InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
Read moreAre Engineers Prepared for the Emerging Agentic AI Software Development World?
Agentic AI software development is revolutionizing low-code and no-code platform capabilities. Reports indicate a significant rise in AI-assisted coding among developers. As AI agents become more autonomous, traditional coding may decline, posing questions about the future roles of software engineers and enhancing business capabilities. The post Are Engineers Prepared for
Read moreFormulating eight queens as a SAT problem
The Boolean satisfiability problem is to determine whether there is a way to assign values to variables in a set of Boolean formulas to make the formulas hold [1]. If there is a solution, the next task would be to enumerate the solutions. You can solve the famous eight queens
Read moreSpecial solutions to the eight queens problem
There are 92 ways to place eight queens on a chessboard so that no queen is attacking any other. These fall into 12 equivalence classes. The 92 solutions are all rotations and reflections of these 12 basic solutions. If you think about the previous numbers a minute, you might wonder
Read moreHow to turn on Lockdown Mode for your iPhone and Mac
Apple is known for prioritizing privacy and security, but there are additional measures you can turn to if you feel you need them. iPhones, iPads, and Macs have what's known as a Lockdown Mode that takes protecting your data to a whole new level. It's clear that this isn't for
Read moreThe non-attacking bishops problem
How many bishops can you place on a chessboard so that no bishop is attacking any other bishop? For a standard 8 × 8 chessboard the answer is 14. In general, for an n × n chessboard the answer is 2n − 2. Here’s one way to place the maximum
Read moreSorting Roman numerals
This morning I wrote about the frequencies of names for popes and kings. This involved sorting strings with Roman numerals since it’s common for popes and kings to have Roman numerals after their names. Something that surprised me was that sorting Roman numerals alphabetically roughly sorts them in numerical order,
Read moreLeaked document reveals more about Eufy’s first smart display
A leaked brochure shared to Reddit reveals more details about Eufy’s first smart display. | Image: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/eufy/comments/1k5dfbj/embrace_our_brandnew_allinone_smart_display_e10/">Reddit</a> A brochure shared on Reddit provides new details on Eufy’s first smart display. The Eufy Smart Display E10 hasn’t been officially announced by Anker yet, but it’s already received FCC certification and
Read moreFrequency of names of English monarchs
After I wrote the code to make the bar graph of papal names for the previous post, I decided to reuse the code to make a similar graph for monarchs of England. Just as there is some complication in counting papal names, there are even more complications in counting names
Read moreUsing AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns
Ben Popper chats with CTO Abby Kearns about how Alembic is using composite AI and lessons learned from contract tracing and epidemiology to help companies map customer journeys and understand the ROI of their marketing spend. Ben and Abby also talk about where open-source models have the edge and the
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