Don Knuth's MIP, 64 years later(nathanbrixius.wordpress.com)

70 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 43 comments

What Is a Schur Decomposition? (2022)(nhigham.com)

82 points by vector_spaces 2 years ago | 22 comments

Rediscovering Quaternions(jasonfantl.com)

107 points by jfantl 1 year ago | 60 comments

Vector Meson Dominance(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

50 points by chmaynard 7 months ago | 6 comments

Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces(neilmadden.blog)

56 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 22 comments

What Is a Hessenberg Matrix?(nhigham.com)

23 points by jjgreen 2 years ago | 2 comments

Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)(subanima.org)

320 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 225 comments

A SubAnima article explaining at several levels of explanation why honeybees die after stinging, framed around Feynman's point about 'why' questions.

The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing(computerwebsite.net)

596 points by arithmoquine 2 years ago | 56 comments

An illustrated explainer of the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) algorithm for determining whether two convex shapes overlap.

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)

384 points by epestr 12 days ago | 362 comments

Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

So you want to use OpenRouter?(mmoustafa.com)

692 points by player85 1 month ago | 189 comments

Blog post by the developer of Olly, an iMessage AI assistant, describing pitfalls and lessons learned running open models through OpenRouter's varied providers.

Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)(undeadly.org)

556 points by zdw 3 years ago | 239 comments

OpenBSD Journal post announcing Damien Miller's commit adding keystroke timing obfuscation with chaff keystrokes to OpenSSH's ssh client.