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MIT professor Peter Shor gives advice to aspiring computer scientists in a throwback video shared by MIT_CSAIL.

MIT CSAIL shares a beginner's guide to statistics, providing foundational educational content for data science and AI.

Sean Carroll discusses fundamental concepts of the universe in a full-length interview, covering topics in physics and cosmology.

A browsable collection of strange and involuntary things the human body does, such as ASMR, brain freeze, and call of the void, with descriptions and prevalence data.

An interactive web-based simulation that sets the speed of light to 5 km/h, allowing users to experience relativistic effects like length contraction and time dilation in a walking-paced environment.

A comprehensive free Rust programming guide with over 170 chapters and an integrated practice environment, designed for beginners and created by sunface.

LangChain announces Deep Agents Code (dcode), an open source coding agent that works with any model and offers control for teams, alongside a free course on LangChain Academy for enterprise implementation.

An open-source interactive 3D anatomy explorer built with React and Three.js, featuring 2,234 selectable meshes and anatomical systems for educational visualization.

The post explains how MCP and A2A protocols complement each other for AI agent communication and promotes an AI Engineering Bootcamp.

An educational article explaining the fundamentals of computer memory architecture, including memory hierarchy, CPU cache design, and SSD internals.

This article lists five DIY robot projects, including an arm, a rover, a self-balancing robot, an ACT policy-trained robot, and a line follower, with details on parts, calibration, and tuning techniques.

A tweet sharing a video that explains reinforcement learning through the example of Microduck learning to walk, featuring a music arrangement by Antoine Pirrone.

This post announces the free release of the second chapter of the book 'Logic for Programmers' on predicate logic, along with the book's availability in print.

The tweet shares free code from the book 'Machine Learning in Finance: From Theory to Practice', which integrates machine learning with quantitative finance for data modeling and financial decision-making.

Pollen Robotics releases Microduck, an open-source biped humanoid robot with a sim2real pipeline, enabling enthusiasts to train behaviors using reinforcement learning and potentially accelerating innovation in robotics.

The article explains the PageRank algorithm in simple terms, demonstrating how its core principles could have been independently invented and providing a basic Python implementation.

This article is an educational piece explaining the Transformer architecture, its core components like self-attention and multi-head attention, and its significance in modern AI, as part of a 30-day inference series.

This article explains the history and function of transistors, starting from electric relays and vacuum tubes, emphasizing their pivotal role in enabling modern electronics and computing.

The author implemented a simplified, educational version of watermarking for language models based on SynthID-Text, sharing the code on GitHub after being inspired by Anthropic's announcement.

Google expert Antonio Gulli has released a book on agent design, available as open source on GitHub. It includes 21 chapters and 7 appendices, with runnable Jupyter code, and all royalties are donated to Save the Children.