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Million PDFs: Building a Modern Document Infrastructure with Rust and Typst

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...

Hidden molecular code in tosyl groups directs pillararene formation and assembly, study finds

A research team at Mahidol University, Thailand, has discovered that tosyl groups, long regarded as routine synthetic handles ...

Toward experiment-guided AlphaFold: Researchers overcome AI tool's single-conformation limitation

The AI-based program AlphaFold predicts a protein's 3D structure with remarkable accuracy. However, it tends to reduce heterogeneous structures to a single dominant conformation, or shape, and ...
ArchDaily

Function Follows Form: Designing Adaptive Buildings That Outlast Their Original Use

Delve into the Open Building approach, promoting long-term stewardship and adaptability in architecture amid today's housing ...
techtimes

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

DeepReinforce today released Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source coding models built around a mechanism most RL-trained agents avoid: the model itself writes the training harness that guides its own ...
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Never-Ending Race to Build the World’s Tallest Structure

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...