While working on the Vesuvius Challenge  to read the Herculaneum scrolls, I kept encountering early writing systems—not just as symbols, but as systems . The Rosetta Stone is the most famous example, yet I realized I had understood it mostly as a metaphor (“a Rosetta Stone for X”) rather than as an engineered artifact. The stone contains a decree issued in 196 BC affirming the cult of Ptolemy V. The content itself is administrative and unremarkable. What matters is how it is

I’ve been thinking about a simple question: What is our most regular, physically measurable contact with extraterrestrial material? Most people would say "meteorites." But that’s the wrong scale. The dominant input isn’t dramatic rocks—it’s dust. Earth is constantly ingesting space. Depending on the measurement method, we accrete roughly 20,000–40,000 tonnes  of cosmic material per year. A more conservative estimate for micrometeorites alone is ~5,200 tonnes/year. This refram

Title:  The Anomaly in December We tend to model the solar system as finished clockwork—a static, predictable machine where the major events happened billions of years ago. Every December, the Geminid meteor shower suggests this model is wrong. The Geminids are currently the strongest meteor shower of the year, yet they are an astronomical anomaly. They violate the standard rules for how meteor showers work, and they do so on a timescale that feels less geological and more hu

There's something nolstagic about department stores. It was such a vibe. With malls kind of dying and rise of ecommerce, the whole brick and morter everything store might have been a flash in the pan. One of my favourite christmas movies is home alone- christmas in new york. So many iconic spots, all explored through lens of kid in a candy store. Sometimes I'll imagine a movie and it just feels like it should or already exists. I had to double check because this franchise see

Wanted to get a better sense of what's happening during the meteor showers. Apparently this isn't actually accurate - plays fast and loosee with some of the scaling or placement. But gives a general sense of timing/action.

Show HN: The Wiki Times – Read Any Article at Your Grade Level (K-8) I built a tool that rewrites any article to match your reading level by intelligently swapping vocabulary while preserving meaning and layout. Live demo:   The Problem Nobody Talks About 54% of American adults read below a 6th-grade level, and low literacy affects 130 million adults in the U.S. Despite this, almost all online content is written at college level or higher. News sites, Wikipedia, Substack post

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While working on the herculean scroll challenge, I came across various examples of early human writing. One of the most famous was the rosetta stone. I had always heard of it and was generally aware of it but actually knew almost nothing about it. I was probably more familiar with the language platform than the historical artifact. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests. It is one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-o

I've been toying with various zodiac related apps for the last few months and have found myself using this one daily. It's a world clock tracker displayed with various cities and the related zodiac information. Includes the chinese zodiac animals along with their elements and direction.

This reader has better functioning read along audio but the UI/design is more basic. also made with bolt.new

Tried out online coding platform bolt.new and finally got around to making an epub reader I've been thinking about. Their one-shot prompt coding works surprisingly well and I ended up with a few variations I actually use. This one has the design most fleshed out but is missing some library functionality and the audio can be buggy. But besides that- it's an easy audiobook creator from any text source.

Materials Simulator Asked bolt to generate a dragon model to test out various materials and it produced this abstract shape. Uses...

From october 2023 to december 31, I was spending almost all of my time working on this scroll challenge.

Simulated light for various times of the day Updated colouring for terrain and GUI

Drive down real streets race anywhere in the world Played around with the new API that Google released in partnership with cesium. I've...

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By Suqin Ao and Lucy Lu Abstract The distribution of prime numbers exhibits a tension between randomness and rigid arithmetic structure. In this paper, we utilize a modified Sieve of Eratosthenes to explore the connection between two of the most famous problems in number theory: the Twin Prime Conjecture and the Goldbach Conjecture. By analyzing the sieving density, we demonstrate that the count of twin primes and the count of Goldbach partitions share a fundamental structura

This is the accompanying code to the our paper "On the Prime Pairs". Each section pertains to a specific equation or operation. This serves as a way to illustrate the function of each part of the proof. Link to colab On the Prime Pairs By Suqin Ao and Lucy Lu Abstract By using a new method with Sieves, we can find all kinds of prime pairs including the twin primes, and prove that for any natural number k , there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by 2k . Also, b