Mathematicians in British universities are now being asked to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum. This autumn, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) – an independent charity which reviews university courses – launched a consultation that urged…

Yet another train getting across France-Spain border, yet another post.

In the last few weeks before the sabbatical I was working on bringing up AArch64 support for native code generation in Luau. Before that my interaction with this architecture was limited…

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WASHINGTON, D.C.— Dennis M. Kelleher, Co-founder, President and CEO, issued the following statement regarding the CFTC’s failure to properly regulate or supervise FTX, which was registered and licensed by the CFTC and which had hired innumerable former CFTC…

A more precise timeline now shows Polynesian ancestors of Māori first settled in the North Island before expanding south and then retreating again when the climate changed.

ancient Egyptian tomb artifact

A group of researchers from the Network Research Institute of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Japan) led by Georg Rademacher in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs (USA), Prysmian Group (Prysmian, France, and the…

Apple’s groundbreaking safety service Emergency SOS via satellite becomes available to customers in the US and Canada starting today.

The Rimac Nevera has set a top speed of 412kph (258mph), making it the fastest electric production car in the world.

Etymology is fun!

Here is the text of the talk I gave at the Go SF meeting in June, 2012. This is a personal talk. I do not speak for anyone else on the Go...

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Two new U.S. studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%.