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vren··on Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
Are you having coffee with milk? Casein/whey allergies affect a single-digit number of the population and can lead to feelings of sluggishness. Try black/almond/oat/etc.
vren··on Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
Depending on how much more accurate they are than an IMU (mems or gyroscope based) - you might see them have a very real and significant effect in submarine navigation, especially for drones.
vren··on 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code
Optical character recognition... Has been pretty widespread tech since ~2016 or so.
vren··on Lines of code that changed everything (2019)
ROS-1 still has quite a lot of functionality written in and accessible from lisp (c++ and python are the major languages nowadays). irobot was founded by alums of the MIT AGI lab, which used lisp extensively.

I suspect that's why lisp is in there at all! It's very likely python/cpp nowadays though.