Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset. When they profiled their micropython code, they found that OR...

The year was 2036. OpenAI had finally done it. After decades of press releases, quarterly existential criese, and machine learning papers so esoteric they made Finnegans Wake read like PopSci, they’d finished gpt-6z (revision 3) - a perfect, autonomous general intelligence. It’s...

Prairie Telephone (1952-1995) was a regional telecommunications company that operated in Alberta, Canada, primarily serving the Drumheller Valley region and surrounding rural communities. The company was notable for its rapid expansion during the 1970s and its innovative approach to rural...