Berkson's paradox, also known as Berkson's bias, collider bias, or Berkson's fallacy, is a result in conditional probability and statistics which is often found to be counterintuitive, and hence a veridical paradox. It is a complicating factor arising in…

I’ve been using Apache Kafka for about a year now and I’ve wanted a desktop client from the beginning. I couldn’t find one I liked – the best I’ve found is Confluent’s Cloud UI, but that’s neither a desktop app, nor is it a great experience1 – so, a couple…

From 2014 to 2021, Kite was a startup using AI to help developers write code. We have stopped working on Kite, and are no longer supporting the Kite software. Thank you to everyone who used our product, and thank you to our team members and investors who…

Recently I approved a pull request from a colleague, that had the following description: “That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better im…

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The observability problem - Why is the system exhibiting this behaviour?

Small backyard houses get a lot of attention as a solution to the housing crisis, but it’s a different idea in theory than it is when you try to put it into practice.

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the…

indigenous man living alone in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest

Le ministère de l'Éducation nationale confirme ne pas vouloir des offres de Microsoft Office 365 et de Google Workspace dans les écoles.

Publish your weird ideas in public. You never know who’s listening.

Even its inventors didn’t fully understand the point-contact transistor

The gambling industry and its allies got their way with lawmakers after showering them with donations, gifts and dubious arguments.

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MS-DOS game programmers had to deal with several limitations. This article goes over some of these obstacles and explores how we used the DOS/4GW extender & protected mode to unleash the power of 32-bit DOS.

OpenZFS on OS X has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

The identified guiding principles can inform the development of good machine learning practices to promote safe, effective, and high-quality medical devices.