The 75 Greatest Guitarists of the 21st Century

Good guitar playing doesn’t always mean virtuostic technique or culturally relevant riffs. It’s about telling a story with ...
IEEE

Field-Distributed $\Phi$-OTDR Through Dissemination of Narrowlinewidth Light and Optically Synchronized Proxy Sources

Abstract: Distributed acousto-optic sensing is performed with a centralized narrow-linewidth reference light source, which optically locks an auxiliary “proxy” source at the field-distributed ...
IEEE

Demonstration of a 1-Tb/s Coherent Receiver Using Silicon Photonic Wavelength Demultiplexed $90^{\circ}$ Optical Hybrid

Abstract: We demonstrate an 8-λ 200 GHz-grid dense wavelength division multiplexing coherent receiver using a chip-scale 90° optical hybrid cascaded with four Macher-Zehnder Interferometer lattice ...
CNET

I Replaced Microsoft 365 With This Free Alternative

In addition to being free and open-source, LibreOffice offers other benefits, like more document privacy than Microsoft 365 ...
TechCrunch

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...
The New York Times

How Mississippi Transformed Its Schools From Worst to Best

Since 2013, Mississippi has skyrocketed on national tests, while blue states lag. What is it doing right? By Sarah Mervosh Photographs by Rory Doyle Reporting from Hazlehurst, Miss. and Jackson, Miss.
GitHub

A multipurpose and versatile launcher / picker for Hyprland

Various providers: Desktop, Unicode, Emoji, Math, Font ... Speedy: Fast, multi-threaded fuzzy searching Daemon by default: instant opening of the launcher Entry frequency caching: commonly used ...