We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

I read a novel where the rules for inheriting witchcraft resembles the real-world gene drive, so I developed a simulation and queried 86 million genealogy profiles to see how witchcraft would spread in real life.

An in-depth look at the process that overhauls every single wheel, motor, brake, axel, wire and door on every car in the New York City system.

For the past 6 months, I’ve been working on GPT Pilot ( to understand how much we can really automate coding with AI, so I wanted to share our learnings so far and how far it’s able to go. When I s…

Introduces the Universal Serial Bus covering the various chapters of the spec and what is required to be read.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”), Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently issued a proposed rule aimed at preventing foreign actors from utilizing U.S. Infrastructure as a Service (“IaaS”) products (i.e., cloud computing services) to…

The agency released a unified "practical" guidance for respiratory viruses.

Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.

Google's success derives in large part from its PageRank algorithm, which ranks the importance of web pages according to an eigenvector of a weighted link matrix. Analysis of the PageRank formula provides a wonderful applied topic for a linear algebra course.…

Computers are a tool that you can use or be used by. I have written about my tool-taming tactics before, including blocking distracting websites in my hosts file. My “checking” function is the natural evolution of that tactic.


It implements the core functionality…

Open Office Sucks

A month after bills went up, PG&E announced its profits for 2023 surged to over $2.2 billion, a jump of almost 25%. But the utility says the two are not connected.

How to hide binary data and messages in packs of playing cards

In an unprecedented move, US Special forces troops will be permanently stationed in Taiwan, Republic of China. According to Taiwan's United Daily News (UDN),