Joe Petviashvili

“For the superstitious, a disadvantage to this format is that every month includes a Friday the 13th, and this date occurs thirteen times every year.”

“"You are not expected to understand this" was intended as a remark in the spirit of "This won't be on the exam," rather than as an impudent challenge.”

Quake 3 is a great place to start for developers wanting to look into commercial AI. It’s certainly not a trivial implementation, but it’s probably as simple as you can make a fully featured AI engine and ship it in more...

Voting ballot from 10 April 1938. The ballot text reads "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf more...

“we have found a possible biochemical scar, present within living animals, that links Earth's greatest mass extinction to a single substance: hydrogen sulfide (H2S).”

“the first spam ever”

“build your own fully functional Enigma machine.”

“the family-unfriendly image of a fish-woman spreading her tails is on its way out.”

“The network of links between peasants who farmed a region of small region of south west France called Lot between 1260 and 1340 have been reconstructed”

"I was stunned," Schipke says. "It was like finding a picture of Bill Gates in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about more...

how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley

“The C wire went back to the exchange and through all the electromechanical relays involved in setting up a call. If anything went wrong, or if either partner terminated the call, then the C wire was grounded. Grounding the C more...

“Deep inside this mound there is an ex-to-be-very-secret Russian neutrino lab. It belongs to the Russian Nuclear Research Center and was build to explore the neutrino particle properties.”

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar or an activist. I am more of an eye-witness. I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. more...