Back in 2018, now five years ago, we published a blog post describing our 400+ node Elasticsearch cluster. In that post we brought up an important topic: So far, we have elected to not upgrade the cluster. We would like to, but so far there have been more…

The U.S. is one of the most expensive countries in the world for building transit, according to the Transit Costs Project. A research group at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management is working to understand why.

The Fateful Journey
by Sean Ley, Development Officer

The final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald began November 9, 1975 at the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1, Superior, Wisconsin. Captain Ernest M. McSorley had loaded her with 26,116 long tons of…

Harry Marr — Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Co-founded Dependabot, previously at GitHub, Monzo, and GoCardless.

A Mastodon Server for Internet Archive employees and Role Accounts (Announcements)

Industry is already using data to remake culture. To reverse the tide—to make culture more equitable—we need to decode that data for ourselves.

After my last post, which hypothesized a relationship between the total size of a program and the bugs in it, I was led to this paper, via this blog post, via this comment. This, by the way, is my...

A general purpose computer program and special purpose apparatus for matching strings of alphanumeric characters are disclosed. The algorithm involved makes use of a current-character search list (augmented for all alternative characters) and a nextcharacter…

Communications Physics - To which extent and how do jazz musicians synchronize their timing to create swing? By analyzing jazz musical recordings and carrying out psychoacoustical experiments, the...

In the summer of 2020, I took a 3 months sabbatical in order to finish an album. The experience deeply transformed how I make music – I now know I can make ...

Azure as an external process source for psDoom-ng. Contribute to secureworks/chaosbernie development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am a Ph.D. student at a university in Germany.
After about four years of research, my supervisor told me to write my thesis.
After I sent him my thesis, he told me that he now thinks my work did ...

Freeport LNG said a tweet about cracks in pipes at its Texas export terminal, which led to US natural gas futures plummeting Friday, contained false information, as did a letter stating the terminal would restart soon.