Swallowing is a complex act requiring precise coordination of the mouth, throat, and voice box. After a stroke, damage to the brain's motor cortex can disrupt swallowing-related neural commands, leaving patients unable to clear food or liquid from their throat safely.

I’ve been exploring the world of AI and ML lately, and I can’t help but feel like I’m standing at the edge of a fascinating cliff. You know, that thrilling moment when you realize you’re about to leap into a whole new realm of possibilities? But here’s the kicker: it seems like many of us are staring into an abyss that’s just a tad too expensive to jump into. I’m talking about the affordability c…

Human-in-the-loop (HITL) in AI means keeping a person involved in an automated system's decisions — approving, editing, or interrupting what an AI does — instead of letting it run fully on its own. For AI agents, human-in-the-loop is the practice of pausing the agent at chosen points so a human can review or steer an action before it takes effect. The hard part isn't adding a human; it's making s…

When people are close-both physically and emotionally-their heart rates begin to align, rising and falling together. Could such cardiac alignment be used as a way to measure social engagement and connection in everyday settings? Hanlu He and colleagues used data collected by 72 students visiting New York City as part of an audio engineering competition.

Random-pattern skin flaps (RPSFs) receive blood mainly from small subcutaneous vessels rather than a defined axial vessel, leaving them vulnerable to ischemia and hypoxia after surgery.

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a miniature dental robot that could one day automatically prepare teeth for crowns.

When my agent started returning incoherent responses on the morning of April 17, I was on a bus on a mobile hotspot. I had no way to tell whether it had been hijacked, prompt-injected, hit a framework bug, or just broken under its own weight. Containment-first was the only correct move there — pull the bot offline, get to a trusted network, then diagnose. The first post in this series told that s…

Array join() It combines all the elements of an array into a single string.It allows us to specify our own separator between the elements. const myArr = [ " HTML " , " CSS " , " JS " ]; function joinDemo ( arr , separator ){ let result = "" ; for ( let i = 0 ; i < arr . length ; i ++ ){ result += arr [ i ]; if ( i < arr . length - 1 ){ result += separator ; } } return result ; } console . log ( j…

The U.S. government just set a hard deadline for post-quantum cryptographic migration: 2031 Two executive orders signed in 2025 require all federal agencies to replace classical signature schemes with NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms. The mandate covers every system that touches federal data. Bitcoin is not on the list. That is exactly the problem. This post breaks down what the threat a…

Over a month ago I posted about my agent storing its own hallucinations as facts. The fix I was halfway through designing did not survive contact with the comment thread. The thread added points I didn't think about and rearchitected and improved the v2 design — seven rules I'm now building the memory layer around — and an honest snapshot of what's actually built vs. what's still on paper. The 30…

Wildfire smoke can trigger breathing problems and flare-ups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet many people are not receiving the trusted health information they need to stay safe, according to a new study in the May 2026 issue of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

Not much is known about Starfall, SpaceX's new delivery system, but an assessment published in May revealed its intended purpose

Series context: This is a follow-up to How I Automate Parts of My SDLC with AI Agents . Earlier posts covered the pipeline overview, the Validate phase, agent state management, and rate-limit resilience. This one is about the part that holds the whole thing together: how I know whether a change to my harness actually made it better . The Question I Couldn't Answer I changed a prompt. The next run…

Google's Manifest V3 deadline is here. If you have a Chrome extension still running on MV2, you're on borrowed time. I migrated PR Focus (and two other extensions) from MV2 to MV3. Nothing broke catastrophically — but several things surprised me. Here's what I learned, so you don't have to figure it out the hard way. The big changes 1. Background pages → Service workers This is the biggest shift.…

Real-time data pipelines are becoming a normal part of application architecture. Product pages need fresh stock counts, order status screens need fast reads, dashboards need recent transactional state, and background services often need to react as soon as data changes. Postgres is usually the source of truth, but many applications still keep a second read model in Redis for low-latency access. T…