afterwards, and learn that yeah, actually, doctors are not supposed to give you propophol as a general anesthetic if you have a soy allergy. Which is really good to fucking know. Which is why I…
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a (very technical) interactive guide to modeling neurons
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an interactive documentary on the mathematical majesty of viruses
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Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Observations of “snow flowers” made by microscope in Edo-era Japan.
From The Public Domain Review
Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.
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Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
Takafumi Miyanaga (宮永 崇史) - 大阪大学QIQB 量子コンピュータシステム開発者・研究者。OQTOPUSプロジェクト開発者。
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Image from Google StreetView August 2024 looking directly in the direction of the Eastbourne Stevenson Screen from 13 metres/ 44 feet distance. Tims Channon’s original review of Eastbourne was the longest and most detailed of all those he published. It pre-dated the relocation of the screen to its…
From Kagi Small Web
Explore data and build apps seamlessly with marimo, a next-generation Python notebook.
From Awesome Explorables
A detailed interactive explanation on how the Global Positioning System works.
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Explore data and build apps seamlessly with marimo, a next-generation Python notebook.
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An explorable blog post about entropy, with sheep.
From Awesome Explorables
First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.
From The Public Domain Review
A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook.
From Tiny Tools Directory
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